EVENTS: In 1757 British troops under Robert Clive defeated the Nawab of Bengal at the Battle of Plassey; in 1980 Sanjay Gandhi, the son of the Indian Prime Minister, was killed while performing aerobatics in a light plane that went out of control and crashed.
BIRTHS: The Duke of Windsor, who, as King Edward VIII, reigned January 20, 1936 to December 11, 1936, born White Lodge, Richmond Park, 1894; Robin Milford, composer, born 1903; Jean Anouilh, dramatist, born Bordeaux, 1910.
DEATHS: Mark Akenside, poet and physician, died in London, 1770; Sir James Hall, geologist, died in Edinburgh, 1832; Lady Hester Stanhope, traveller and eccentric, died in Djouni, Mount Lebanon, 1839; Patrick Chalmers, antiquary, died in Rome, 1854; Cecil James Sharp, musician and founder of the