| 1497 | On this day, Vasco de Gama left Europe to reach India with a team of 170 people on the way to the sea. |
| 1914 | Jyoti Basu, the chief minister of the world and the basis of leftist politics, was born for the longest time. |
| 2007 | The 9th Prime Minister of the country Chandrashekhar Singh died. |
| 1918 | The Montague Chelmsford Report was published in 1918 to reform the Indian Constitution. |
| 1954 | In 1954, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru started the hydroelectric project on Bhakra-Nangal in Punjab, the world's largest canal. |
| 1932 | Ghulam Hassan Sophie was born Indian singer |