• 1456 – The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
• 1608 – The first official English representative to India
lands in Surat.
• 1908 – Birth day of Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (Martyr on 1931)
• 1918 – Birthday of Sikander Bakht, Indian field hockey player and
politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (Death on 2004)
• 1947 – Birth day of Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author and songwriter
• 1940 – Death day of Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and
inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (Birth on 1860)