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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
11/27/1998India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final.
4/11/2000Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'.
5/21/1975The 26-mile feeder canal from Farakka to the Bhagirathi river dedicated to the nation.
5/1/1995SAARC endorses South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and establishes a South Asian Development Fund (SADF) for the economic and technical development of the subcontinent.
1/30/1908Gandhiji was summoned to see General Smuts at Pretoria and released on reaching a compromise.
6/4/1987A Swedish Government enquiry finds that Bofors paid commission to middlemen for concluding Arms Purchase Agreement with India.
11/25/1890Radheshyam, famous stage, film actor and director, was born.
9/4/1980Second Commonwealth Regional Heads of Government Conference in New Delhi.
12/23/1900Charansingh Chaudhary, former Prime Minister of India and a farmer's leader, was born.
5/19/1993Government decides to merge Vayudut with Indian Airlines.