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Historical Event on 6/19/1981

APPLE, India's first experimental geo-stationary telecommunication satellite having experimental communication satellite, successfully launched by European Ariane, Kourou, French Guiana. This is the first to be stabilized on 3 axes.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
6/6/1997Five killed and 17 injured in a bus explosion in Gurdaspur district of Punjab.
7/6/1992The centre decides to allow TV and Radio time slots for private producers.
4/26/1762Shyam Shastri, musician and a great artist of India, was born at Tiruvarur.
6/13/1927Henry C. K. ""Clan"" Petty-Fitzmaurice, Governor of India (1888-94), passed away at the age of 82.
7/20/1990GOI notifies restrictions on liberal import policy announced earlier. The restrictions will cut the import bill by about Rs. 1000 crore.
5/28/199613-day-old BJP-led minority coalition govt. headed by A.B. Vajpayee quits at the end of a two-day debate on a motion of confidence.
3/23/1947Lord Mountbatten was sent as a Viceroy to India who was designated to free India.
11/3/1999Harkishan Singh Surjeet donates property share to his party CPI(M).
7/14/1928Bedabrata Barua, educationist, social reformer and politician, was born.