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Historical Event on 6/17/1756
Nawab Sira-ud-Daulah attacked on Calcutta with 50,000 soldiers and captured it on June 21.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/18/1973 | A powerful underground explosion rocked India's desert of Rajasthan today, making India the sixth nation in history to set off a nuclear device. The blast, which took place at a depth of 330 feet, was in the range of 10-15 kilotons, smaller than the bomb exploded by the US at Nagasaki in World War II. India is signatory to the 1963 test ban treaty, and thus was prohibited from exploding the device on land or in the air. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi claimed the purpose of the test was peaceful and said 'such explosions may have their use in mining operations'. |
| 3/23/1986 | The first women's company of Central Reserve Police Force camp was raised in Durgapur. |
| 8/10/1901 | Narayan Pillai Gopala Pillai, great poet and educationist, was born in Quilon, Kerala. |
| 9/14/1919 | Nyalchand Shah, bowled 64-33-97-3 in the Test between India vs Pakistan, was born at Dhragandhara in Gujarat. |
| 7/20/1829 | Jankibai passed away in jail. |
| 12/30/1865 | Rudyard Kipling, famous English litterateur and author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), was born in Bombay. |
| 6/20/1997 | Basu Bhattacharya (65), film-maker, died in Mumbai. |
| 8/15/1947 | At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect. |
| 6/19/1995 | India and US officially launch Indo-US Commercial Alliance during US Trade Secretary's visit. |
| 7/15/1948 | Establishment of 'PEPS' (Patiyala and East Punjab States Union). |
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