Discover what happened in India on this day
Gordon's Esplanade building was established in Calcutta's Bengal Club.
East India Railways were held for formal inauguration; Howrah station was opened.
Six language penel were started on the Rs. five dinomination. These notes were single sided and the back side could be used for accounting purposes. The six languages were Urdu, Bengali, Telugu, Kaithi, Kannada and Tamil. The paper used for printing was white hand made and moulded.
The Centre decides to place almost all items under the automatic approval route for foreign direct investment and NRI and OCB investments.
The first Fine Arts Exhibition by Brush Club was held in a Public Library of Calcutta.
Judge Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born.
Amrit Kaur, an eminent social worker, freedom fighter and political leader, was born a princess in the royal family of King Harman Singh of Kapoorthala. She assisted Gandhi for 18 years and was connected with World Health Organisation and Red Cross Society.
Jahangir Mohammed Khan, cricketer (father of Majid, Indian player 1932-36), was born in Jallundar.
Samar Roy, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1961-70, was born in Bengal.
Arun Tikekar, editor and writer, was born.
Ajaysingh Jadeja, cricketer (Indian opening batsman), was born in Jamnagar.
Gandhiji gives notice to the Viceroy Lord Reading during Bardoli movement to inform him that he was intensifying his action and non-cooperation was to be escalated to Civil Disobedience.
United Nation's Conference on Trade and Development opens in New Delhi.
Warren Hastings left India on Feb 8 and attended the Council meeting for the last time.
Pope John Paul II arrives in New Delhi for a 10-day visit.
PM Rao attends the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
A bomb, believed to be planted by Indian nationalists, is found at the British Museum at London.
17 Indian Division's were withdrawn over vast stretches and the British evacuation in Burma was the longest in British military history. The Division was to subsequently extract terrible retribution from the Japanese Army during World War II and to destabilise the Indian Economy with forged notes of 5, 10 and 100 Rupees.
No. 4 Squadron of the IAF was born in the war at Peshawar. The Squadron was first equipped with Lysander aircraft. The Second World War was in its third year and Japanese forces were advancing towards India's eastern frontiers.
No.1 Squadron arrived in Burma with its Lysanders, flying tactical recce missions from Toungoo before transferring to Mingaladon with a flight deployed at Lashio.
Muhammad Azharuddin created a world record at Kanpur by hitting a century in each of his first three test.
Muiz ud din Qaiqabad, was the tenth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty (Slave dynasty), was killed in his bed. He was proved to be an inefficient ruler.
Victor Paramjyoti, famous Indian music director, composer and critic, passed away.