22 October in Hindu history
22 October 1764
Battle of Buxar
Buxar settled what Plassey began: the Company defeated the Nawab of Awadh, the deposed Nawab of Bengal and the Mughal emperor together, and took the right to collect the revenue of eastern Bharat.
22 October 2008
Chandrayaan-1 launched to the Moon
ISRO’s first lunar mission lifts off from Sriharikota on PSLV-C11. Its NASA-built instrument M3 found clear signs of water on the Moon’s surface, and the Moon Impact Probe struck the lunar south pole region.