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Historical Event on 7/18/1980
Second Experimental launch of Space Launch Vehicle -3 (SLV-3) by Indian made 35 kilogram Rohini satellite (RS-1) successfully placed in orbit. It was used for measuring in-flight performance of second experimental launch of SLV-3. The launch took from Sriharikota and India became the sixth nation to put a satellite into orbit.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/31/1999 | Dr. S. S. Badrinath gets Dhanvantari Award. |
| 5/6/1971 | India refutes allegations that it has meddled in Pakistan's civil war. |
| 8/1/1846 | Dwarkanath Tagore, a Hindu philanthropist, died in London. |
| 7/1/1927 | Chandrashekhar, former Prime Minister of India, was born. |
| 8/20/1979 | Indian premier Charan Singh resigns. |
| 2/25/1976 | India announces plan to penalize parents who have more than two children. |
| 9/2/1976 | Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, famous marathi story writer, novelist and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away. |
| 6/30/1934 | Chintamani Nagesh Ramachandra Rao, famous Scientist and Chemist, was born. His research work confines to ""Solid State Chemistry"". In 1982 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. |
| 6/30/1934 | Daud Shah assasinated Mujahid Shah to become the fourth Bahmani Sultan, but himself was murdered by a slave. |
| 1/12/1995 | Kerala's birthrate drops to 17.5 per 1000. |
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