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Historical Event on 7/22/1981
India's first experimental geo-stationary communication satellite 'Apple' started working which was launched on June 19, 1981.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/3/1905 | Sir Padampat Singhania, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur. |
| 3/5/1916 | Biju Patnaik, famous Oriya leader and Chief Minister, was born. |
| 5/10/1909 | Bellari Shammanna Keshvan, internationally famous librarian, was born. |
| 4/14/1963 | Maha Pandit Rahul Sanskrityayan, great Hindi writer, politician and professor, passed away at Darjeeling. |
| 10/3/1988 | Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh after 30 months of being held captive. |
| 3/25/1987 | Marxist-led alliance gets majority in Kerala and West Bengal elections . |
| 4/3/1912 | M. Varadarajan, educationist and author, was born at Tirupattur. |
| 12/17/1830 | Simon Bolivar, great dynamic leader and social reformer, died. |
| 12/17/1830 | Rumi, famous Muslim Sufi poet, was born. |
| 1/30/1948 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the spiritual leader of Indian independence, was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist. The 78-year-old Gandhi was shot at point-blank range as he was walking through a garden to a pergola, where he was to deliver his daily prayer meeting. |
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