APJ Abdul Kalam, the eleventh President of India, was born in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu.
On October 15, 1931, on the island of Dhanushkodi off the southeastern coast of India, Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was born into a Muslim household. After graduating from the Madras Institute of Technology, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam joined India's military department as an aeronautical scientist. He played a key role in the development of the country's nuclear weapons and was acclaimed as a national hero following a series of successful tests in 1998. Kalam was India's president for one term, from 2002 to 2007, and died on July 27, 2015, after a heart attack. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was an Indian scientist and politician who was President of India from 2002 to 2007.
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