Historical Events
Sports History
1948 Australian cricket captain Don Bradman scores 201 in 4th Test win v India in Adelaide; Sid Barnes 112 and Lindsay Hassett 198no in Australian total 674

- 1948 Test debut of Neil Harvey, v India at Adelaide
- 1957 Indian nationalist V. K. Krishna Menon begins the longest ever speech defending India’s stand on Kashmir at the UN – 8 hours over 2 days
- 1993 Indian Airlines B737 crashes at Aurangabad, killing 61
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- 1809 Veer Surendra Sai, Indian freedom fighter & tribal leader, born in Sambalpur district, India (d. 1884)
- 1897 Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian politician & nationalist, born in Cuttack, British India (d. 1945)