| 1813 | The first boat race was held in Calcutta (now Kolkata). |
| 1977 | Giani Zail Singh was sworn in as the seventh President of India. |
| 1987 | Rangaswamy Venkataraman became the eighth President of India. |
| 1992 | SD Sharma became the ninth President of India. |
| 1997 | KR Narayanan became the tenth President of India. |
| 1844 | Birth of India's leading educationist Gurudas Banerjee. |