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22nd AUGUST 

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Events for August 22

22-August-1818	Warren Hastings, first Governor General of India (1773-84), died at the age of 85.
22-August-1877	Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka.
22-August-1915	Shambhu Mishra, Bengali actor, director and playwright, was born.
22-August-1919	Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born.
22-August-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.
22-August-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.
22-August-1942	Harikrishna Kaul (Raja Pandit), administrator and Prime Minister of Jammu Kashmir and Patiyala, died.
22-August-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.
22-August-1980	Kishor Shahu, actor and director, died.
22-August-1984	R. Venkataraman was elected the Vice President of India (1984 -1987).
22-August-1987	Aircraft carrier ship of Indian Navy 'Virat' joined in fleet.
22-August-1988	Gorkha National Liberation Front signs an accord with the Centre and West Bengal on formation of an elective hill Council for Darjeeling.
22-August-1992	Congress (I) with its allies secures a simple majority in the Lok Sabha following the merger of Telugu Desam into the party.
22-August-1993	Gundu Rao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, died. He was 56.
22-August-1993	The first batch of IAF troops landed in the capital city of Mogadishu.
22-August-1993	V P Singh leaves Delhi on a self-imposed exile vowing not to return until the government implemented job reservation for backward classes.
22-August-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.
22-August-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.