• 1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
• 1853 – Haraprasad Shastri’s Birth Day, Indian historian and scholar (Death On 1931)
• 1956 – Death Day of  B. R. Ambedkar, Indian economist and politician, 1st Indian Minister of Justice (Birth On. 1891)
B. R. Ambedkar

• 1971 – Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.