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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
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously.
10/23/1999V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister, tops the list of star witnesses in Bofors case.
5/15/1993K.M. Cariappa, field marshal and Major General, passed away at the age of 93.
1/6/1992Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* vs Australia at the SCG.
5/20/1932Bipinchandra Ramchandra Pal, powerful journalist and revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away. He was amongst the trio which was known as ""Lal - Bal - Pal"" during the freedom struggle. He started a newspaper called ""Swaraj"" for the Indians in England. He also edited several other newspapers like ""Tribune"", ""New India"", ""Vande Mataram"", ""Swaraj"", ""Hindu Review"", ""Democrat"", ""Independent Bengali"", etc.
2/21/1952The XV Indian Olympic Games in Madras.
4/24/1993IA's Delhi-Srinagar Boeing with 141 persons, hijacked by a Kashmiri militant lands, in Amritsar.
9/27/1999Harshad Mehta and three others are convicted for misappropriating surplus funds of the Maruti Udyog Ltd.
10/3/1991Ganpatrao Tapase, former Governor of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, died.
11/7/1995Lukose Leelamma at Pune sets record for 10,000m (Women) in 34.33.50.