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Historical Event on 3/6/1991

Chandrasekhar resigns as PM.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/20/1654Portugal was taken over by Britishers.
7/1/1968Asia's biggest nuclear research lab started in New Delhi.
8/7/1906First Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying ""Vande Matara"" in Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Banerjee.
8/21/1978Vinoo Mankad, cricketer, died. He played 44 tests for India and had 2109 runs and took 162 wickets.
7/10/1949Sunil Manohar Gavaskar, great Indian cricket player (opener, 10,122 Test runs), was born in Bombay. He has received Arjun Award (1975) and Padma Bhushan (1980).
4/1/1995Open General Licence (OGL) list expanded from 43 to 75 as import of consumer goods liberalised.
6/25/2000India lifts the Asia Cup sub-junior hockey championship in Kuala Lumpur.
3/12/1972Vote gives Indira Gandhi 70 \% of regional seats.
9/5/1872V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, great freeom fighter, social reformer, prolific writer, politician and leader, was born at Ottapidaram village in Tamil Nadu.
1/20/1952Vasant Patankar, famous Marathi writer, was born.