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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 8/22/1818 |
Warren Hastings, first Governor General of India (1773-84), died at the age of 85. |
| 8/22/1877 |
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka. |
| 8/22/1915 |
Shambhu Mishra, Bengali actor, director and playwright, was born. |
| 8/22/1919 |
Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born. |
| 8/22/1922 |
Alluri Seetaram Raju inspired and organised the tribals to wage a war against the British. Raju's army raided Chintapalli police station and there was regular warfare between him and the British forces. |
| 8/22/1933 |
Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years. |
| 8/22/1942 |
Harikrishna Kaul (Raja Pandit), administrator and Prime Minister of Jammu Kashmir and Patiyala, died. |
| 8/22/1979 |
Neelam Sanjeev Reddy, President of India, dissolves the sixth Lok Sabha, orders year-end general elections and asks Charan Singh to head a caretaker government. |
| 8/22/1980 |
Kishor Shahu, actor and director, died. |
| 8/22/1984 |
R. Venkataraman was elected the Vice President of India (1984 -1987). |
| 8/22/1987 |
Aircraft carrier ship of Indian Navy 'Virat' joined in fleet. |
| 8/22/1988 |
Gorkha National Liberation Front signs an accord with the Centre and West Bengal on formation of an elective hill Council for Darjeeling. |
| 8/22/1992 |
Congress (I) with its allies secures a simple majority in the Lok Sabha following the merger of Telugu Desam into the party. |
| 8/22/1993 |
Gundu Rao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, died. He was 56. |
| 8/22/1993 |
The first batch of IAF troops landed in the capital city of Mogadishu. |
| 8/22/1993 |
V P Singh leaves Delhi on a self-imposed exile vowing not to return until the government implemented job reservation for backward classes. |
| 8/22/1994 |
Two dozen Mahar soldiers were ambushed when the Indian contingent was trying to stem the war in Somalia. Seven, including a JCO, lost their lives. |
| 8/22/2000 |
Parliament okays two Constitutional Amendment Bills restoring relaxations in marks for promotion in government jobs to SC/STs and exempting Arunachal from reservation for SCs. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/17/1997 | Notorious criminal Charles Sobhraj released from jail after 20 years, and re-arrested soon after release under Foreigners' Regional Registration Act. |
| 10/3/1997 | Financial and operational autonomy to be given to 97 profit-making public sector enterprises ('mini-ratnas') other than the navaratnas. |
| 2/19/1949 | Mass arrests of communists in India. |
| 12/20/1931 | Leela Nag (Leela Roy), freedom fighter and editor of Jayshri, was arrested in Bengal for her association with ""Depali Sangh"" who supported Chatgang Ammunition Plot against the Bengal Government. |
| 4/14/1963 | Maha Pandit Rahul Sanskrityayan, great Hindi writer, politician and professor, passed away at Darjeeling. |
| 3/8/1941 | Sir Jorge Abraham Gearson, philologist and archealogist, passed away. |
| 3/22/1914 | M. L. Bhowmik, social reformer and politician, was born Kailashahar, Tripura. |
| 7/15/1986 | Sandhya Agarwal made 190 runs in third Womens Test Cricket setting a new record in England. |
| 5/13/1962 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963). |
| 1/5/1995 | PM gives valedictory address at the 8th World Tamil Conference in Madurai. |
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