| 1997 | Prime Minister IK Gujral resigned from his post. |
| 1962 | KCde, the famous blind singer of Bengal, died. |
| 1996 | Captain Indrani Singh became the first woman to command an Airbus A-300 aircraft. |
| 1927 | Famous Indian physician Pramod Karan Sethi was born. |
| 1890 | India's great thinker, social worker and revolutionary Jyotiba Phule died. |