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Historical Event on 3/17/1991

The first Indian Remote Sensing Satellite IRS-IA completes three years of successful operation. (18-3-91).

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/28/1996Press Council of India to set up a 5-member committee headed by Chairman P.B. Sawant to inquire into the attack on journalists outside the New Delhi residence of Kanshi Ram.
9/14/1803Lord Lake was captured Delhi.
9/27/1989Hemanta Kumar Mukherjee, noted playback singer and music director, died.
6/4/1955Ministry of Iron & Steel inaugurated.
12/17/1961Provocative action against our nationals in the vicinity of Anjadip Island and Portugal's belligerent attitude to the problems of its colonial possessions in this country, resulted in the Government of India's decision to liberate Goa, Daman and Diu. Operations were launched at night.
12/6/1987MiG-29, re-christened `Baaz', inducted into the Indian Air Force.
10/11/1991Resident Editor of Nagpur Times Ramnarayan Dube assassinated.
1/10/1987Sikh terrorists murder Punjab prison chief in Chandigarh.
6/13/1992Security scam: assets of three SBI officials attached.
7/9/1999Ashok Mitra (82), noted writer, academician and former bureaucrat, died in Calcutta.