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Historical Event on 8/7/1990

Govt. of India accepts the Mandal Commission's recommendations and decides to reserve 27\% jobs for the backward classes. Violent protests rock parts of Northern India against Mandal Commission.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/14/1998S. Vijayalakshmi wins National women's `A' chess title in Mumbai.
7/25/1982Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913-1996) retired from the post of sixth President.
4/30/1909Kirpal Prem Nath, educationist, was born at Moga (Punjab).
7/31/1919Hemchandra ""Hemu"" Ramchandra Adhikari, cricketer (right-handed batsman 1947-59), was born in Baroda.
7/31/1919Firuz Shah Bahmani died.
2/16/1980The first visible Total Solar Eclipse of the 20th Century was seen. This succeeded the total solar eclipse after 22 June 1898.
10/5/1957Nehru becomes the first recipient of the key of Hiroshima Peace City.
5/11/1930Ganesh Narayan R, great Industrialist, was born.
5/11/1930Saint Francis Xavier, Jesuit priest, Spanish missionary teaching in India and Japan, was born in the Spanish kingdom of Navarre.
11/20/1990Union Government asks Supreme Court to repeal the $470 million Bhopal Gas settlement order.