| October
15, 1931 |
Born
at Rameswaram. |
| 1950 |
Kalam
joined St. Joseph College, Trichi for BSc degree. |
| 1954 |
Joined
Madras Institute of Technology (MIT). |
| 1958 |
Employed
at DTD & P (Air) as Senior Scientific Assistant. |
| 1962 |
INCOSPAR
took the decision to set up the Equatorial Rocket Launching Station at Thumba. |
| November
21, 1963 |
India’s
1st rocket Nike – Apache launched. |
| November
20, 1967 |
Rohini – 75 rocket was launched from TERLS. |
| 1968 |
Formed the Indian Rocket Society. |
| December
30, 1971 |
Death
of Dr Sarabhai |
| October
8, 1972 |
Successful testing of the RATO system Sukhoi-16 jet aircraft performed. |
| 1974 |
Death of his brother-in-law, Jallaluddin. |
1976 |
His
father Jainulabdeen passed away at the age of 102. Soon afterwards his mother also passed
away. |
| July
18, 1980 |
India’s
first Satellite Launch Vehicle, SLV-3 lifted off from SHAR. |
| January
25, 1981 |
Padma
Bhushan award announced. |
| May
31, 1981 |
Next
SLV-3-D, took off. |
| February
1982 |
Appointed
Director of DRDL. |
| July
27, 1983 |
IGHDP
launched. |
| June
26, 1984 |
Devil
missile was fired to flight test the first indigenous Strap-down Inertial Guidance System. |
August 3, 1985 |
Foundation stone of the Research Center.
Imarat (RCI) was laid down. |
| September
1988 |
Second
flight of Prithvi. |
May 22, 1989 |
Agni
missile launched. |
| January
26, 1990 |
Conferred
the Padma Vibhushan. |
| 1990 |
Jadavpur University conferred him the honor of Doctor of Science. |
| 1991 |
Received an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from IIT, Mumbai. |
| 1997 |
APJ
Kalam awarded the highest civilian honor of India:the BHARATRATANA |
