1861 | Rabindranath Tagore was born into a prosperous family in Calcutta. Tagore is the first person in Asia to receive the Nobel Prize. |
1907 | The first electric tram car operated in Bombay. |
1973 | The foundation stone of the new capital of Arunachal Pradesh was laid at Itanagar. |
1989 | Diplomatic contact between Britain and Iran broke in 1989 after an Iranian fatwa against Indian-origin writer Salman Rushdie. |
2002 | The International Religious Freedom Commission expressed serious concern over the violence in Gujarat. |
1889 | Renowned freedom fighter and founder of 'Hindustani Sevadal' N. s. Hardiker was born. |
1880 | The great Indian Sanskritist and scholar Pandit Pandurang Vaman Kane was born. |