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Historical Event on 2/7/1983

Eastern News Agency was established in Calcutta .

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/6/1971India refutes allegations that it has meddled in Pakistan's civil war.
9/12/1961Nalin Vilochan Sharma, great Hindi critic, died.
2/18/1999Ramakrishna Hedge, Commerce Minister, launched the India Brand Equity Fund (IBEF).
6/2/1908Sri Aurobindo, freedom fighter, was arrested in Manik Tala Bomb explosion case.
4/16/1997Anupama Gokhale wins National women's `A' chess in Calcutta.
10/6/1808Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia, professor, pioneer, innovator, chief engineer and Inspector of Machinery at the Steam Factory at Bombay and one of the dignitaries, was born.
5/2/1907Riots break out in Rawalpindi and East Bengal, spreading to the Punjab.
6/19/1981APPLE, India's first experimental geo-stationary telecommunication satellite having experimental communication satellite, successfully launched by European Ariane, Kourou, French Guiana. This is the first to be stabilized on 3 axes.
9/1/1989Yasser Arafat chosen for the 1988 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding.
11/19/1999New Governors for Bihar, West Bengal, Goa, Manipur and Punjab are named by the Rashtrapati Bhavan.