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Historical Event on 6/8/1948
Malabar Princess', Air India's first international flight, takes off from Bombay to London via Cairo and Geneva. This was weekly air service was started between India to United Kingdom.
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| 10/4/1993 | PM surveys the quake-hit villages and sanctioned Rs. 50 crore. |
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| 11/1/1985 | Helicopter Corporation of India, later renamed Pawan Hans Limited, started functioning. |
| 1/18/1932 | Shyam Nandan Kishore, great educationist, was born at Muzaffarpur. |
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| 4/3/1999 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation. |
| 6/6/1962 | General Election ( 3rd) of India ends. |
| 9/29/1977 | India and Bangladesh signed settlement for distributing Ganga river water. |
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