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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 |
| 1/29/1953 | Indian National Academy of Dance, Drama and Music inaugurated. |
| 9/16/1913 | Kasturba Gandhi was arrested. |
| 3/29/1914 | Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram came in India. |
| 8/11/1911 | Prem Bhatia, great journalist, was born. |
| 12/6/2000 | The Supreme Court gives a clean chit to former Prime Minister P. V. Narasimha Rao upholding the trial court's order, and discharging him and former Union Minister K.K. Tewary from the 'St.Kitts forgery case'. |
| 12/28/1905 | Sir Dr. Gajapatairaj Vijaya Ananda, the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram, ""Vizzy"", cricketer and Indian Right Handed Batsman, was born at Vizianagar. He was honoured with Padma Bhushan in 1958. |
| 2/25/1982 | J. K. Irani, cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests for India 1947-48), passed away. |
| 9/2/1894 | Vinayak Mishra, famous Oriya litterateur, critic and historian, was born. |
| 12/31/1995 | K.P.S. Gill, DGP of Punjab, retires from service. |
| 12/26/1947 | K.M. Munshi is appointed Govt. of India's agent in Hyderabad State. |
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