| 1931 | 11th President of India A.K. P.J. Abdul Kalam was born. |
| 1932 | The Tata Company airplane took its first flight. After the acquisition by the Government of India, this company was called Air India. |
| 1997 | Arundhati Roy was selected for Britain's most prestigious Booker Prize for her novel 'The God of Small Things'. |
| 1949 | The state of Tripura was included in India. |
| 1988 | Ujwala Patil became the first Asian woman to travel the world through the sea. |
| 1998 | India's Fatima B was awarded the United Nations Award for the Eradication of Poverty. |
| 1686 | The Mughal ruler Aurangzeb signed a peace deal with Bijapur. |