| 1902 | The veteran socialist leader Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan was born. |
| 1916 | Social worker Chandika Amritrao Deshmukh was born. |
| 1942 | Bollywood emperor and century great Amitabh Bachchan was born in Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh. |
| 1987 | India's Peace Army launched Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka. The campaign was waged to liberate Jaffna by destroying the LTTE's occupation. |
| 1737 | An earthquake in Calcutta (now Kolkata) killed 3 lakh people, half the city was devastated by this natural disaster. |
| 2001 | Trinidad-born Indian-born British writer Vidyadhar Suraj Prasad Noypal was announced to be awarded the 2001 Nobel Literature Prize. |
| 1930 | Jawaharlal Nehru was released from Naini Central Jail. |
| 2008 | Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flagged off from Naogaon station and flagged off the first train to run in the valley of Kashmir. |