On This Day
17 March
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1527 Battle of Khanwa, a decisive engagement between the Mughal forces under Babur and the Rajput alliance under Rana Sanga of Mewar, took place. Though the Rajputs gave the Mughals a very hard time, the latter won the battle, and the victory consolidated the new Mughal dynasty in India.
- 1959 After the Chinese occupation of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, spiritual and political leader, then 23, disguised himself as a soldier and left Lhasa in the dead of night. He arrived in India on a yak on March 31.
- 1962 Kalpana Chawla, Indian American astronaut and engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to go to space, was born in Karnal, Haryana.
- 1982 Kerala was placed under President's rule for 67 days.
- 1987 Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar retired from Test cricket.
- 1990 Saina Nehwal, professional badminton player, was born. A former world no. 1, she has won 24 international titles, which includes ten Superseries titles.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 0180 Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who became a symbol in the West of the Golden Age of the Roman Empire, died at the age of 58.
- 1898 John Philip Holland achieves successful test run for the first modern submarine off Staten Island, submerging for 1 hour 40 minutes.
- 1901 At a show in Paris, 71 Vincent van Gogh's paintings cause a sensation, eleven years after his death.
- 1905 Albert Einstein finishes his scientific paper detailing his Quantum Theory of Light, one of the foundations of modern physics.
- 1969 Golda Meir was sworn in as prime minister of Israel.
- 1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3.
- 1992 Nearly 69 percent of white South African voters backed F W de Klerk's reforms—which included the repeal of racially discriminatory laws—and effectively endorsed the dismantling of apartheid.
- 2003 Two days prior to the US invasion of Iraq President George W. Bush gave a final ultimatum to Saddam Hussein that he had 48 hours for him and his sons to leave Iraq.
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