| 1934 | The process of sending Paracel by airplanes for the first time began. It was started by the company which is today known as Lufthansa. |
| 1963 | Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan was born. |
| 1916 | Banaras Hindu University started. |
| 1988 | The first nuclear submarine (INS Chakra) joined the Indian Army. |
| 2008 | There are indications that the stolen Nobel Prize of poet Guru Ravindra Nath Tagore was in Bangladesh. |