| 1947 | After the partition of India and Pakistan, after the attack from Pakistan, the Hindu king of the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir decided to go with India on this day. |
| 1934 | All India Rural Industries Association was established under the patronage of Mahatma Gandhi. |
| 1947 | Raja Hari Singh agreed to merge Jammu and Kashmir with India. |
| 1969 | The first astronauts to step on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, came to Mumbai. |
| 1775 | Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last emperor of the Mughals was born in India. |
| 1890 | Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, who participated in the freedom struggle, was born. |
| 1943 | The cholera epidemic in Calcutta (erstwhile Kolkata) killed 2155 people in the third week of October. |
| 1962 | After the Chinese attack on India, the then President declared Emergency for the first time. |
| 1999 | The Supreme Court of India fixed life imprisonment for 14 years. |