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Historical Event on 8/22/1818

Warren Hastings, first Governor General of India (1773-84), died at the age of 85.

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6/24/1946Congress party rejects British plan for provisional govt. pending constitution in New Delhi.
8/16/1997Bodo extremists kill 13 villagers in Nalbari district in Assam.
9/10/1999Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final.
6/5/1995A three-week long, the first ever Indo-US joint army training exercise begins.
1/26/1926V. G. Kanitkar, famous Marathi literatteur, was born.
4/23/1968Bade Gulam Ali Khan, famous ghazal singer, passed away.
9/23/1996Sitaram Kesri elected provisional president of Congress (I).
2/26/1976V. S. Khandekar was honoured by Bhartiya Gyanpeeth Award for the novel 'Yayati'.
12/14/1955Henry Heras, famous artist and an active member of the Indian Historical Records Commission, died in Bombay.
9/4/1980Second Commonwealth Regional Heads of Government Conference in New Delhi.