Philadelphia Indian Community - PhiladelphiaIndian.com
| | | | | | | | | | | |
 


 

Historical Event on 6/15/1991

General Election (10th) of India ends. In this election Indian National Congress won.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/17/1905Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar was born at Dahanu near Bombay. He discovered the shortest possible routes to solve mathematical problems. In 1927, he won the wrangler R. P. Paranjpe Mathematical Prize for an Original Piece of work in mathematics. He discovered 'Kaprekar Constant' in 1946. It is the number ""6174"". The constant 6174 is arrived at and this number then generates itself into one set of numbers called ""self numbers"" that is also known by his name. Kaprekar passed away in 1988.
7/13/1995Devyani Chaubal, film journalist, passed away.
7/16/1997Kamal Hassan gets best actor award for ''Indian'' while Tabu bags best actress award for ''Maachis''.
7/24/1994Bodo kills 37 moslems in Bashbari, North Eastern India.
4/6/1998The Sonia Gandhi era begins in the Congress(I) with a special AICC session ratifying the decision of the CWC appointing her president in place of Sitaram Kesri.
2/16/1982Sibnath Banerjee, great social worker and leader, passed away.
10/19/1954Nehru and Mao meet in Peking.
2/24/1948The State of Junagarh, whose accession to India was protested by Pakistan in the UN Security Council, voted in favour of India in a popular referendum held on 20 February.
5/14/1960The first plane of India flew upto New York.
7/30/1993CBI arrests Bhupen Dalal and three other brokers for cheating of LIC Mutual Funds involving Rs.173 crore.