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The date of 22 August is recorded in the history of the country and the world for many important reasons. This date is also related to India's freedom movement. On 22 August 1921, Mahatma Gandhi raised the slogan of Swadeshi by burning foreign clothes and started a different kind of protest against the British. This date also has special significance for the sports world. India's Rahi Sarnobat achieved a great feat by winning the gold medal in the 25 meter pistol shooting of the Asian Games on 22 August 2018. She became the first Indian woman to win a gold medal in the shooting event of the Asian Games.
important events
1320: Nasiruddin Khusrau was defeated by Ghazi Malik.
1639: The British East India Company founded Chennai (then Madras), the capital of Tamil Nadu.
1848: America occupies New Mexico.
1849: Austria attacked the Italian city of Venice with unmanned balloons. This is said to be the first air attack in history.
1851: Gold mines were discovered in Australia.
1910: Japan occupies Korea after protecting it for five years.
1914: First encounter between British and German troops in Belgium.
1921: Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi burnt foreign clothes.
1979: Then President of India Neelam Sanjiva Reddy dissolved the Lok Sabha.
2002: SAARC Foreign Ministers' Conference concludes in Kathmandu.
2002: Air crash in Nepal. 16 people killed.
2007: Egyptian archaeologists discovered human footprints dating back nearly 2 million years in the Siwa region of the Western Desert.
2007: Space shuttle Endeavour, on a two-week mission to repair the International Space Station, landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
2008: Madhya Pradesh government decided to abolish simple forest offence cases and compensation recovery for forest dwellers.
2012: 47 people were killed in the Syrian civil war.
2012: War between two tribal groups in Kenya. 48 people killed.
Birth
1877: India's well-known art connoisseur Anand Kumar Swami.
1919: Famous poet and playwright Girija Kumar Mathur.
1915: Playwright and stage actor Sombhu Mitra.
1924: Famous Hindi writer Harishankar Parsai. He is the first writer who gave satire the status of a genre and linked it to the wider questions of society by rescuing it from the traditional confines of light-hearted entertainment.
1935: Reva Prasad Dwivedi, a great scholar of Kashi.
1955: Famous film actor and politician Chiranjeevi.
demise
1818: Warren Hastings, the first Governor General of India during the British period.
1959: Justice Syed Fazal Ali, former Governor of Assam and Odisha.
1978: Jomo Kenyatta, first President of Kenya.
1993: Former Chief Minister of Karnataka R. Gundu Rao.
2014: UR Ananthamurthy, famous Kannada writer, awarded the Jnanpith Award.
2017: Former Manipur Chief Minister Rishang Keishing.
2018: Congress leader Gurudas Kamat.
