1698: Aurangzeb captured the fort of Jinji after an eight-year siege.
1801: Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr received the same number of votes in the US presidential election. The House of Representatives elected Jefferson as the President and Barr as Vice President.
1882: First Test match played at Sydney Cricket Ground.
1933: US embargo ended. The embargo was imposed in 1920.
1966: NASA’s Discovery Program began as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifted off on the first mission ever to orbit and landed on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
2007: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
Famous people born on this day on 17th February
1854: Friedrich Krupp, a German steel manufacturer.
1874: Thomas John Watson Sr., an American businessman.
1899: Jibanananda Das, an Indian poet, writer, novelist, and essayist in the Bengali language.
1954: K. Chandrashekhar Rao, an Indian politician and the first Chief Minister of Telangana.
1957: Praful Patel, an Indian politician, and businessman.
1963: Jen-Hsun Huang, a Taiwanese-American billionaire businessman and electrical engineer. He co-founded the graphics-processor company Nvidia.
1991: Ed Sheeran, an English singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor.
Famous people who died on this day on 17th February
1600: Giordano Bruno, an Italian philosopher.
1883: Vasudev Balwant Phadke, an Indian independence activist and revolutionary.
1986: Jiddu Krishnamurti, an Indian speaker, and writer.
1659: The first check was withdrawn from a British bank, housed in the National Westminster Bank.
1704: Aurangzeb conquered Rajgad fort and renamed it as Nabishahagad.
1887: Shiv Narayan Agnihotri founded the Dev Samaj.
1918: Lithuania declared independence from Russia and Germany.
1933: Surya Sen was arrested on this day from Gairala village after a tip-off from an insider of the group.
1959: Fidel Castro became the President of Cuba.
1960: US submarine Triton started to orbit the earth underwater.
1982: Jawaharlal Nehru International Gold Cup Football tournament organized for the first time in Kolkata, India.
1985: Hezbollah, a radical Shia Muslim organization, formed in Lebanon.
2005: The Kyoto Treaty came into existence seven years after the world’s major countries agreed to protect the environment.
Famous birthdays and birth anniversaries– February 16.
1222: Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist priest of the Kamakura period, who developed the teachings of Nichiren Buddhism, a branch school of Mahayana Buddhism.
1822: Sir Francis Galton, an English statistician.
1928: Dinesh Nandini Dalmia, an Indian poet, short story writer, and novelist.
1954: Michael Holding, a Jamaican cricket commentator, and former cricketer.
1964: Bebeto, a Brazilian former professional football player.
1978: Wasim Jaffer, an Indian former cricketer.
1997: Pardeep Narwal, an Indian kabaddi player.
Famous people who died on this day on 16th February
1944: Dadasaheb Phalke, an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as the Father of Indian cinema.
1956: Meghnad Saha, an Indian astrophysicist who developed the Saha ionization equation.
1996: R. D. Aga, an Indian industrialist and founder of Thermax.
2000: Karsten Solheim, an American golf club designer, and businessman.
2000: Bellary Kesavan, the first National Librarian of independent India.
2015: R. R. Patil, an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra.
1879: US Supreme Court allowed women lawyers to fight lawsuits.
1915 : Singapore Mutiny, a mutiny involving up to half of a regiment of 850 Indian Muslim sepoys against the British in Singapore during the First World War, linked with the 1915 Ghadar Conspiracy.
1939: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was elected as the President of the Congress.
1942: World War II- British troops surrendered in Singapore. 80,000 Indian, British, and Australian troop’s ceasefire.
1965: Canada adopted a new flag.
1967: Fourth general election held in India.
1976: Central Agricultural Research Institute was established in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
Famous people born on this day on 15th February
1564: Galileo Galilei, an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer.
1710: Louis XV, the King of France.
1824: Rajendralal (Raja Mitra), the first president of the Asiatic Society, an Orientalist researcher in Bengal.
1923: Sathyavani Muthu, an Indian politician and an influential leader from Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
1934: Niklaus Wirth, a Swiss computer scientist.
