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Historical Event on 11/17/1953
Sadanand Swaminathan, famous journalist, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/25/1995 | Bomb attack on a train in Assam; 27 soldiers killed. |
| 4/5/1984 | Rakesh Sharma,Squadron leader, becomes India's first spaceman when he is launched aboard Soyuz T-11 of Soviet Union. |
| 9/3/1993 | Pawar resigns from Lok Sabha to take up the newly won Maharashtra Legislative Council seat. |
| 3/21/1995 | A.K. Antony elected CM of Kerala. |
| 3/21/1995 | Guru Amardasji passed away. |
| 3/28/1916 | Ramkrishna Pillai, journalist and social reformer, passed away. |
| 9/15/1916 | Margaret Lockwood, film actress of 'Lady Vanishes' fame, was born in Karachi, India. |
| 5/25/1899 | Nazrul Islam, revolutionary and Bengali poet, was born in Churulia village of Burdwan district. |
| 6/19/1947 | Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay. |
| 7/23/1898 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, well known Bangla novelist, was born. |
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