| 1987 | Mizoram, India's northeastern state got the status of 23rd state. It was a part of the state of Assam before it became a union territory. |
| 1983 | A large-scale violence erupted before the assembly elections to be held in the north eastern state of Assam. It also led to the death of 600 people. |
| 1968 | The first heart transplant was done in 1968 at KEM Hospital in Mumbai. |
| 1950 | In 1950, Sharat Chandra Bose, the elder brother of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, passed away. |
| 1999 | Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee took a historic bus tour of Pakistan in 1999. |
| 1999 | The sports channel started on Doordarshan in 1999. |
| 1987 | Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram became the 23rd and 24th states of India in 1987. |
| 1986 | Himachal Pradesh became the 24th state of the Indian Union in 1986. |