| 1784 | Treaty between the British and Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore. |
| 1951 | President Rajendra Prasad inaugurated the newly constructed Somnath Temple. |
| 1962 | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was elected the President of India. He succeeded Dr. Rajendra Prasad. |
| 1998 | India announced three nuclear tests at Pokaran in Rajasthan. |
| 2000 | According to the population clock, India's population reached one billion. |
| 2007 | The Bahujan Samaj Party secured a majority in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections and party leader Mayawati took over as the chief minister. |
| 1960 | The first contraceptive pill market was made available in 1960. |
| 2005 | In 2005, the World Bank appointed a neutral expert on the Baglihar project to settle Indo-Pak differences. |
| 2011 | India and Pakistan agreed to start a bus service between Lahore and Amritsar. |
| 1918 | India's famous classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai was born in 1918. |
| 2002 | Princess of Bhopal politics and India's first female pilot Abida Sultan died in 2002. |