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Historical Event on 6/18/1991
Congress emerges as the largest party in Lok Sabha polls though short of an absolute majority.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/23/1993 | RBI cuts minimum lending rate by 1%. |
| 4/20/1960 | Pannalal Ghosh, famous flute player, passed away. |
| 12/7/1995 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2C), third indigenous satellite in the INSAT-2 series, launched. This has additional capabilities such as mobile satellite service, business communication and television outreach beyond Indian boundaries. This is still in service. It was launched by Ariane launch vehicle at French Guyana. |
| 9/11/1985 | Sri Lanka score their first Test victory by 149 runs against India. |
| 1/28/1877 | Pulin Bihari Das, revolutionary journalist, passed away. |
| 5/3/1896 | Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, great nationalist, lawyer, freedom fighter, barrister and member of the Rajya Sabha, was born at Panniyankara in Calicut, Kerala. |
| 4/1/1962 | Metric weights became compulsory as New Weights and Measurements Metric system was intoduced by Indian Government. |
| 2/21/1979 | Yousuf Hussain, litterateur and brother of President Zakir Hussain Khan, passed away. |
| 2/21/1979 | Sher Shah defeated Humayun for the second time at Hardoi in U.P. in the battle of Kanauj. |
| 3/27/1977 | The government revoked the national Emergency promulgated on Dec. 3, 1971. |
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