Ruknud-din Firuz Shah, son of Emperor Iltutmish, was assassinated.
Kotamaraju Rama Rao, founder-editor of Lucknow's "National Herald", was born at Chirala. He was referred by Gandhiji as 'Fighting Editor'.
The Times reports failure of Gandhi Government negotiations on Transvaal laws.
Weekly 'Pratap' was published from Kanpur which was edited by Ganesh Shankar Vidyrarthi.
Padmnath Gohain, litterateur of modern Assamia Barua, was born.
Muhammad Iqbal, Urdu poet, was born in Sialkot (now in Pakistan).
Panchanan Maheshwari was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan. He studied the morphology, anatomy and embryology of some angiosperms, the class of plants which produce flowers with different embryological studies. He discovered species of plants like "Panchanania Jaipuriensis and Isoeted Panchananil".
Laxmi Poruri, guntur India and tennis star (1994 Futures-College Park), was born.
Administration of Mayurbhanj State taken over by the Government of India.
Tamil Nadu Assembly urges the Centre to amend Constitution to retain 69\% reservation for backward classes.
India rejects Pakistan's bid to internalise the Sir Creek issue at the bilaternal talks in New Delhi.
Dhondo Keshav Karve, social reformer and educationist Bharat Ratna awardee, died.
Film Federation of India chooses Malayalam film 'Guru' as official entry for Oscar awards.
Prof. Romila Thapar, historian, is elected to the highest British academic honour.
Subroto Mukherji, first Air Chief Marshall of Indian Air Force, suddenly died.
P. C. Joshi, former General Secretary of Indian Communist Party, passed away.
JD expels Gujarat CM Chimanbhai Patel and UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav from Legislative wings and primary membership of the party.
Vishwanath Pratap Singh resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India after losing the Vote of Confidence moved against him.
BJP asks Kalyan Singh to step down, chooses Ram Prakash Gupta as his successor.
The 17-day old Manohar Parrikar led BJP Government in Goa wins the trust vote.
Chandralekha resigns from IAS and joins Tamizhaga Wellatchi Iyyakkam (Tamil Movement for Good Government) led by Dr. Subramaniam Swamy.
Poonam Chibber, Miss Canada, crowned seventh Miss India Worldwide.