On This Day
17 July
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1489 Sikandar Shah was crowned Sultan of Delhi.
- 1946 Lalitha Lenin, poet in Malayalam, was born. She was also the Head of the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.
- 1948 Women in the country were declared eligible in any type of civil services including the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service.
- 1996 M. Karunanidhi, the then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu announced in the state assembly that the state capital of Madras would from then on be known as Chennai.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1453 France defeats England at Castillon, France, ending the Hundred Years' War.
- 1790 Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher, called the "father of economics" because of his theories on capitalism, free markets, and supply and demand, died in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
- 1841 The British humour magazine Punch was first published.
- 1898 Spain surrendered to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, ending the Spanish-American War.
- 1955 Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
- ⭐ Significance
- World Day for International Justice, also referred to as Day of International Criminal Justice or International Justice Day, is an international day celebrated throughout the world on July 17 as part of an effort to recognize the emerging system of international criminal justice.
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