| 1901 | Indian revolutionary Damodar Swaroop Seth was born. |
| 1856 | The East India Company took over Awadh. |
| 1968 | Jana Sangh founder, writer, journalist Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay was killed in Mughalsarai. |
| 1933 | The publication of Mahatma Gandhi's Harijan Weekly began in 1933. |
| 1966 | Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri died in Tashkent in 1966. |
| 1997 | Indian Astrophysicist Jayant V Narlikar awarded the 1996 Kalinga Prize in 1996 by UNESCO. |