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- Sir APJ Abdul Kalam’s full name is Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam.
- Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, was where APJ Abdul Kalam was born.
- He has always worked extremely hard in school.
- He had produced excellent work in the fields of launch vehicle and ballistic missile technology.
- In Pokhran II, India’s nuclear test at Pokhran in 1998, he was a crucial player.
- Sir APJ Abdul Kalam was also India’s eleventh president.
- Kalam obtained seven honorary doctorates from forty universities during the course of his life.
- In Tamilnadu, Youth Renaissance Day is observed on his birthday, October 15.
- For his contribution to Indian defense technology, he was awarded the Bharat Ratna.
- In 2002, Kalam came in second place after B.R. Ambedkar in a poll conducted by Outlook India.