Monday, March 17, 2025

Today In Indian History (17th March)

1920 - Birth of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 17 March 1920. Also known by the honorific Bangabandhu, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman and activist, who was the first president of Bangladesh.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was voted as the Greatest Bengali of all time in the 2004 BBC opinion poll. 

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed during a military coup in 1975, along with most of his family.

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