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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
9/9/1923First magazine 'Kiran' was published by Ravikiran Mandal.
7/31/1658Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor.
3/12/1942British troops vacate the Andaman in Gulf of Bengal.
6/4/1992Stock broker Harshad Mehta and his associates arrested.
5/11/1985Booby (Doll) trap bomb kills 86 people in India.
5/23/1975P. S. Bapat, victoria cross winner Lieutenant General, passed away.
12/7/2000A five-member ULFA group guns down 26 non-Assamese people, mostly Hindi and Bengali-speaking, at Sonpura near Arunachal Pradesh Border in Upper Assam.
12/12/1965Vijayanta, first India-made millitary tank which was handed over to the Army, was manufactured at Avadi Heavy Vehicles Factory at Madras.
7/10/1927Ganga Ram, great social reformer and founder of Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, died in England while functioning as an active member of the Royal Commission on Agriculture. He was against dowry and child marriages and advocated widow re-marriage and also established institutions for vocational education and education for adults.
3/31/1964Tram-way service ended in Mumbai (Bombay). This last electric tram left Bori Bunder (CST) for Dadar at 10 p.m., crowds lined the route all the way at that late hour to bid farewell to the common man's transport medium.