Important Days
International Day of Charity
Important Events
1877 – American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
Birth/Birth Anniversary
1872 – V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1936)
1888 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India (d. 1975)
1910 – Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
1986 – Pragyan Ojha, Indian cricketer
Death/ Death Anniversary
1986 – Neerja Bhanot, Indian model and youngest recipient of country’s highest peacetime military award Ashok Chakra (b. 1963)
1991 – Sharad Joshi, Indian author and poet (b. 1931)
1995 – Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer, who mainly composed for Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam film and other films. (b. 1922)
1996 – Basil Salvadore D’Souza, Indian bishop (b. 1926)
1997 – Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian nun, missionary, and saint, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
2015 – Aadesh Shrivastava, Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1964)
2018 – Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian Gujarati writer and journalist (b. 1934)
