| 2008 | Renowned historian Romila Thapar was chosen for the Cluj honor. |
| 1888 | Birth of historian Ramesh Chandra Majumdar. |
| 1860 | Agustino Lawrenceo of Margao, Goa, received a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Paris. He became the first Indian to pursue a doctorate from a foreign university. |
| 1899 | For the first time, the vaccine of typhoid was used to protect humans from this disease. |
| 1919 | The twelfth Prime Minister of India, Indra Kumar Gujral was born. |
| 1984 | Hezbollah militants hijacked a Kuwait airline plane and killed four passengers. |
| 1984 | Hezbollah bombers hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane and kill 4 passengers. |
| 1910 | Ramaswamy Venkataraman, the eighth president of India, was born. |
| 1971 | The Indian Navy attacked the Pakistani Navy and Karachi. |