Discover what happened in India on this day
Swami Dayanand Saraswati established the Arya Samaj at Bombay and in 1877 in Lahore.
Police raid the headquarters of the Indian National Congress, Bombay.
Balasaheb Vikhe Patil, who worked in the region of Sahkar and Education, was born.
Vasudevaru Kesavaru (K.V. Manalikkera), famous writer and poet, was born at Madras.
The marketing of Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Moor's Last Sigh' in India was cleared by the Central govt.
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village.
Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1A) launched. First operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite procured from U.S.A.(Cape Canaveral).
Announcement of UP's 70th new district to be re-named after Jyotiba Phule.
Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world.
Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, announces Rs. 2.5 crore aid to Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Gandhi Institute of Computer Education and Information Technology, Mumbai.
Delhi High Court bans the import of toxic waste in India.
Miss Mercia Sherwood, an English teacher, was assaulted by a mob in Amritsar. Brig. General. R.E.H. Dyer had given instructions to beat her.
Saint Gora Kumbhar, an intense devotee of the deity Vitthal at Pandharpur, took Samadhi in Ter village in Osmanabad Zilla, near Latur.
Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, passed away at the age of 75.
Shridhar Vyanktesh Ketkar, creator of Maharashtra Gyankosh and Sociologist, passed away.
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai, first non-Congress Prime Minister of India (1977-79) and Chief Minister of Bombay, passed away at the age of 99. He was awarded with Bharat Ratna.