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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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8/6/1925	Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
10/3/2000	India and Russia sign a declaration on strategic partnership.
3/12/1917	Googie Withers, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing), was born in Karachi, India.
7/25/1997	Kocheril Raman Narayanan (K. R. Narayanan) became the 10th President of India.
12/3/1884	Dr. Rajendra Prasad, first President of India, was born in Jeradei village of Bihar.
12/30/1974	Opening of the fifth Indian Film Festival. It was presided over by Satyajit Ray at New Delhi.
12/17/1933	Lala Amarnath scores a century (118) in his Test Cricket debut.
5/24/1993	India and Uzbekistan sign five pacts.
5/30/1952	S.C.Mathur was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 01-07-1955.
4/17/1923	Lindsay Anderson, director (Thursday's Children), was born in Bangalore, India.

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