| 1915 | Popular painter of India Maqbool Fida Hussain was born. |
| 1867 | Birth of Indian artist Gaganendranath Tagore. |
| 1876 | Birth of great Bengali novelist Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay. |
| 1948 | The princely state of Hyderabad merged with India. |
| 1950 | Birth of Indian politician and current Prime Minister Narendra Modi. |
| 1956 | Constitution of Indian Oil and Natural Gas Commission. |
| 1982 | The first cricket Test match was played between India and Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka). |
| 1778 | The first treaty (Fort Pitt) was signed between the US and Indian tribes. |