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Historical Event on 1/17/1922

T. A. Pai, former Central Minister and bank expert, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/25/1999The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively.
1/28/1933India in Waldorf Hotel in London read out a four and a half page note in Cambridge.
2/26/1858Diwan Maniram and Piali Barua were hanged. (Grandson of Purandara Simha, the last Ahom king of Assam).
12/4/1661Murad Baksh was executed on the charge of murdering Diwan Ali Nagi.
1/2/1990Capt. Nivedita Bhasin, 26, becomes the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft.
10/20/1960Indian mountaineers reach the peak of Nanda Ghunti for the first time in the Kumaon Hills.
7/17/1948Govt. announced that all discriminations against women in matter of employment will be done away with and in future, women will be eligible for any public service including administrative sevice and police service.
2/23/1993India complete a 3-0 series drubbing of England.
3/21/1995Lok Sabha passes Patent Bill by amending the Patent (Amendment) Act 1970.
12/22/1998The National Award for the Best Technological Invention is conferred on Prof. J. R. Isaac, a computer scientist.