Historical Events
- 2012 IPL Cricket Final, M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai: Kolkata Knight Riders beat Chennai Super Kings by 5 wickets; Manvinder Bisla top scores, 89 (48)
- 2017 In Bangalore, India, white puffy toxic foam begins spilling out of Varthur Lake onto city streets
- 2018 IPL Cricket Final, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai: Chennai Super Kings beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets; Shane Watson top scores, 117 no (57); SK’s 3rd IPL title
- 2020 Locust swarms in western and central India worst since 1993 after spreading from Pakistan and Iran and due to extreme weather
More Indian History
Famous Birthdays
- 1962 Ravi Shastri, Indian cricketer, all-rounder (1981-92), commentator and coach of India (2017-), born in Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Famous Deaths
- 1919 Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social reformer from Andhra Pradesh, dies at 71
Jawaharlal Nehru
1964 Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (1947-64) and important leader of the Indian independence movement, dies of an assumed heart attack at 74
- 2006 Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor (b. 1944)
