Year 1525
Babur came to India , and conquered it through Sindh in his fifth attempt.
NOVEMBER 17
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17 November: 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 November.
Observances & Special Days
World Prematurity Day
International Students' Day
Martyrs' Day (Orissa, India)
Year 1831
Gran Colombia was divided into two states, Ecuador and Venezuela.
Year 1857
Sir Colin Campbell, British Army Officer, managed to supress Indian Mutiny sepoys at Lucknow.
Year 1869
The Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, was inaugurated. However, the construction of this canal was completed 10 years ago.
Year 1921
Princes of Wales came to India.
Year 1932
The Third Round Table Conference began in London. It was not attended by the Congress as the real Indian participation in the making of the constitution was negligible. Since Gandhi was in prison because of his civil disobedience movement he could not attend it either. This conference ended on 24th November 1932 without achieving anything.
Year 1933
The United States recognized the Soviet Union.
Year 1939
Nazis entered Prague University and killed students. International Student Day is celebrated on 17 November in memory of those children.
Year 1947
Rajendra Prasad elected the President of Indian National Congress.
Year 1948
Despite the scepticism on the part of the US and British advisers concerning the feasibility of the scheme, the first half-dozen HAL-reconditioned B-24s were ready by November 1948 and, on the 17th of that month, No. 5 Squadron was formed with these heavy bombers.
Year 1950
Lhamo Dondrub officially became the 14th Dalai Lama.
Year 1966
India's beauty queen Rita Faria was crowned as 'Miss World' in World Beauty contest held in London. She was a medical student.
Year 1986
Georges Bess, head of French car company Renault, was murdered in Paris. His killers came on a motorcycle and opened fire on him in front of his house.
Year 1986
SAARC Summit at Bangalore decides to set up permanent secretariat at Kathmandu; India elected new Chairman.
Year 1994
Russia’s Mir spacecraft created a new world record by completing 50,000 orbits.
Year 1994
North Eastern Council decides to include Sikkim in the Council.
Year 1994
Dr. Harbhajan Singh, Punjabi poet, wins Saraswati Samman.
Year 1997
68 foreign tourists were killed in southern Egypt when extremists attacked the bus of tourists.
Year 2013
A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected by tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes.
Year 2019
The first known case of COVID-19 was traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
Born On This Day
09 AD: Vespasian, the Roman emperor.
Born 1749
Nicolas Appert, founder of Canning.
Born 1755
Louis XVIII, King of France.
Born 1901
Walter Holstein, the first President of the European Commission.
Born 1906
Soichiro Honda, co-founder of Honda Motor Company.
Born 1920
Gemini Ganesan, Indian actor and director (d. 2002)
Born 1923
Aristides Pereira, the first president of Cape Verde.
Born 1925
Rock Hudson, American actor.
Born 1932
The third Round Table Conference starts on November 17, 1932, in London.
Born 1938
Ratnakar Matkari, writer, playwright, producer.
Born 1961
Chanda Kochhar, the former managing director, and chief executive officer of ICICI Bank.
Born 1979
Neeti Mohan, an Indian singer.
Born 1982
Yusuf Pathan, an Indian International cricketer.
Born 1986
Nani, a Portuguese association football player.
Died 1812
John Walter, founder of The Times.
Died 1835
James Todd, researcher and writer of Rajput history, passed away.
Died 1915
Robert Hofstadter, an American physicist.
Died 1915
Vishnu Gopal Pingle was hanged for revolting against the Indian Army in Talegaon prison of Pune.
Died 1928
Lala Lajpat Rai died in Lahore after being seriously wounded in the barbarous lathi charge of 30th October. He is referred as the "Lion of Punjab" or "Punjab Kesari" and is remembered as freedom fighter, nationalist, educationist, lawyer, thinker, writer, social reformer, orator and a passionate fighter for the revival of the ancient Indian culture and values.
Died 1931
Hariprasad Shastri, Indian-Sanskrit scholar, educationist, and historian.
Died 1935
Gopal Krishna Deodhar, a founding member of the ‘Servants of India Society.’
Died 1953
Sadanand Swaminathan, famous journalist, passed away.
Died 1973
Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader (b. 1878). she was also known as Mother Pondicherry.
Died 1986
Georges Bess, head of French car company Renault.
Died 2003
Surjit Bindrakhia, Indian singer (b. 1962)
Died 2007
Raghunandan Swarup Pathak, the 18th Chief Justice of India.
Died 2012
Ponty Chadha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1957)
Died 2012
Bal Thackeray, Indian cartoonist and politician (b. 1926)
Died 2015
Ashok Singhal, President of Vishwa Hindu Parishad.