Historical Events
- 1910 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops
- 1962 India Congress Party wins elections
- 1995 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed)
Polio
2012 World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countries
More Indian History
Famous Birthdays
- 1894 Meher Baba, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1969)
- 1948 Danny Denzongpa, Indian actor
- 1974 Divya Bharti, Indian actress who starred in Hindi and Telugu movies in the early 1990s (Shola Aur Shabnam, Deewana), born in Mumbai, Maharastra, India (d. 1993)
- 1981 Shahid Kapoor, Indian actor (Ishq Vishk), born in New Delhi, India
Famous Deaths
- 2008 Hans Raj Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India (b. 1912)
