17 January in Hindu history
17 January 1872
17 January 1941Namdhari Kukas blown from guns at Malerkotla
After a Kuka raid on Malerkotla, the Deputy Commissioner has forty-nine Namdhari Sikhs blown from cannon without trial, and sixteen more the next day. Their leader Satguru Ram Singh, who had urged boycott of British goods, is exiled to Burma.
Subhas Bose escapes from Calcutta
Under house arrest at his Elgin Road home, Subhas Chandra Bose slips out at night disguised as a Pathan insurance agent and reaches Kabul and then Berlin.