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Historical Event on 6/11/1991

Over 106.6 million voters go to the second phase of national polls.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/12/1958Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies vs West Indies at Kanpur.
10/19/1983Union Government takes over the management of 13 textile undertakings in Bombay; marathon strike in cotton textile industry ends.
4/10/1937Shridhar Vyanktesh Ketkar, creator of Maharashtra Gyankosh and Sociologist, passed away.
2/2/1788Pitt's Regulatory Act was was introduced to modify the Indian Administration and put further controls on Government of India after the 1784 Bill.
2/21/1992Congress scores nearly three-fourth majority in Punjab Assembly elections.
2/19/1994Chambal dacoit Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen, was freed on parole after 11 years of incarceration.
1/1/1918Sir Edwin Lutyens was knighted in recognition of his quality of work at Delhi and his gratuitious services to the War Graves Commission.
8/1/1962Establishment of Maharashtra State Industrial Development Corporation.
4/1/1889Dr. Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar, politician and founder of Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh (RSS), was born.
12/28/1931The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him.