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Historical Event on 6/23/1993
Motilal Vohra made governor of UP.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/2/1926 | The worst Hindu-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta. |
| 2/24/1936 | Laxmibai Tilak, famous marathi poet, passed away. |
| 9/12/1995 | Heavy rainfall in the Himalaya region, resulting in landslide, claimed 70 lives near Kullu. |
| 12/12/1908 | Gaandhiji released from Volksrust Gaol. Indian National Congress adopts resolution on South Africa, criticizing the harsh, humiliating and cruel treatment to British Indians in South Africa as injurious to English Empire. |
| 1/23/1978 | The motto ""Shastra se Shakti"" (Strength though arms) in Hindi written in Devengiri script was approved by the President of India as the motto of the Army Ordnance Corps.The original corps motto of the Ordnance corps was ""Usa Tela Tananti"" found in the arms of the board of Ordnance. This was translated to mean ""To the thunder his arms"". The corps song titled ""Ayudh Corps Mahan"" was introduced for the first time in 4th re-union of the Army Ordnance Corps. The song is to be played or sung ""within unit lines only"", during purely Regimental functions. |
| 3/9/1997 | Bezawada Gopala Reddy, 89, former Union Minister and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, died. |
| 12/27/1988 | The first hot-air Cross India Balloon started its flight in Rajasthan. |
| 4/2/1679 | Aurangzeb reimposed Jizya Tax to finance the spread of Islam on the Hindus.This Jeziya tax was abolished by Akbar. |
| 8/16/1991 | C. Achuta Menon, former CM of Kerala, passed away. |
| 12/22/1998 | The National Award for the Best Technological Invention is conferred on Prof. J. R. Isaac, a computer scientist. |
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