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Historical Event on 10/22/1764

The Battle of Buxar was fought between armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal; the Nawab of Awadh; and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and British East India Company led by Hector Munro.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1909Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (Indian batsman & wicket-keeper 1936-46), was born in Bombay.
6/23/1984An Air-India jumbo jet plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland today, killing all 329 people on board. Indian officials said the crash apparently was caused by a bomb placed aboard the jetliner by a Sikh extremist group as retaliation for an army raid.
11/30/1995G. Umapati, filmmaker, died.
8/21/1988500 killed near the Nepal border in an earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale.
3/11/1963First Railway Engine was produced by Chittaranjan Railway Factory.
2/13/1970Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48 people at a village 80-km from New Delhi.
7/20/1829Jankibai passed away in jail.
7/1/1781British troops defeated Hyder Ali's progress. He was checked by Eyree Coote after the battle of Porto Novo and becamed subdued.
5/12/1993Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away.
1/18/1950Batubhai Umarwadia, father of Gujrati literature's English type and drama writer, passed away.