17th January – What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

Today In History? 

Find out what happened on 17th January in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred 17th January

Javed Akhtar  is a poet, lyricist and scriptwriter from India. Akhtar is a main stream writer and some of his most successful work was carried out in the late 1970s and 1980s with Salim Khan as half of the script-writing duo credited as Salim-Javed
Honey Irani is an award-winning Indian screenwriter. Honey Irani was born into a Zoroastrian family on January 17, 1950. She was married to Javed Akhtar. Although the marriage ended in divorce, it produced two children, son Farhan Akhtar and daughter Zoya Akhtar.
Karan Kapoor, an Indian actor and model of the 1980s, is a member of the famous Kapoor family, an influential film dynasty in India’s Bollywood cinema. He was born on January 17, 1962. He is the son of the famous actor Shashi Kapoor and actress Jennifer Kendal.
Bindu is an actress in Indian cinema who was most popular, receiving several award nominations, in the 1970s. She has acted in over 160 movies in a career that spanned four decades. Bindu was born to film producer Nanubhai Desai and his wife Jyotsna at a small village called Hanuman Bhagda in the district of Valsad in the Western Indian state of Gujarat
Tapasvi Mehta is an Indian actor and musician who made his debut in the Disney Channel India show, Ishaan. Mehta started his acting career at the age of 12. His first role was in the Disney Channel India show, Ishaan. Mehta played the main character, Ishaan.

Death anniversaries on 17th January

Suchitra Sen  or Rama Dasgupta (listen: Roma Dashgupto (help·info)) (born 6 April 1931), is an Indian actress who acted in several Bengali films. In particular, the movies in which she paired opposite another legend in Bengali films
Jyoti Basu  also Jyotirindra Basu) was an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from West Bengal, India. He served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000, making him the longest-serving Chief Minister of any Indian state
Terence Hanbury White was an English author best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958. White was born in Bombay, British India to English parents, Garrick Hanbury White, an Indian police superintendent, and Constance White.
Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin is the 52nd Dā‘ī l-Muṭlaq (Dai, or Unrestricted Missionary) of the Dawoodi Bohras. The Dawoodi Bohras are a sub group within the Mustaali, Ismaili Shia branch of Islam
Leela Mishra was an Indian film actress, who worked as a character actor in over 200 Hindi films for five decades, eventually playing stock characters like aunts (Chachi or Mausi). She is most known for her role of mausi in blockbuster, Sholay (1975) and Rajshri Productions hits like Geet Gaata

Notable Events:

1601 Akbar, after eight month’s siege, entered Asirgarh one of the strongest forts in India.
1771 Govind Patwardhan Mirajkar, first Rao of Peshwai, passed away.
1833 William Rush, Indian sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), passed away.
1888 Babu Gulab Rai, famous Hindi essy writer, critic and historian, was born.

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