| 1756 | The British army led by Governor General Robert Clive recaptured Calcutta. |
| 1910 | The first All India Hindi Conference was organized in Varanasi under the chairmanship of Madan Mohan Malaviya. |
| 1906 | Indian novelist RK Narayan was born. |
| 1954 | Famous Indian actress Rekha was born. |
| 2011 | India's famous Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh passed away. |
| 1978 | Rohini Khadilkar became the first woman to win the national chess competition. |
| 1991 | India won the team title of the World Carrom Competition. |
| 1992 | The second Hooghly Bridge 'Vidyasagar Setu' opened. |
| 2014 | Nobel Prize was announced to Kailash Satyarthi of India. |