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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 |
| 11/14/1967 | Saba Karim, Indian ODI wicket-keeper 1997, was born. |
| 11/15/1913 | Ravindranath Tagore (1861-1941), received the message that he was awarded with Noble Prize in literature for his collection of poems ""Gitanjali"" . He was the first Indian to be awarded with Nobel Prize. (13 or 15) |
| 5/18/1912 | Narayan Govind Chitre, with the help of R. P. Tipnis and Cameraman Johnson, produced a 8000 ft. long theatrical film 'Pundalik', which was directed by Ramchandra Torney alias Dada Saheb Torne. The entire film was shot in a theatre at Mangaldas Wadi in Bombay, where the Sangit Mandali, a professional theatre group, was performing a play 'Pundalik'. The film was released on May, 18 in the Coronation Cinematograph at Girgaum, Bombay. |
| 4/23/2000 | Mumbai regains Ranji Trophy. |
| 7/5/1957 | Dr. Anugrah Narain Singh, great leader, freedom fighter, educationist and Minister of India, died.. |
| 7/22/1992 | Security scam: Planning Commission member V. Krishnamurthy resigns. |
| 6/24/1991 | The first-ever BJP ministry led by Kalyan Singh takes over in UP. |
| 3/8/1921 | Sahir Ludhiyanvi, famous film lyricist, was born. |
| 5/1/1897 | Vivekananda Swami established Ramakrishna Mission. |
| 6/22/1975 | National Emergency was declared and censorship introduced. |
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