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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
9/23/1996Sitaram Kesri elected provisional president of Congress (I).
10/23/1973Sambamurthy Pichhu, famous musician of Madras, died.
10/23/1973Akbar responded with alacrity and arrived at Ahmadabad and made adequate arrangements for its administration.
2/12/1960Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers.
7/14/1998India is elected chairperson of the World Intellectual Property Organisation's standing panel on information technology in relation to Intellectual Property Rights.
9/9/1997Pravin Thipsay becomes India's third chess Grand Master.
12/1/1946Australia compiled 645 vs India at Gabba. Bradman made 187 runs.
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.
11/3/1933Amartya Kumar Sen, economist, was born at Santiniketan (Bangal).
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.