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Historical Event on 1/31/1995
ISRO and Intelsat sign a $100 m 10-year-long agreement for leasing some of the capacity of the Indian-built INSAT-2E (scheduled for launch in 1997).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
| 3/3/1990 | JD-BJP coalition government in Gujarat, Chimanbhai Patel to become CM; Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra and Bhairon Singh Shekhewat of BJP to head the BJP-JD coalition government in Rajasthan. |
| 10/29/1992 | Komar Singh, the first Indian Ambassador to Israel, presented credentials to President Chain Herzog in Jerusalem. |
| 9/20/1996 | Arunachal Chief Minister Apang resigns and forms new party Arunachal Congress. |
| 8/20/1991 | India's Ambassador to Romania J.F.Ribeiro shot by Sikh extremists in Bucharest. |
| 12/1/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi concludes the first official visit to Japan by an Indian Prime Minister at Tokyo. |
| 6/18/1974 | Govinddas Seth, Hindi litterateur and politician, died. |
| 9/6/1657 | Shahjahan fell ill. His four sons Dara Shikoh, Suja, Aurangzeb and Murad advanced towards Delhi to capture the throne. |
| 3/20/1994 | Pakistan closes down its consulate in Bombay. |
| 5/30/1987 | Goa becomes the 25th state of India. |
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