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Historical Event on 12/17/1914

Syed Mushtaq Ali Takub Khan, cricketer, prolific Indian batsman of 30's & 40's, was born in Indore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/16/1966Nandlal Bose, who established modern painting in Bengal, passed away.
2/18/1905Shyamji Krishna Varma established India House in London to help Indians visiting England. He also established the Indian Home Rule society, which helped him to raise his voice against British Domination in India.
3/10/1998A. B. Vajpayee agrees to form a government with 252 members including the BJP and it's allies.
1/22/1973Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationalist, passed away.
1/28/1937Suman Kalyanpurkar, famous singer, was born.
7/12/1920Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
2/27/1956G. V. Mavlankar, first speaker of Lok Sabha, passed away.
12/11/1968Indian born Har Govind Khorana receives the Nobel Price for medicine and physiology.
10/6/1985P.T. Usha sets record for 400m (Women) in 51.61 seconds at Canberra .
10/19/1888Namakkal Kavignar, Gandhian poet and painter, was born at Mohanur in Salem.