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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 |
| 7/3/1745 | Ranoji Shinde died. |
| 11/13/1917 | Vasantrao Banduji Patil, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 1/29/1979 | Tamil Nadu Expess, India's first Jumbo passenger train, was flagged off from New Delhi Railway Station for Madras. |
| 1/31/1963 | Peacock declared as National Bird of India. |
| 3/15/1931 | M.I.Mohammad Ghose, cricket test umpire for 8 tests from 1976-80, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
| 11/5/1892 | John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford. |
| 1/7/1997 | Jaspal Rana bags six gold medals in the men's standard pistol and air pistol and set two more records on the penultimate day of the National shooting. |
| 6/5/1966 | Indian rupee devalued by 36.5 percent. |
| 6/5/1966 | Chaitanya Maha Prabhu, vaishnav Sant, passed away. His mortal remains at Puri.(9/7or 29/6). |
| 12/1/1993 | World AIDS day. |
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