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Historical Event on 7/15/1991

The 25-day-old Narasimha Rao government wins a vote of confidence in Lok Sabha by securing 241 to 111; 112 abstained.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/10/1998India 'A' beats Pakistan 'A' by 58 runs in the fourth test to clinch the rain-hit series 1-0 at Karachi.
1/16/1997Dr. Datta Samant, Trade Union leader, shot dead in Mumbai.
4/18/1959India, Pakistan sign one-year pact on Indus River irrigation.
3/22/1885Gulam Yazdani, great archaeologist and critic, was born.
6/13/1879Ganesh Damodar (Babarao) Savarkar, revolutionary, was born.
5/22/1991Elections scheduled to be held on 23, 26 deferred to 12, 15 of June.
8/4/1906Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and an energetic Chief Minister, was born at Chanhalag village in Sirmaur.
1/18/1936Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story).
9/2/1992Delhi High Court indicts CBI in Bofors case; FIR and letters rogatory quashed.
8/18/1896Raghupati Sahay ""Firaq Gorakhpuri"", revolutionary Urdu poet, was born. He was honoured with the highest literary awards, including the Sahitya Academy Award in 1960 and Bharatiya Gyanpeeth Award in 1969. His notable works include ""Ruh-e-Kayenaat (Spirit of Universe, 1945)"" and ""Ramz-O-Kinayaat (Suggestion, 1946)"".