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Historical Event on 7/23/1997
India decides to sign U.N. Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/18/1978 | Sardar Sobha Singh, famous builder of modern New Delhi, passed away at the age of 90. |
| 1/30/1993 | Congress (I) MLA in Andhra Pradesh P. Balaraju and eight officials kidnapped by the outlawed People's War Group in Visakhapatnam district. |
| 5/24/1990 | Surjit Singh Barnala sworn in as Governor of Tamil Nadu. |
| 11/19/2000 | Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999. |
| 11/17/1915 | Vishnu Gopal Pingle was hanged for revolting against the Indian Army in Talegaon prison of Pune. |
| 3/12/1944 | No. 7 Squadron, which had flown its Vengeances on some missions against dissident tribesmen in North Waziristan, started operations in the Arakan from an airstrip at Uderbund near Kumbigram. |
| 10/31/1994 | 26 die as cyclone lashes Tamil Nadu. |
| 4/26/1920 | Srinivas Ramanujam, famous Indian mathematician, passed away at Chetpet in Madras. |
| 8/8/1912 | Prabhulal Bhatnagar, mathematician and Padmabhushan awardee, was born. |
| 7/27/1994 | Parliament votes to ban tests for determining the sex of an unborn child, as these tests have resulted in thousands of aborted female fetuses. |
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