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Historical Event on 8/30/1979
Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.

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12/8/1879	Jatindranath Mukherjee (Jatin Bagha), famous revolutionary, was born in Jessore.
4/1/1956	Companies Act of 1913 was revised and Indian Companies Act of 1956 came into force.
1/30/1996	Maharashtra govt. decides to make school education free up to 10th standard.
2/25/2000	The Supreme Court stays the Madras High Court order discharging the former Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo, Ms. Jayalalitha, from the two TANSI deal cases.
4/29/1957	The National Civil Defence College was founded at Nagpur as the Central Emergency Relief Training Institute (CERTI). It functions as the training wing of the Emergency Relief Organisation of the Government of India.
11/1/1985	Helicopter Corporation of India, later renamed Pawan Hans Limited, started functioning.
8/4/1997	Nilesh Kulkarni becomes the first Indian to take a wicket with his first ball in Test Cricket (Colombo).
7/18/1980	Second Experimental launch of Space Launch Vehicle -3 (SLV-3) by Indian made 35 kilogram Rohini satellite (RS-1) successfully placed in orbit. It was used for measuring in-flight performance of second experimental launch of SLV-3. The launch took from Sriharikota and India became the sixth nation to put a satellite into orbit.
7/12/1896	Dangambarrao G. Bindu, politician and father of Hydrabad Liberation Party, was born.
2/1/1972	International Airports Authority of India established.

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