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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
5/1/1992Seperate secretariat was established for primary education.
9/1/1930Suhasini Ganguly, freedom fighter, was arrested and send to Hijali Jail for her revolutionery activities. She later lived a low profiled life after release from prision.
5/9/1992M. J. Pherwani, National Housing Bank Chairman, resigns following his bank's involvement in the Security scandal.
1/15/2000Baba Amte, social artist, receives Gandhi Peace Prize 1999, from the President K. R. Narayanan.
3/18/1974Buddhadev Basu, modern Bengali poet, story writer, playwright and critic, passed away.
4/26/1762Shyam Shastri, musician and a great artist of India, was born at Tiruvarur.
5/10/1917Ramanand Maru Amin, great novelist, was born in Baloor, Mangalore.
11/17/1948Despite the scepticism on the part of the US and British advisers concerning the feasibility of the scheme, the first half-dozen HAL-reconditioned B-24s were ready by November 1948 and, on the 17th of that month, No. 5 Squadron was formed with these heavy bombers.
3/20/1998Rajesh Kumar Singh, CPI(ML) leader, is shot at Pandeypur village in Patna.
10/28/1867Swami Vivekanand Sister Nivedita, great freedom fighter, revolutionary and politician, was born at Dunganon in Ireland.