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Historical Event on 6/24/1991

K. Karunakaran ministry assumes power in Kerala.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/3/1999Brigadier V. K. Chopra is appointed as the new head of the 121 (1) infantry brigade in Kargil.
8/7/1999A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, appeals to the United States to name Pakistan as a terrorist state.
12/16/1909Lal Singh Narayan Singh, cricketer (scored 15 & 29 in India's 1st Test match), was born near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
10/25/1971National Science and Technology Committee established.
7/1/1975Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India, declared a 20-point economic programme.
5/25/1999India blasts its way into the global satellite launch vehicle market with the PSLV-C2 deploying two foreign satellites besides the Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P4.
4/22/2000Bhaktavar Lentin (72), former Judge of the Bombay High Court, died after a prolonged illness at his residence in Mumbai.
9/24/1936It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity.
6/20/1996Govt. of India declares at Geneva conference on 'Global Ban On Nuclear Testing' that it won't sign the CTBT.
4/24/1995K. Karunakaran elected to Rajya Sabha.