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Historical Event on 1/31/1995
ISRO and Intelsat sign a $100 m 10-year-long agreement for leasing some of the capacity of the Indian-built INSAT-2E (scheduled for launch in 1997).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/11/1866 | Patthe Bapurao (Shridhar Krishna Kulkarni), famous poet Shahir, was born. |
| 5/12/1997 | Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan agree to set up joint working groups on a range of issues to be identified by Foreign Secretaries. |
| 11/16/1997 | Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan offers to surrender. |
| 12/8/1932 | Indian Air Force Act was passed. |
| 5/5/1930 | Gandhiji was arrested and imprisoned without trial. As a result there was ''hartal'' (strike)all over India. Over 100,000 people were jailed before the end of the year. |
| 3/4/1906 | Hakim Abdul Majid started his medial dispensary under the name of Hamdard Dawakhana at Delhi. |
| 4/10/1930 | Police raid the headquarters of the Indian National Congress, Bombay. |
| 1/23/1999 | An Australian missionary, Graham Stewart Staines, and his two sons Philip and Timothy are burnt to death by miscreants near Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district. |
| 4/9/1893 | Maha Pandit Rahul Sanskrityayan, politician, professor and Hindi writer, was born at Pandaha, Azamgarh. |
| 3/28/1954 | The flight undertook its first VVIP commitment, when it carried the first Prime Minister of India, the Late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, from Palam to Tilpat range and back to witness the 'Fire Power Demo'. It carried wide spectrum of VVIPs, including the President, the Prime Minister, renowned statesmen, Generals, Luminaries and visiting foreign dignitaries. |
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