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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
6/17/1993Congress (I) working committee reaffirms its faith in Rao; BJP asks for PM's resignation .
2/27/1996Suresh Kalmadi, Minister of State for Railways, presents vote-on-account railway budget; 1995-96 Economic Survey shows 6.3\% growth in GDP; 20\% interim relief for newspaper employees announced by govt.
8/27/1870Sharmajivi Sangha was established in Calcutta by Sashipada Banerji.
9/15/1862Gaurishankar Hirachand Oza, famous historian, was born.
6/28/1975As a response to anti-government demonstrations, India imposes the toughest press censorship since independence.
3/17/1991The first Indian Remote Sensing Satellite IRS-IA completes three years of successful operation. (18-3-91).
1/23/1965Indian first alloy and steel plant in the public sector started in Durgapur; alloy and steel plant limited project started.
8/15/1947The Defence department becomes the Ministry of Defence under a Cabinet Minister. Each service was placed under its own Commander-in-Chief. Under the Constitution, the supreme command of the Armed Forces was vested with the President.
3/5/1919M.L. Kapoor, great industrialist, was born at Lahore.
10/10/1999Congress-NCP talks still on forming a Government in Maharashtra.