| 1912 | The first Indian feature length film Sri Pundalik was released. |
| 1974 | India became a nuclear power country with its first underground atomic bomb test in Pokhran, Rajasthan. The trial was named 'Smiling Buddha'. |
| 2008 | Indian-origin writer Indra Sinha was awarded the Commonwealth Award in 2008 for her book Animal People. |
| 1914 | S. Tenth Governor of Reserve Bank of India. Jagannathan was born. |
| 1933 | HD Deve Gowda, the twelfth Prime Minister of India was born. |
| 1966 | India's famous botanist Panchanan Maheshwari died. |
| 1974 | Pokhran Nuclear Blast Day |