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Historical Event on 2/2/1989

France's highest civilian award, 'Legion d' Honour, conferred upon Satyajit Ray by President Mitterrand at Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/23/1993British PM John Major arrives in India on an official visit.
6/4/1953University of Cambridge confers honorary Doctorate of Laws on J. L. Nehru.
1/20/1972Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become states of Indian union. Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram become Union Territories. Assam's North East Frontier Agency (Nepha) was renamed as Arunachal Pradesh territory.
8/7/1990Govt. 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.
12/30/1929The first inland Indian air mail left New Delhi this morning for Jodhpur, Hyderabad, and Karachi to connect at Karachi with the air service to London.
10/27/1937Abdul Karim Khan, famous singer of 'Kirana Gharana', died.
6/15/1960Bardwan University was established in West Bengal.
8/1/1997Lt. Gen. Ved Prakash Malik to be next chief of Army staff. Gen. Shankar Roy Chowdhury retires on September 30.
4/26/1946V. K. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-till date, was born at Hyderabad. He has become one of the first Indian Test umpires to be invited to umpire in a foreign country along with P. D. Reporter.
1/22/1965Plutonium Project (Sanyantra) was inaugurated at Trombay, Mumbai.