Syed Muhammad Zamin Ali, great educationist, poet, editor, professor, writer and founder-member of the Hindustani Academy, was born at Mustafabad village in the Rae Bareli district of U.P.
Louis Mountbatten, last British Voiceroy and first Governor General of independent India, was born at England.
Sucheta Kriplani, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born.
Sikh high priests exonerate the Akali Dal leader and chief of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Gurcharan Singh Tohra, of charges of violating a ``Hukumnama'' (religious edict) issued by the Akal Takht, which prescribed a complete boycott of the members of the Nirankari missions for their ''blasphemous'' activities.
6th Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb arrested his father Shahjahan and put him in Agra Fort Jail.
No. 8 Squadron started functioning absorbing the remaining coastal defence flight personnel, and also issued with a vengeance to achieve operational status.
President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed signed the declaration of Emergency Rule in India. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi implemented the same very next day.
USA & India sign a new bilateral treaty for the extradition of fugitive offenders.
Dinsha Pirosha Madan, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, died.
India played their first official test match on the ground of Lords against England.
India won 'Prudential World Cup' Cricket Championship held in England after defeating West Indies.
India lifts the Asia Cup sub-junior hockey championship in Kuala Lumpur.
PSCB emerged men's and women's champions in the inter-institutional table tennis in Gandhidham.
The Government agrees to the bifurcation of the Telecom Ministry.
Satyendranath Datta, famous Bengali poet, passed away.
BJP bags eleven seats in the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, Congress (I) secures seven.
Mahadevan, SBI MD, sacked in the wake of his role in the securities scam.