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Historical Event on 6/2/1990

Union Government set up a tribunal to settle the Cauvery water issue between Tamil Nadu & Karnataka.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/28/1988Jaydev, famous music director, passed away.
6/6/1997New economic grouping BIST-EC (Bangladesh-India-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation forum) comes into being.
9/25/1857Lucknow relief by Havelock & Outram begins.
5/24/1903Hemchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali poet, passed away.
7/30/1991Sabi Fernandes, senior photographer of Indian Express Newspaper Group, died.
4/22/1993Air India engineers call off their 56-day-old strike.
11/5/1945Case was filed against the Azad Hind Army Soldiers at Red Fort in Delhi.
1/3/1966Chetan Jagatram Manohar Sharma, cricketer (Indian Test pace bowler, World Cup hat-trick 1987), was born in Ludhiana.
3/1/1998Bharat Ratna is awarded to Dr. A.J.P. Abdul Kalam, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, and Smt. M. S. Subbulakshmi, Carnatic musician. The award is also conferred posthumously on film director Satyajit Ray, freedom fighter Aruna Asaf Ali and former Prime Minister Gulzari Lal Nanda.
12/10/1998Dr. Gurudev S. Khush, rice breeder at the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines, and Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, wheat breeder at the International Wheat and Maize Improvement Centre, Mexico, share the Rank Prize announced in London.