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Historical Event on 5/4/1990

Supreme Court directs Central Government to set up a Tribunal to resolve Cauvery water dispute between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/11/1906Mysore Gururaj Vijayasarathi, cricket Test umpire for 13 tests from 1951-60, was born in Karnataka.
4/17/1996Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains.
5/15/1989NAL's 0.6 m transonic wind tunnel is commissioned. Total project cost is about Rs 20 million.
5/16/1932Hundreds die in fighting between Muslims and Hindus at Bombay.
11/2/1967Ministry of Education evolves a National Service Scheme for University students.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
4/14/1925Harisingh Gogumal Kishanchand, cricketer (5 Tests for India 1947-52), was born in Karachi.
10/30/1992India and China decide to continue peace measures and open more points for border trade.
9/9/1941Syed Abid Ali, great Indian medium pace-bowler and all-rounder, was born at Hyderabad.
6/12/1972D. G. Tendulkar, historian who had written the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, died.