Year 1715
Banda Bahadur Bairagi, the chief of the Sikhs, surrendered to the Mughals at Gurdaspur.
DECEMBER 17
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17 December: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 17 December.
Year 1907
Ugyen Wangchuk became the first hereditary king of Bhutan.
Year 1925
The then Soviet Union and Turkey signed an agreement not to attack each other.
Year 1927
Great Australian batsman Sir Don Bradman scored 118 runs in his first match in first-class cricket.
Year 1927
Rajendra Nath Lahiri, a revolutionary of the Hindustan Republican Association, was hanged in Gonda Jail by the British Government two days before the scheduled date.
Year 1928
Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Rajguru assassinated British police officer James Saunders at Lahore.
Year 1933
India’s legendary cricketer Lala Amarnath played an outstanding inning of 118 runs in his debut Test match.
Year 1940
Mahatma Gandhi suspended individual Satyagraha movement.
Year 1970
Jayantilal Chotalal Shah became the 13th Chief Justice of India.
Year 1971
End of Indo-Pak war.
Year 1996
National Football League launched.
Year 2016
Sharad Pawar resigned as MCA (Mumbai Cricket Association) president.
Year 2016
Vijender Singh defeated Francis Cheka to clinch the WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight title.
Year 2020
India’s communication satellite CMS-01 was successfully launched by PSLV–C50 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota.
Year 1927
Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
Year 1928
Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
Year 1929
Bhagat Singh and Rajguru killed Sanders, Asst. Suprintendent of Police.
Year 1933
Lala Amarnath scores a century (118) in his Test Cricket debut.
Year 1961
Provocative action against our nationals in the vicinity of Anjadip Island and Portugal's belligerent attitude to the problems of its colonial possessions in this country, resulted in the Government of India's decision to liberate Goa, Daman and Diu. Operations were launched at night.
Year 1970
Judge Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 21/01/1971.
Year 1971
Ceasefire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir and end of Indo-Pak war.
Year 1972
New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan.
Year 1987
Bhopal court orders the Union Carbide to pay Rs. 350 crore as interim relief to 1984 gas victims.
Year 1990
N. Janardhan Reddy sworn in as CM of Andhra Pradesh.
Year 1991
Narasimhan committee on Monetary Reforms recommends that there should not be any further nationalisation of banks. Loan-melas assailed.
Year 1998
Jyotirmoyee bags her second gold at the Asian Games, winning the women's 800m. Rosakutty finishes second. Bantamweight pugilist Dingko Singh clinches a gold while Indian pair of Sethi-Shandilya strikes top prize in billiards doubles category.
Year 1998
P. M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) was unanimously elected Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
Year 1999
Pramod Mahajan, Parliamentary Affairs Minister, announces that Women's Bill will be introduced in the Lok Sabha.
Year 2000
The 13-day nationwide postal strike called off.
Born 1770
Ludwig van Beethoven, a German composer, and pianist.
Born 1778
Sir Humphry Davy, a Cornish chemist, and inventor.
Born 1849
Lalmohan Ghosh, the sixteenth President of the Indian National Congress.
Born 1861
Arthur Edwin Kennelly, an Irish-American electrical engineer.
Born 1900
Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright, a British mathematician.
Born 1905
Mohammad Hidayatullah, the 11th Chief Justice of India.
Born 1910
Eknath Easwaran, an Indian-born spiritual teacher, and author.
Born 1910
Keki Khursedji Tarapore, cricketer (0-72 in his only Test for India), was born in Bombay.
Born 1914
Syed Mushtaq Ali, an Indian cricketer.
Born 1935
Umayalpuram Kasiviswanatha Sivaraman, an Indian-Carnatic mridanga vidwan.
Born 1936
Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State.
Born 1556
Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Pakistani-Indian poet (d. 1627)
Born 1972
John Abraham, an Indian film actor, film producer, and former model.
Born 1975
Vaibhavi Merchant, an Indian dance choreographer.
Born 1978
Riteish Deshmukh, an Indian film actor, architect, producer, and entrepreneur.
Died 1273
Rumi, a Persian poet.
Died 1645
Nur Jahan, the twentieth wife of the Mughal emperor Jahangir.
Died 1740
Chimaji Appa, Peshwa warrior, died.
Died 1830
Simon Bolivar, great dynamic leader and social reformer, died.
Died 1877
Feroz Shah died at Makka, Saudi.
Died 1907
Lord Kelvin, a British mathematical physicist, and engineer.
Died 1909
Leopold II, the second King of the Belgians.
Died 1927
Rajendra Lahiri, an Indian revolutionary.
Died 1933
Thubten Gyatso, the 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
Died 1934
Khandesh Gandhi Mir Sukrulla, great patriot and freedom fighter, died.
Died 1938
Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali story writer and novelist, died.
Died 1959
Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya, an Indian independence activist, and political.
Died 1964
Victor Franz Hess, an Austrian-American physicist.
Died 1974
Ustad Gulam Sabir, famous Sarangi player, died at Kanpur.
Died 1978
Dhirendranath Ganguly, father of Bengali film industry, died.
Died 1996
Virendrakumar Jain, famous writer, died in Mumbai.
Died 2019
Shriram Lagoo, an Indian film, and theatre actor.