| 1920 | The great mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujam passed away. |
| 1975 | Sikkim became the 22nd state of India. |
| 1847 | The Bombay Gadget newspaper was first published in 1841 on silk cloth. |
| 1929 | The first non-stop flight from England to India was completed in 1929. |
| 1980 | Situated in 1980, the Center for Positional Astronomy was established in Calcutta (now Kolkata). |
| 1990 | In 1990, VRP Menon set a world record by performing disco dance for 463 hours in a row. |
| 1993 | A 1993 Boeing-737 plane crash in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, killed about 60 people. |
| 2006 | India and Uzbekistan signed 6 treaties in 2006. |
| 2008 | Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dedicated the 390 MW Dul Hasti Hydel Power Project in Jammu and Kashmir to the country in 2008. |
| 2010 | The Bihar government decided in 2010 to brand Bihar's famous Chiniya banana as 'Ganga Banana'. |
| 1864 | Pandit Gurudutt Vidyarthi, a disciple of Swami Dayanand Saraswati and one of the five prominent leaders of the Arya Samaj, was born. |