| 1908 | Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki threw a bomb to kill the Kingsford magistrate in Muzaffarpur, but two were killed by innocent bombs. |
| 1863 | The Indian naval of the East India Company was sent to the British Navy. |
| 1991 | The volcano was active in Andaman. |
| 2006 | The Indian subcontinent hosted the 2011 Cricket World Cup in 2006. |
| 2008 | The driverless aircraft "Lakshya" was successfully tested in 2008 from Chandipur beach in Balasore district of Odisha. |
| 2010 | Dev Anand, an evergreen actor of Hindi films, was honored with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2010 and Pranco "Phalke Icon" in Mumbai. |
| 1870 | The birth of Dadasaheb Phalke, the famous film producer-director and screenwriter of India. |