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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 |
| 6/22/1994 | L. V. Prasad, father of South Indian film industry, died. |
| 7/30/1883 | Badridas Goenka, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 4/13/1994 | United Arab Emirates lost to India in its first official ODI. |
| 8/3/1930 | Jai Prakash, educationist, was born at Jaunpur. |
| 6/18/1978 | The Karakoram Highway, linking Gilgit in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir with Sinkiang in China, is opened. |
| 7/28/1997 | 12 persons are killed and 69 injured as New Delhi-bound Karnataka Express rams Himsagar Express at Old Faridabad station level-crossing in Haryana. |
| 8/8/1911 | Following the end of a heavy monsoon, parts of India were hit by a cholera epidemic. |
| 3/21/1996 | PSLV-D3 launched successfully. |
| 3/1/1908 | Tata Iron & Steel Company was the first steel company to be established in India. |
| 7/29/1901 | Rudyard Kipling, the renowned author of stories and poems about colonial India and an unofficial spokesman for the British Empire, joined the rising chorus of criticism in regard to Britain's conduct in the increasingly unpopular Boer War. |
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