| Date | Event Name |
| 06/01/1786 |
Madras General Post Office started functioning. |
| 06/01/1790 |
A treaty was signed between Marathas, Britishers and Nizam. |
| 06/01/1819 |
William Carey, Ward and Marshman established the Serampore College in Bengal. |
| 06/01/1842 |
Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali officer and litterateur, was born. |
| 06/01/1874 |
East India Company was dissolved. |
| 06/01/1890 |
Sri Seeripi Anjaneyulu, journalist, social reformer and educationist, was born at Dharmavaram, Anantapur. |
| 06/01/1904 |
Four Language panel were used for Rangoon. This panel had languages namely Burmese, Urdu, Tamil and Chinese. |
| 06/01/1916 |
Lokmanya Tilak roared ''Freedom is by birthright'' at Ahmednagar. |
| 06/01/1927 |
Justice Savyasachi Mukherjee was born. |
| 06/01/1929 |
V. Shantaram, S. Fattehlal (Sheikh Syed Fattehlal), Vishnupant Damle and Keshavrao B. Dhaiber, alongwith Sita Ram Kulkami, founded the 'Prabhat Film Company' at Kolhapur. |
| 06/01/1930 |
First Indian luxurious fast train 'Deccan Queen' started from Victoria Terminus (CST) to Pune. |
| 06/01/1930 |
Baba Adhav was born. |
| 06/01/1933 |
Fortnightly 'Bal Sanmitra' was published. |
| 06/01/1938 |
Continental Publication' started. |
| 06/01/1944 |
M. V. Dhurandhar, famous master painter of Maharashtra, passed away. |
| 06/01/1944 |
Liladhar Jagudi, well known Hindi poet, passed away. |
| 06/01/1945 |
Tata Fundamental Research Institute was established. |
| 06/01/1947 |
Balbhimraj Gore, litterateur and Hindi critic, was born. |
| 06/01/1955 |
India's Untouchability (Offence) Act comes into force. |
| 06/01/1959 |
The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India. |
| 06/01/1959 |
National Aeronautical Research Laboratory (NARL) set up under CSIR with temporary offices in New Delhi. Dr. P. Nilakantan is appointed NARL's first Director. |
| 06/01/1959 |
N.G. Ranga resigned from the Indian National Congress and took up the leadership of the newly formed Swatantra Party. |
| 06/01/1964 |
Nava Paisa, established in 1947, was renamed as 'Paisa'. |
| 06/01/1964 |
Rashid Ghulam Muhammad Patel, cricketer (Indian pace bowler, better known for Lamba incident), was born in Sabarkantha. |
| 06/01/1970 |
Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act was enforced. This act was passed in 1969. |
| 06/01/1972 |
Space Commission and Department of Space was set up. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) brought under Department of Space (DOS). |
| 06/01/1980 |
AIADMK wins Tamil Nadu Assembly election; Congress (I) wins in U.P, M.P, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Maharashtra and Orissa. |
| 06/01/1992 |
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Academy established at Satara. |
| 06/01/1992 |
S.K. Datta became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/07/93). |
| 06/01/1993 |
Burkino Faso President Blaise Campaore visits India. |
| 06/01/1993 |
Premkumar Sharma, MLA of Bhartiya Janata Party, was assassinated. |
| 06/01/1993 |
Speaker disqualifies four Ajit group MPs. |
| 06/01/1995 |
Kanshi Ram (Bahujan Samaj Party) withdraws support to the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led government in UP and stakes claim to form a new government. |
| 06/01/1996 |
H.D. Deve Gowda's 21-member Central cabinet sworn in. |
| 06/01/1996 |
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, former President of India, passed away. |
| 06/01/1997 |
New postal rates effective; post card-25 p, inland letter-Re.1, envelope-Rs.2 and Registration-Rs.10. |
| 06/01/1997 |
Ghulam Rasool Wani, National Conference leader, kidnapped and shot dead by militants at Kaskot in Doda district, Jammu. |
| 06/01/1997 |
Union Minister for Forests and Environment, Prof. Saifuddin Soz announces Rs. 9 crore central package for afforestation and eco-development in J&K. |
| 06/01/1998 |
Finance Minister announced the Swadeshi budget. |
| 06/01/1998 |
Petrol price is raised by Re.1 per litre. |
| 06/01/1998 |
The Prasar Bharati Bill is introduced in the Lok Sabha to revive the Prasar Bharati Act, 1990. |
