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Historical Event on 12/17/1905
Judge Mohammad Hidayatullah, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/2/1934 | Indian Naval Force was established. |
| 3/1/1971 | General Election ( 5th) of India begins. |
| 12/8/1922 | Hari Prasad Sharma, cricket Test umpire for 3 tests from 1974-77, was born at Delhi. |
| 5/13/1916 | Vasudev Mahadev Salgaonkar, great Industrialist, was born. |
| 12/11/1783 | Peshwa Raghobadada, who ruled upto Atak, passed away. |
| 7/15/1993 | Maninderjit Singh Bitta,Punjab Minister of State for Irrigation, appointed new Youth Cong (I) President. |
| 11/22/1773 | Robert Clive, English occupier (India), passed away at the age of 48. |
| 10/15/1996 | Dengue fever in Delhi takes 156 lives. |
| 12/17/1877 | Feroz Shah died at Makka, Saudi. |
| 12/17/1877 | Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2). |
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