22 August - India on this day17 events

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka.

Shambhu Mishra, Bengali actor, director and playwright, was born.

Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born.

Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years.

Aircraft carrier ship of Indian Navy 'Virat' joined in fleet.

The first batch of IAF troops landed in the capital city of Mogadishu.

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.

Kishor Shahu, actor and director, died.

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.

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

Harikrishna Kaul (Raja Pandit), administrator and Prime Minister of Jammu Kashmir and Patiyala, died.

Gundu Rao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, died. He was 56.

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.

R. Venkataraman was elected the Vice President of India (1984 -1987).

Gorkha National Liberation Front signs an accord with the Centre and West Bengal on formation of an elective hill Council for Darjeeling.

Congress (I) with its allies secures a simple majority in the Lok Sabha following the merger of Telugu Desam into the party.

V P Singh leaves Delhi on a self-imposed exile vowing not to return until the government implemented job reservation for backward classes.