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Historical Event on 3/21/1966
Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P3) placed into polar orbit. This carries remote sensing payload and an X-ray astronomy payload. Launched by third developmental flight of India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-D3) which is for launching 1,000-1,200 kg class of remote sensing satellites into polar sun-synchronous orbit. Still in service.
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| 9/19/1997 | Ambar Roy, Indian test batsman (1969-70), died in Calcutta. |
| 12/26/1991 | Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India. |
| 9/29/1725 | Robert Clive, one of the founders of British empire in India and diplomat, was born. |
| 9/1/1934 | Suniti Kumar Ghosh, cricket test umpire for two tests from 1988-89, was born in Bengal. |
| 11/19/1991 | Two national commissions on women set up. |
| 3/13/1958 | Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet, literateur and writer,died at the age of 80. |
| 1/5/1953 | Andhra University celebrated its silver jubilee. |
| 12/16/1999 | Likhiram Karve, Madhya Pradesh's Minister for Transport, is hacked to death by naxalites. |
| 5/16/1975 | Sikkim High Court was established at Gangtok for Sikkim territory. |
| 10/19/1888 | Namakkal Kavignar, Gandhian poet and painter, was born at Mohanur in Salem. |
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