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Historical Event on 3/21/1966

Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P3) placed into polar orbit. This carries remote sensing payload and an X-ray astronomy payload. Launched by third developmental flight of India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-D3) which is for launching 1,000-1,200 kg class of remote sensing satellites into polar sun-synchronous orbit. Still in service.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/12/1911Daman Div Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, first Chief Minister of Goa, was born.
5/26/1999IRS-P4(OCEANSAT) with an Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) and a Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer (MSMR) and two small satellites (KITSAT of Korea and TUBSAT of Germany) launched by PSLV-C2.
9/28/1954137 people were killed when an Express Train fell from a flood-damaged bridge near East of Hydrabad.
3/3/1989Gwal Pahari in Haryana switched on the solar energy centre of the first pilot 50 kilowatt solar power plant.
1/30/1994Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets.
9/4/1980Second Commonwealth Regional Heads of Government Conference in New Delhi.
8/18/1990President R Venkataraman presented the colours to the Officers Training Academy in recognition of their services to the Nation.
12/19/1988Umashankar Joshi, Gyanpeeth awardee and Gujrathi poet, died.
8/8/1984P.T. Usha at Los Angeles sets record for 400m H. (Women) in 55.42.
6/26/1955Poland and India affirm Panchsheel.