| 1451 | Bahlol Lodi captured Delhi. |
| 1950 | Shyama Prasad Mukherjee becomes the first Minister to resign from the Union Cabinet. |
| 1975 | India enters the space age by launching its first satellite Aryabhata. It was the first scientific satellite of India. |
| 1882 | Start of first maternity hospital in Calcutta. |
| 1971 | India defeated the West Indies and won the Test cricket series. |