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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
11/5/1906Initials of the place of issuance of notes were started to be printed instead of Issuing Circle's name.
12/16/1999Likhiram Karve, Madhya Pradesh's Minister for Transport, is hacked to death by naxalites.
5/17/1927A.N. Radhakrishnan, great educationist, was born.
10/14/1910Further unrest took place in Lhasa, Tibet, following the arrest of Dalai Lama's agent by the Chinese on the Chinese frontier with India.
6/12/1975Allahabad court voids Indira Gandhi's election as premier, citing corruption at New Delhi.
12/9/1999BJP expels former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh.
1/5/1659Aurangzeb defeated Shah Shuja in the battle of Khawan near Allahabad.
11/16/1713Chhatrapati Shahu appointed Balaji Vishwanath, a very remarkable man in Maratha history, as 'Peshwa'.
4/5/1984Rakesh Sharma,Squadron leader, becomes India's first spaceman when he is launched aboard Soyuz T-11 of Soviet Union.
7/8/1988More than 100 people were killed and several injured as Bangalore-Trivandrum Island Express fell into Ashtamudi lake at Perumon in Quilon district of Kerala.