1935: Bashir Badr, an Indian poet of Urdu.
1947: Randhir Kapoor, an Indian film actor, producer, and director.
1949: Namdeo Dhasal, a Marathi poet, writer, and Dalit activist from Maharashtra, India.
2017: The Indian space rocket PSLV-C37 successfully launches 104 satellites in a single flight.
Death anniversaries– February 15.
1869: Mirza Ghalib, a prominent Urdu, and Persian poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire.
1948: Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, an Indian poet.
1953: Sureshbabu Mane, a prominent Hindustani classical music singer of Kirānā Gharānā in India.
1988: Richard Feynman, an American theoretical physicist.
1537: Death of Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat from drowning while escaping from Portuguese.
1556: Coronation of Mughal emperor Akbar took place at Kalanaur in Gurdaspur district of Punjab. At that time, Akbar was only 13 years old.
1628:Shah Jahan became mughal emperor.
1658: Dara Shikoh defeated Shah Shuja in the Battle of Bahadurpur to take over the power of Delhi after Shah Jahan.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied for a telephone patent on the same day.
1881: Establishment of India’s first homeopathic college at Kolkata.
1899: Voting machines began to be used in American election
1924: Establishment of computer maker IBM Company.
1945: World War II- Royal Air Force planes bombed the city of Dresden, Germany.
1945: Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru joined the United Nations.
1946: The first computer was on display at ENIAC University of Pennsylvania.
1989: Union Carbide agreed to pay USD 470,000,000 in compensation to the Government of India for the Bhopal tragedy.
2000,: Abhijit Kunte became the fourth Grandmaster of India.
2005: YouTube, the world-famous video searching website, was launched.
2019: A convoy of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was attacked by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber in the Pulwama district on the Jammu Shrinagar highway.
Famous birthdays and birth anniversaries February 14
1483: Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire and first Emperor of the Mughal dynasty in India.
1818: Frederick Douglass, an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
1909: Accamma Cherian, an Indian independence activist from the erstwhile Travancore, India.
1933: Madhubala, an Indian film actress.
1952: Sushma Swaraj, an Indian politician, and a Supreme Court lawyer.
Death anniversaries of famous people– February 14.
1779: Captain James Cook, a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy.
1808: John Dickinson, a Founding Father of the United States.
1975: P. G. Wodehouse, an English author.
Death anniversaries of famous people– February 14.
1779: Captain James Cook, a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy.
1808: John Dickinson, a Founding Father of the United States.
1739, 13th Feb: Battle of Karnal – Nadir Shah of Persia defeated Muhammad Shah of Mughals in three hours. This victory paved the way for Nadir Shah to reach Delhi.
1751:Salabat Jung became the Nizam of Hyderabad
1959: Children’s favorite Barbie doll began selling
1960: France tested the first atomic bomb.
1984: Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi launched the Mazgaon Dock in Mumbai for the Navy.
1988: The 15th Winter Olympics began in Calgary, Canada.
2003: Dadasaheb Phalke Award presented to filmmaker and director Yash Chopra.
Famous birthdays and birth anniversaries February 13
1766: Thomas Robert Malthus, an English cleric, scholar, and influential economist.
1835: Mirzā Ghulām Ahmad, the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam.
1879: Sarojini Naidu, an Indian political activist, and poet.
1894: V.C.Bendre, a historian and author.
1911: Faiz Ahmad Faiz, a Pakistani poet, and author in Urdu.
1945: Vinod Mehra, an Indian actor.
Death anniversaries– February 13.
1974: Ustad Amir Khan, an Indian classical vocalist and the founder of the Indore Gharana.
1977: Kozhikode Abdul Kader, an Indian playback singer who was active in Malayalam cinema.
2008: Rajendra Nath Malhotra, an Indian actor and comedian.
2012: Akhlaq Mohammad Khan, a Hindi film lyricist.
2016: O. N. V. Kurup, a Malayalam poet and lyricist from Kerala, India.