Oct 9 1971
From The Space Library
India successfully launched short-range rocket for first time from its new launching facility at Sriharikota Island, Indian-made Rohini rocket was launched to test complex at Sriharikota, near Madras, from which an Indian satellite was expected to be orbited in next three or four years. (Reuters, NYT, 10/10/71, 15)
Nobel Prize for Medicine was won by Vanderbilt Univ. physiologist Dr. Earl W. Sutherland, Jr., for discovery of how cyclic adenyl acid regulated work of hormones in human body. (Auerbach, W Post, 10/15/71, Al )
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