| Date | Event Name |
| 05/01/1867 |
Sri Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao Pantulu, great freedom fighter, journalist, nationalist, politician, pioneer in library movement and litterateur, was born at Elakurru village in Gudivada Taluk, District Krishna. |
| 05/01/1879 |
Swami Vivekanand established Ramkrishna Mission. |
| 05/01/1886 |
May Day was first observed in Chicago, USA. Work, Social activities, Rest, for 8 Hours. |
| 05/01/1897 |
Vivekananda Swami established Ramakrishna Mission. |
| 05/01/1902 |
Tornodo hit Dhaka part of Bengal, claims 416 lives. |
| 05/01/1908 |
Praful Chaki committed suicide after he threw a bomb on Judge Kingsford of Mujaffarpur, killing two inocent women. |
| 05/01/1909 |
Madame Bhikaji Cama secretly left London and went to France where she was wrote and spoke about the cruelty of Britishers. |
| 05/01/1913 |
Balraj Sahani, famous film actor, was born. |
| 05/01/1915 |
Rameshwar Shukla 'Anchal', modern Hindi poet, novelist and essay writer, was born. |
| 05/01/1922 |
Madhu Limaye, great politician, freedom fighter, writer and national leader, was born at Pune, Maharashtra. |
| 05/01/1923 |
Under the leadership of Singaravelu Chettiar, the first May day was celebrated in India. |
| 05/01/1926 |
Jim Corbett killed the notorious man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag at Gulabrai village, who had attacked and killed about 125 people. |
| 05/01/1927 |
Dr. Namwar Singh was born. |
| 05/01/1940 |
Marathi magzine `Digdarshan' was published. |
| 05/01/1946 |
Joanna Lumley, actress (Abs Fab, OHM's Secret Service), was born in Kashmir, India. |
| 05/01/1947 |
Congress Working Committee accepts Partition in principle. |
| 05/01/1948 |
Baroda State merged into Bombay Province. |
| 05/01/1958 |
Bell, 47 G3, the flight was upgraded to a helicopter unit with a Sqn Ldr as its Commanding Officer. |
| 05/01/1960 |
Old Bombay province was divided between Maharashtra and Gujrat States. |
| 05/01/1964 |
Ravishankar University was established at Raipur in Madhya Pradesh. |
| 05/01/1966 |
Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra. |
| 05/01/1972 |
All fuel coal mines were nationalised. |
| 05/01/1973 |
All non-fuel Coal Mines fields were nationalised. |
| 05/01/1977 |
Janata Party was established. |
| 05/01/1981 |
Sindhudurga district was formed in Maharashtra State. |
| 05/01/1983 |
Amravati University established. |
| 05/01/1983 |
V. N. Swamy, pace bowler without distinction in one Test for India, passed away. |
| 05/01/1987 |
The Bofors Deal. |
| 05/01/1992 |
Seperate secretariat was established for primary education. |
| 05/01/1992 |
C. Arjun, famous music director, passed away. |
| 05/01/1993 |
Narayan Ganesh Goray, socialist stalwart, 86, passed away in Pune. |
| 05/01/1994 |
Political party Shiromani Akali Dal was established. |
| 05/01/1994 |
Six leading Akali factions dissolved to form a new party, the Shiromani Akali Dal-Amritsar, which wanted a 'Sikh State'. |
| 05/01/1995 |
60 killed as Madras-Kanyakumari Express collides with a goods train at Danishpet. |
| 05/01/1995 |
SAARC endorses South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and establishes a South Asian Development Fund (SADF) for the economic and technical development of the subcontinent. |
| 05/01/1996 |
Ban imposed (through a Delhi high court judgment) on the film 'Bandit Queen', based on the life of Phoolan Devi, lifted by Supreme Court. |
| 05/01/1996 |
International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title. |
| 05/01/1996 |
P. Shiv Shanker, Kerala Governor, resigns in view of the ongoing CBI investigation against him in the hawala case. |
| 05/01/1996 |
Motilal Vohra, U.P. Governor, resigns (hawala case). |
| 05/01/1997 |
Abhijit Kunte wins National `A' chess championshop for men. |
| 05/01/1997 |
Anand wins all three categories in Amber chess tournament in Monte Carlo. |
| 05/01/1998 |
The Konkan Railway running for 760-km is dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This was an extention from Ratnagiri. |
| 05/01/1998 |
India and Peru sign agreements on space technology and agriculture during the visit of Indian President K. R. Narayanan there. |
| 05/01/1999 |
India retained the SAFF Coca-Cola football title in Margao, beating Bangladesh in the final. |
| 05/01/2000 |
Bidyut Ganguly (64), veteran CPI(M) leader and West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister, died of severe burns in Calcutta. |
