| 1750 | Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore, was born. |
| 1917 | Bose Research Institute was established in Calcutta (now Kolkata). |
| 1981 | The Bhaskar satellite was dropped. |
| 2016 | PV Sindhu won the first Super Series title after defeating Sun Yu of China in a three-game match in the final of the China Open Super Series. |
| 1989 | An Indian female freestyle wrestler Babita Phogat was born. |
| 2009 | Versatile genius, scholar, thinker and poet of many disciplines Shyam Bahadur Verma died. |