Historical events.

1451: Bahlol Khan Lodi captured Delhi.

1526: Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire, laid the foundations of the Mughal rule.

1770: Captain James Cook became the first Western man to reach Australia.

1775: Beginning of the American Revolutionary war.

1910: Anant Kanhere, Krishnaji Karve, and Vinayak Deshpande were executed.

1948: Burma joined the United Nations.

1975: Aryabhata, India’s first satellite, launched from the Russian space station.

2011: Fidel Castro resigned as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961

Famous birthdays

1868: Paul Harris, founder of the Rotary Club.

1933: Dickie Bird, an English retired international cricket umpire.

1956: Mukesh Rishi, an Indian actor.

1957: Mukesh Ambani, an Indian billionaire business magnate, and the chairman, managing director, and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Ltd.

1968: Arshad Warsi, an Indian film actor.

1977: Anju Bobby George, a retired Indian athlete. 

1987: Maria Sharapova, a Russian retired professional tennis player

Death anniversaries

1882: Charles Darwin, an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist.

1906: Pierre Curie, a French physicist.

1910: Anant Laxman Kanhere, an Indian independence fighter.

1955: Jim Corbett, a British hunter, tracker, naturalist, and author.

1974: Muhammad Ayub Khan, the second President of Pakistan.

2003: Mirza Tahir Ahmad, the fourth caliph and the head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. 

2004: Norris McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of World Records.

2008: Sarojini Babar, an Indian-Marathi writer, and politician.