1502
Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut, India for the second time.
1883
Swami Dayanand Saraswati, founder of Arya Samaj, died in Ajmer.
1961
Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb named Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated.
1966
First meeting of the Shiv Sena at Shivaji Park.
1990
Several people died and many injured as security forces opened fire at a crowd marching towards Ram Janmabhumi/Babari Masjid to perform ‘karseva’.
1997
Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona announces his retirement from football on his 37th birthday
1999
A super cyclone struck Odisha, causing widespread destruction, with at least 10,000 lives lost and an estimated 1.5 million people rendered homeless.