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Historical Event on 12/28/1995
Third Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1C), carring advanced remote sensing cameras was launched by Russian Molniya launch vehicle. It is still in service.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/21/1997 | J. M. Lyngdoh appointed Election Commissioner. |
| 12/8/2000 | EC nod for Paswans's party to be known as Lok Janshakti Party. |
| 1/7/1994 | Malhotra Committee recommends privatisation and foreign participation of LIC and GIC. |
| 5/18/1998 | India talks with the US on the nuclear tests. |
| 3/2/1996 | Malabar University (Kerala) comes into being. |
| 1/7/1885 | Madhav Narayan Joshi, comedy drama writer, was born. |
| 5/7/1861 | Guru Dev Rabindranath Thakur alias Tagore, novelist, painter, educationist and freedom fighter, was born in Calcutta. |
| 9/5/1988 | The country goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill. |
| 11/17/1953 | Sadanand Swaminathan, famous journalist, passed away. |
| 9/23/1952 | Anshuman Dattajirao Gaekwad, batsman in 40 Tests (1974-85), was born in Bombay. |
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