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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
4/5/1991Kerala Assembly dissolved paving way for elections.
4/15/1984Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab, India.
4/22/1991IMF and the World Bank decide to grant $1 billion loan to India.
8/14/1942Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, started broadcasting from a secret transmitter on the wave length of 42.84 meters. This channel was used for freedom movement telecasts.
8/14/1942Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).
6/14/1905Smt. Hirabai Barodekar, famous veteran Maharashtrian classical singer, was born.
10/9/1999Sunil Kumar and Sai Jayalakshmy won the men's and women's titles respectively in the National Tennis championship in Delhi. Akshay Vishal Rao emerged boys' under-18 champion.
9/25/1962Rajiv Ramesh Kulkarni, cricketer (Indian Test pace bowler 1986-87), was born in Bombay.
3/24/1974Lokprabha weekly started its publication.
7/23/1997India decides to sign U.N. Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.