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Historical Event on 7/22/1981

India's first experimental geo-stationary communication satellite 'Apple' started working which was launched on June 19, 1981.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/2/1982Mohanlal Purushottamdas Sukhadia, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, freedom fighter, passed away. He was the Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 1954-1971. He introduced Panchayati Raj in Rajasthan and worked for its industrialisation also.
5/23/1996In second phase of elections in Kashmir valley, Anantnag and Baramulla parliamentary constituencies go to the polls.
1/19/1996Upendranath 'Ashk', noted Hindi literary figure known for his disputed writings, passed away.
11/7/1893Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionaries in India, passed away at the age of 37.
2/11/1942Jamnalal Bajaj, greatest iIndustrialist, social reformer, freedom fighter and Gandhiwadi, passed away.
11/22/1999V. S. Rama Devi and Vishnu Kant Shastri appointed the new Governors of Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh.
3/12/1911Daman Div Dayanand Balkrishna Bandodkar, first Chief Minister of Goa, was born.
4/3/1932Boycott of British goods was so widespread that 70\% of cotton products were now thought to have come from Japan.
6/25/1994Dinsha Pirosha Madan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, died.
10/5/1997Kiran Bedi, India's first woman police officer, was awarded the Joseph Beuys prize for her work in reforming the largest prison of the country.