Year 1639
The British East India Company started the city of Madras (now Chennai).
AUGUST 22
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22 August: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 22 August.
Observances & Special Days
Madras Day (Chennai and Tamil Nadu, India)
Year 1848
America takes control of New Mexico.
Year 1894
Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
Year 1902
Establishment of Cadillac Motor Company.
Year 1902
Theodore Roosevelt was the first US president in motor vehicles.
Year 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.
Year 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.
Year 1941
Second World War - German forces surrounded Leningrad.
Year 1942
Second World War - Brazil calls the war against Germany at Itali.
Year 1944
World War II - The Soviet Union won Romania.
Year 1962
The determination to cut French President Charles de Gaulle is unsettling.
Year 1972
Zimbabwe has been sacked by the International Olympic Committee for an anti-racist policy.
Year 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.
Year 1984
R. Venkataraman was elected the Vice President of India (1984 -1987).
Year 1987
Aircraft carrier ship of Indian Navy 'Virat' joined in fleet.
Year 1988
Gorkha National Liberation Front signs an accord with the Centre and West Bengal on formation of an elective hill Council for Darjeeling.
Year 1992
Congress (I) with its allies secures a simple majority in the Lok Sabha following the merger of Telugu Desam into the party.
Year 1993
The first batch of IAF troops landed in the capital city of Mogadishu.
Year 1993
V P Singh leaves Delhi on a self-imposed exile vowing not to return until the government implemented job reservation for backward classes.
Year 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.
Born 1647
Producer of pressure cooker Dennis Pepin. (Death: 26 August 1713)
Born 1848
Founded by the founder of the Chicago Daily News, Melville Elia Stone (Death: 15 February 1929)
Born 1877
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka.
Born 1893
American writer Dorothy Parker was born.
Born 1904
Reformist Chinese leader Deng Xiao Ping was born. (Death: 19 February 1997)
Born 1915
Bengali dramatist, actor and director Shambhu Mitra is born. (Death: May 19, 1997)
Born 1915
The birth of James Hilier, the architect of the electron microscope. (Death: 15 January 2007)
Born 1919
Hindi poet Girijakumar Mathur was born. (Death: 10 January 1994)
Born 1918
Social worker Dr. Banu Koiyaji was born (Death: 15 July 2004)
Born 1920
An American surgeon, Dr. Joe Roth, who laid the foundation of cardiac surgery. Birth of Denton Kuli.
Born 1924
Harishankar Parsai, Indian writer, satirist and humorist (d. 1995)
Born 1935
Kathak-style dancer actor Pt. Gopikrishna was born. (Death: 18 February 1994)
Born 1955
Chiranjeevi, Indian film actor, producer and politician
Born 1964
born of Swedish tennis player Mets Willender.
Died 1350
French King Philip (VI) dies
Died 1607
Berthelm Gosnell passed away in London.
Died 1818
India's first Governor-General, Warren Hastings, dies (Born 6 December 1732)
Died 1942
Harikrishna Kaul (Raja Pandit), administrator and Prime Minister of Jammu Kashmir and Patiyala, died.
Died 1967
A birth control pill was created Gregory Goodwin Pintas died. (Born April 9, 1903)
Died 1978
Kenya's first President, Jomokoi Nyata, passes away. (Born October 20, 1893)
Died 1980
Kishore Sahu, film actor, and producer-director, passed away. (Born November 22, 1915)
Died 1980
McDonald's crew maker, James Smith McDonald passed away. (Born April 9, 18 99)
Died 1982
Eknath Ranade, architect of the Vivekananda Shila memorial at Kanyakumari, a revolutionary, freedom fighter passed away. (Born November 19, 1914)
Died 1985
Charles Gibson (historian), Historian of Mexico and its Indians, President of the American Historical Association (b. 1920)
Died 1989
Classical singer Pt of the Gwalior Gharana Krishnarao Shankar Pandit passes away (Born 26 July 1893)
Died 1993
Gundu Rao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, died. He was 56.
Died 1995
Composer, Trumpet Violinist Pt. Ramprasad Sharma passes away
Died 1999
Marathi film actress Suryakant Mandhare passes away.
Died 2014
U. R. Ananthamurthy, Indian author, poet, and playwright Born December 21, 1932)
Died 2018
Krishna Reddy Indian printmaker, sculptor and teacher (b. 1925)