Jumbangla Desk: Today is Monday, 17 June 2024 Eng. 03 Ashadha, 1431 Bengal. 10 Zilhaj, 1445 Hijri. Today is the 168th day of the year (169th in leap year) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 197 days left in the year.

Dear readers, take a look at the significant events that happened on this day in history.

event report

656 – Caliph Hazrat Usman (RA) was killed by an assassin.

1462 – Vlad III, infamous for horse-riding, attempted to assassinate the Turkish emperor Mahmud II. As a result, Mahmud was forced to leave Wallachia.

1497 – Michael Ann Gough's army is defeated by the forces of King Henry II of England at the Battle of Deptford Bridge.

1567 – Mary Queen of Scots captured by Scottish rebels.

1576 – Dutch independence movement leader William Silendy declares independence from Spain.

1579 – Sir Francis Drake declares England's sovereignty at New Albion.

1631 – Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan's wife dies. Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal in his memory.

1756 – Nawab Sirajuddaula launched an expedition to recover Calcutta from the British occupation.

1775 – First American War of Independence begins at Bunker Hill.

1885 – The Statue of Liberty was erected in New York Harbor.

1905 – Steam shipping on the River Thames begins in London.

1925 – The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Biological and Chemical Weapons is signed in Geneva.

1940 – The Soviet Union occupied Latvia.

1943 – Newt Gingrit, American politician, was born. He was a candidate for the Republican Party's nomination in the next presidential election.

1944 – The people of Iceland gain full independence from Denmark and celebrate this day as their national day every year.

1955 – Maulana Bhasani said Assalamu Alaikum to Pakistan in a public meeting at Paltan Maidan.

1967 – China developed the first hydrogen bomb.

1991 – Apartheid ends with a law passed by the South African Parliament.

1996 – South Asia Development Fund established.

1999 – Legendary leader Nelson Mandela steps down, handing over power to newly elected President Thabo Mbeki in South Africa.

the birth

1631 – Gauhar Ara Begum, Mughal princess and fourteenth and youngest child of Emperor Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal.

1882 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian pianist, composer and conductor.

1898 – M. C. Escher, a Dutch painter.

1902 – Alec Harwood, Australian cricketer.

1904 – Rafe Bellamy, American actor.

1920 – Setsuko Hara, Japanese actress.

1924 – Professor Amlan Dutt, eminent economist and thinker.

1929 – Tigren Petrosian, Armenian chess player.

1930 – Anup Kumar, Indian Bengali film actor; Brian Statham, English cricketer.

1940 – George Akerlof, American economist.

1942 – Mohamed ElBaradei, Vice President of Egypt and Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

1945 – Tommy Franks, US general.

1964 – Steve Rhodes, former English cricketer and coach.

1973 – Leander Page, Indian tennis player.

1980 – Venus Williams, American professional female tennis player.

1981 – Shane Watson, Australian cricketer.

1981 – Amrita Rao, a model and Hindi film actress.

1985 – Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot professional tennis player.

1987 – Kendrick Lamar, American rapper and songwriter.

1988 – Stephanie Rice, Australian swimmer.

1990 – Jordan Henderson, English footballer.

1995 – Clément Longley, French footballer.

1997 – KJ Apa, New Zealand actor.

death

656 – Uthman ibn Affan, the third Caliph of Islam.

1631 – Wife of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal in his memory.

1674 – Jeeja Bai, mother of Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire.

1839 – Lord William Bentinck, British military officer and administrator.

1858 – Lakshmi Bai, Queen of Jhansi and pioneer of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

1928 – Social worker, reformer, journalist, poet and politician Utkalmani Gopabandhu Das.

1940 – Arthur Harden, English biochemist.

1960 – French poet Pierre Roverdi.

1976 – Habibur Rahman, Bengali poet, children's writer and journalist.

1979 – Hubert Ashton, English cricketer and politician.

1985 – Georgia Hale, American silent film actress.

1996 – Thomas Samuel Kuhn, American intellectual.

2001 – Donald James Cram, American chemist.

2006 – Anwar Parvez, Bangladeshi composer, music director, and musician.

2009 – Ghaziul Haque, Bangladeshi writer, intellectual and linguist.

2012 – Rodney King, American died of police brutality.

2012 – Fauzia Wahab, Pakistani actress and politician.

2013 – Atiqul Haque Chowdhury, Bangladeshi playwright and producer.

2019 – Muhammad Morsi, Egyptian engineer, academic and politician, and fifth President of Egypt.

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