17 JAN HISTORY EVENTS

Today in Indian History Events for January 17

17-January-1601Akbar, after eight month's siege, entered Asirgarh one of the strongest forts in India.

17-January-1771Govind Patwardhan Mirajkar, first Rao of Peshwai, passed away.

17-January-1833William Rush, Indian sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), passed away.

17-January-1888Babu Gulab Rai, famous Hindi essy writer, critic and historian, was born.

17-January-1889Shri Baldev Ramji Mirdha, great social worker, leader and politician, was born in village Kuchera, district Nagaur of Rajasthan.

17-January-1905Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar was born at Dahanu near Bombay. He discovered the shortest possible routes to solve mathematical problems. In 1927, he won the wrangler R. P. Paranjpe Mathematical Prize for an Original Piece of work in mathematics. He discovered 'Kaprekar Constant' in 1946. It is the number ""6174"". The constant 6174 is arrived at and this number then generates itself into one set of numbers called ""self numbers"" that is also known by his name. Kaprekar passed away in

17-January-1908Akkineni Lakshmi Varaprasada Rao Prasad, film producer, was born.

17-January-1909Bejoy Kumar Sinha, journalist and social worker, was born at Kanpur.

17-January-1913Yadvendra Singh, HH LtG. Maharaja of Patial, cricketer (scored 24 & 60 in only Test India vs England), was born in Patiala, Punjab.

17-January-1917Dr. Maruthur Gopala Ramachandran, (M.G.R.), Indian film star, politician and charismatic Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, was born at Kandy, Sri Lanka. He was also the founder of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhaga (AIADMK).

17-January-1922T. A. Pai, former Central Minister and bank expert, was born.

17-January-1923Rangey Raghav, famous hindi writer, was born.

17-January-1925Abdul Hafeez Kardar, cricketer (Pakistan 1st Test captain, previously played for India), was born in Lahore.

17-January-1933Aga Khan, religious leader (Muslims), was born.

17-January-1941Subhashchandra Bose went underground at Calcutta. He appeared in Moscow after sone days.

17-January-1952The pension work of CDA (Factories), Calcutta and the Defence civilians in ordnance factories was transferred to the office of the CDA (P), Allahabad.

17-January-1981Central Government offers full statehood to Mizoram.

17-January-1985Azharuddin scores second Test century in second Test vs England.

17-January-1987Tata Football Academy was opened in Tatanagar.

17-January-1989J.K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole.

17-January-1992Shankar Ramchandra (Mamrao Date), veteran journalist, passed away.

17-January-1993LTTE commander Sadasivan Krishnakumar alias Kittu was killed in a ship blaze off Madras coast.

17-January-1997Government rules out granting dual citizenship to NRIs.

17-January-1997Supreme Court bans all non-forest activities including running of saw mills and mining in forest areas.

17-January-1999Madhya Pradesh won its maiden Wills Trophy championship, defeating Bengal in the final of the limited overs cricket championship in Calcutta.