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Historical Event on 8/30/1983

Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1B) launched. This was also a multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite, which served for more than its design life of seven years. It was launched by a US Space Shuttle.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/21/1971Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown.
11/1/1961First passenger Plane flight AVRO HS748.
5/12/1987Britain's HMS Hermes becomes Indian Navy's second aircraft carrier named INS Viraat.
6/20/1948Lord Mountbatten resigns as the Governor General of Indian Union.
4/24/1993IA's Delhi-Srinagar Boeing with 141 persons, hijacked by a Kashmiri militant lands, in Amritsar.
2/3/1997Major fire reduces Calcutta Book Fair to ashes.
11/11/1998India objects to Washington's discrimination in easing sanctions against New Delhi and Islamabad, clamped in the wake of the nuclear tests by the two countries.
6/24/1991Pranab Mukherjee appointed Dy. Chairman of the Planning Commission.
6/1/1933Fortnightly 'Bal Sanmitra' was published.
5/5/1955Indian parliament accept Hindu divorce.