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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.

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4/10/1760	Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, passed away at the age of 75.
1/27/1984	First unit of Atomic Energy Production Centre started at Kalpakkam.
2/3/1986	Pope John Paul II meets Mother Teresa at Calcutta.
5/2/1953	Declaration by the PM that India was opposed to joining any power-block in the event of another war.
4/10/1999	Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village.
5/31/1947	Gandhiji declares that peace must precede partition, and he would not be party to India's vivisection.
4/1/1976	Television was separated from radio, and Doordarshan Corporation was established.
8/2/2000	The Lok Sabha performs a ''hat-trick'' by setting off the process for the creation of three new states by passing the Jharkhand Bill.
11/29/1926	Prabhakar Narayan Padhye (Bhau Padhye), great journalist and litterateur, was born.
1/30/1999	Paes-Bhupathi stumbled in the doubles final losing to Patrick Rafter-Jonas Bjorkman in the Australian Open Tennis tournament.

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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.

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.