On This Day | 19 June

On this day:

1981: India’s APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched

1978:Jim Davis’ famous comic character Garfield makes his debut

Born on this day:

1947: Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist, author of Midnight’s Children, Satanic Verses

Gone on this day:

1949: Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian-Pakistani Prominent Muslim philosopher, dies at 64

2009: Ali Akbar Khan, Indian classical musician, dies at 87