| 1875 | The freedom fighter of India and the first Home Minister of independent India Sardar Vallabh Patel was born |
| 1984 | The then Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi was shot dead by her bodyguards. |
| 1966 | India's famous swimmer Mihir Sen floated and crossed the Panama Canal. |
| 1943 | Indian scientist and former chairman of 'ISRO' G. Madhavan Nair was born. |
| 1960 | The cyclonic storm in the Bay of Bengal killed about 10,000 people. |
| 1975 | Sachin Dev Burman, a famous musician and singer of Bengali and Hindi cinema, passed away. |