| 1933 | Nationalist leader Mohan Sen Gupta died. |
| 1918 | Indralal Rai, India's first skilled pilot, was killed in a battle with Germany in London during the First World War. |
| 1947 | The Constituent Assembly adopted the Tricolor as the national flag of the country. |
| 1981 | Apple, India's first geostationary satellite, started functioning. |
| 2012 | Pranab Mukherjee elected the 13th President of India. |
| 1999 | The Work Plan for Equal Remuneration for Equal Work by the International Labor Organization came into force in 1999. |
| 2009 | The longest total solar eclipse of the 29th century was the solar eclipse of 22 July 2009. |
| 1968 | India's famous female physician, social worker and recipient of Padma Bhushan, Muttu Lakshmi Reddy died in 1968. |