• National Voters' Day (India)
• 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.

• 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.

• 1980 – Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna


• 1994 – Death Day of Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (Birth : 1909)