October 22
October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 70 days remaining.
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Events
- 362 - The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
- 1383 - The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: A period of civil war and disorder began when King Fernando died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne.
- 1575 - Foundation of Aguascalientes.
- 1746 - The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
- 1797 - One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
- 1836 - Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
- 1844 - The Great Disappointment: the second coming of Jesus and the end of the World failed to take place, despite the predictions of William Miller, disillusioning many adherents of Millerism.
- 1878 - The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
- 1883 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust (opera).
- 1907 - Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
- 1910 - Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
- 1924 - Toastmasters International is founded.
- 1934 - In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.
- 1943 - Kassel: RAF conducts an air raid on the city of 236,000 people, killing 10,000, rendering 150,000 homeless. Second firestorm raid in Germany
- 1953 - Laos gains independence from France.
- 1956 - A concrete girder weighing 200 tons kills 48 in Karachi, Pakistan.
- 1957 - Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
- 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy announces that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
- 1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.
- 1964 - Canada: A Mult-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
- 1966 - The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
- 1968 - Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
- 1968 - Hard rock band Led Zeppelin release the classic album Led Zeppelin II, featuring the hit single "Whole Lotta Love."
- 1972 - Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris. Thieu rejects the proposal and accused the United States of conspiring to undermine his regime
- 1975 - Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, is given a general discharge after appearing in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline (printed in all uppercase) "I Am A Homosexual."
- 1976 - Red dye #4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
- 1981 - The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
- 1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.
- 1989 - Jacob Wetterling is abducted in St. Joseph, Minnesota.
- 1999 - Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
Births
- 1071 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and vernacular poet
- 1511 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)
- 1688 - Nadir Shah (d. 1747)
- 1809 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
- 1811 - Franz Liszt, composer (d. 1886)
- 1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, actress (d. 1923)
- 1844 - Louis Riel, Canadian politician (d. 1885)
- 1870 - Alfred Douglas, partner of Oscar Wilde
- 1887 - John Reed, radical journalist (d. 1920)
- 1903 - Curly Howard, actor, comedian, member of the Three Stooges (d. 1952)
- 1904 - Constance Bennett, actress (d. 1965)
- 1907 - Jimmie Foxx, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1967)
- 1917 - Joan Fontaine, actress
- 1919 - Doris Lessing, British writer
- 1920 - Timothy Leary, writer, drug guru (d. 1996)
- 1922 - Lev Yashin, Soviet football goalkeeper (d. 1990)
- 1925 - Dory Previn, songwriter
- 1936 - Bobby Seale, civil rights activist, member of the Black Panthers
- 1937 - Alan Ladd Jr., film producer
- 1938 - Derek Jacobi, actor
- 1938 - Christopher Lloyd, actor
- 1943 - Jan de Bont, film director
- 1943 - Catherine Deneuve, actress
- 1945 - Leslie West, American musician
- 1946 - Kelvin MacKenzie, British media tycoon
- 1948 - Lynette Fromme, follower of cult leader Charles Manson and attempted assassin of President Ford
- 1949 - Stiv Bators, American musician, punk rock singer with The Dead Boys (d. June 3, 1990)
- 1949 - Arun Jain, Indian Industrialist
- 1949 - Arsène Wenger, Arsenal football manager
- 1942 - Annette Funicello, actress
- 1953 - Jeff Goldblum, actor
- 1956 - Marvin Pierce Bush
- 1963 - Brian Boitano, figure skating champion
- 1964 - Drazen Petrovic, Basketball Hall of Famer (d. 1993)
- 1965 - John Wesley Harding, musician
- 1967 - Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer
- 1968 - Shaggy, musician
- 1973 - Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball star, American League MVP and Rookie of the Year in 2001
- 1975 - D-Lo Brown, professional wrestler
Deaths
- 741 - Charles Martel, leader of the Franks, grandfather of Charlemagne (b. 686)
- 1383 - King Fernando of Portugal (b. 1345)
- 1859 - Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (b. 1784)
- 1906 - Paul Cezanne, French painter (b. 1839)
- 1917 - Bob Fitzsimmons, boxer
- 1928 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia
- 1934 - Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster
- 1935 - Komitas, Armenian composer
- 1973 - Pau Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor
- 1978 - John Riley, poet (murdered)
- 1979 - Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (b. 1887)
- 1992 - Cleavon Little, actor
- 1995 - Sir Kingsley Amis, writer
- 1998 - Eric Ambler, novelist
- 2002 - Queen Geraldina of the Albanians
Holidays
- International Stuttering Awareness Day
- International Caps Lock Day
- The Feast of St. Donatus
External links
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