| 2011 | The country's famous nuclear physicist PK Iyengar died. |
| 1911 | The first indigenous bank, Central Bank of India, was founded by Sorabji Pochkhanwala. |
| 1898 | The chemists Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium. |
| 2008 | Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan were included in the list of 50 powerful people of the world by US magazine News Bik. |
| 2009 | The first meeting of the Finance Committee and Executive Board (BoG) of Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi was held. |
| 1974 | INS Satavahana, the country's first vessel to offer submarine training, was inducted into the ship fleet at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. |
| 2012 | "Gangnam Style" became the first video to be viewed one billion times on YouTube. |