British sailor Sir Francis Chichester returned home in 1967 after circumnavigating the globe alone.
Pakistan conducted its first nuclear test in 1998.
Ian Fleming, author of the spy novel James Bond, was born in 1908.
Hindutva leader and poet Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was born in 1883.
The All India Trade Union Congress was formally split in 1970.
Marthakavli David became India's first and the world's second woman Christian priest in 1989.
Khizr Khan captured the Sultanate of Delhi in 1414 and laid the foundation of the Sayyid dynasty's rule.