| 1947 | Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru suggested mutual transfer of 40 lakh Hindus and Muslims. |
| 1929 | Jatin Das died after 63 days of hunger strike in Lahore jail. |
| 1971 | The World Hockey Association was formed. |
| 1977 | The first diesel automobile was introduced by General Motors. |
| 2000 | India's top chess player Vishwanathan Anand won the first FIDE Chess World Cup in Shenyang. |
| 2008 | Four bomb blasts occurred one after another at three places in Delhi, killing 30 people and injuring more than 130. |
| 1948 | Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel ordered the army to enter Hyderabad and take action and integrate it with the Indian Union. |
| 2006 | The first summit of IBSA (India-Brazil-South Africa Trilateral Organization) begins in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil. |
| 2009 | ISRO-NASA's campaign to find ice on the moon failed. |
| 2009 | Charles Dias of Kochi was nominated as the representative of the Anglo Indian community in the Lok Sabha. |
| 1845 | Indian Cotton Congress President Henry Cotton was born. |
| 1926 | India's revolutionary woman Nagendra Bala was born. |
| 1929 | India's famous revolutionary Jatindranath Das died. |