| 1867 | Dar-ul-Uloom was established in 1867 in Deoband, Uttar Pradesh. |
| 1919 | Rabindranath Tagore returned the title 'Sir' in 1919 in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. |
| 1987 | Goa became the 25th full state in the country in 1987. |
| 2012 | Vishwanathan Anand became the World Chess Champion for the fifth time in 2012. |
| 1909 | Pandit Mukharam Sharma, the famous legend, screenplay and story writer of Indian Hindi films, was born in 1909. |
| 1606 | Guru Arjan Dev, the fifth Sikh Guru, died in 1606. |
| 1991 | Umashankar Dixit, a pioneer of the Indian Independence Movement, a priest of humanity and a pioneer of nationalism, died in 1991. |
| 1955 | N. M. Joshi died in 1955. Bo was the father of the 'Trade Union Movement' in India. |