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Historical Event on 6/23/1993

Motilal Vohra made governor of UP.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/4/1932Many are arrested as Congress agents picket Bombay post offices in celebration of Gandhi Day.
2/7/1990Krishan Kant became the Governor of Andhra Pradesh till 21/08/1997.
4/5/1922Pandita Ramabai, social worker and philosophist, passed away.
1/4/1932Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants.
1/10/1993India asks Pakistan to reduce its diplomatic strength by 40.
9/10/1999Sonia Gandhi files her nomination papers for the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency.
7/17/1937Delhi-Calcutta Express Train derailed near Patna killing 95.
2/6/1937Baldev Singh, Chahal campaigner, was born.
1/23/1978The 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.
1/23/1999An Australian missionary, Graham Stewart Staines, and his two sons Philip and Timothy are burnt to death by miscreants near Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district.