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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
2/3/1925First Electric Train started its journey from Bombay V. T. (presently known as C.S.T.) to Kurla. This train was on the Central Railway, Bombay.
11/13/1999A woman commits 'sati' in Satpura village in Mohaba district of Uttar Pradesh
6/19/2000Babu Parmanand, former speaker of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, sworn in as the 12th Governor of Haryana.
6/18/1996CBI arrests Sanjeeva Rao, relative of Narasimha Rao, and Prakash Yadav, son of former Union Minister, in the urea scam.
5/11/1970A bill for setting up of ""North Eastern Council"" passed.
9/20/1942Kanak Lata Barua, a yound child who tried to host the national flag at Goupur police station in Assam with the help of 500 people, was shot by the police station incharge.
6/24/1966Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die.
12/15/1999Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, arrives in Berlin to attend G-20 meet.
9/15/1861Dr. Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, famous architect, engineer and a diplomat, also a Bharat Ratna awardee, was born at Chickballapur in Mysore (Karnataka) in a poor Brahmin family.
11/18/1948Nearly 500 people were drowned when the ferry steamer Narayan River capsized and sank in the Ganga near Patna.