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Historical Event on 6/17/1991

Congress and its allies secure absolute majority in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Haryana Assemblies.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/1976Television was separated from radio, and Doordarshan Corporation was established.
5/30/1950Devdutta Ramkrishna Bhandarkar, great historian and archaeologist, passed away.
2/20/1950Sarat Chandra Bose, freedom fighter, journalist, leader and elder brother of Subhashchandra Bose, passed away.
7/21/1947Indian Constitution Assembly accepted the tricolour flag as its National Flag. This flag is with three equal horizontal stripes of Saffron (Sacrifice), White (Truth) and Green (Prosperity) and a Chakra is superimposed on white (Dharma Chakra on the capitol of Ashoka's Pillar at Sarnath) in blue colour having 24 spokes. The ratio of the width to length is two to three.
10/22/1937Gandhiji presided over the educational conference at Wardha and outlined his scheme of education through basic crafts.
4/10/1996Delhi High Court bans the import of toxic waste in India.
1/19/2000Railways retains the Lady Ratan Trophy Women's National Hockey championship.
3/3/1999Four members of the forward Bhumihar community and alleged members of the Ranbir Sena are gunned down by an armed squad of the People's War Group in Bhimpura village of Jehanbad district in Bihar.
6/18/2000K.M. Beenamol breaks P.T. Usha's record in 400m at 51.21 sec in an international meet at Kiev in Ukraine.
8/13/1993All the TDP MLAs suspended from Andhra Pradesh Assembly.