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Historical Event on 6/15/1991

About 50% of the 180.3 million electorate cast their votes in the final phase of Lok Sabha elections.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/18/1980Second Experimental launch of Space Launch Vehicle -3 (SLV-3) by Indian made 35 kilogram Rohini satellite (RS-1) successfully placed in orbit. It was used for measuring in-flight performance of second experimental launch of SLV-3. The launch took from Sriharikota and India became the sixth nation to put a satellite into orbit.
7/16/1954French rule ends in Mahe. De facto power was transferred to the people and the Indian flag hoisted.
3/23/1911Indranath Bandopadhyay, Bengali comedy writer and journalist, passed away.
10/3/2000Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee buys peace with the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee by agreeing to a partial rollback of the hike in prices of petroleum products.
9/1/1956Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory.
12/20/1987Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0) in 76th Tennis Davis Cup .
4/24/1995K. Karunakaran elected to Rajya Sabha.
2/1/1967Victor Paramjyoti, famous Indian music director, composer and critic, passed away.
2/1/1967Amir Timur of Timur Lang invaded India with 92 squadrons of horses and 90,000 cavalry and reached the banks of Sindhu river near Atak city (now in Pakistan). He then attacked Delhi because its Muslim Sultanate was too tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian follower of Sufism, he was one of the most ruthless of all conquerors. Timur crossed the Indus River at Attock (now in Pakistan) on 24 September 1398.
12/20/1956Saint Gadgebaba died.