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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362 - The temple of
Apollo at Daphne, outside of
Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious
fire.
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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.
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1575 - Foundation of
Aguascalientes.
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1746 - The College of New Jersey (later renamed
Princeton University) receives its charter.
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1797 - One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above
Paris,
Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded
parachute jump.
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1836 -
Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the
Republic of Texas.
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1844 - The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of
William Miller, anticipated the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the
Great Disappointment.
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1877 - The
Blantyre mining disaster in
Scotland kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who were unable to support themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the Poor House.
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1878 - The first
rugby match under floodlights takes place in
Salford, between Broughton and
Swinton.
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1883 - The
Metropolitan Opera House in
New York City opens with a performance of
Gounod's Faust (opera).
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1907 -
Panic of 1907: A run on
Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will lead to a
depression.
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1910 -
Dr. Crippen is convicted at the
Old Bailey of poisoning his
wife and was subsequently hanged at
Pentonville Prison in
London.
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1924 -
Toastmasters International is founded.
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1926 -
J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician
Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
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1934 - In
East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious
bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.
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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
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1953 -
Laos gains independence from
France.
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1956 - A concrete
girder weighing 200
tons kills 48 in
Karachi,
Pakistan.
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1957 -
Vietnam War: First
United States casualties in
Vietnam.
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Mark English - voted worlds best tiddlywinks player
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1960 -
Ed Yost makes the first free flight of a modern hot-air balloon Bruning, Nebraska.
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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.
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1964 -
Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the
Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.
* 1964 -
Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official
Flag of Canada.
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1966 -
The Supremes become the first all-female
music group to attain a No. 1 selling
album (
The Supremes A' Go-Go).
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1968 -
Apollo program:
Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the
Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the
Earth 163 times.
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1969 -
Led Zeppelin release the classic album
Led Zeppelin II, featuring the hit single "Whole Lotta Love."
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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
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1975 -
Carlton Fisk of the
Boston Red Sox hits a home run to win Game 6 of the
1975 World Series against the
Cincinnati Reds.
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1976 -
Red Dye No. 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.
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1981 - The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its
strike the previous August.
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1986 - U.S. President
Ronald Reagan signs the
Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.
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1987 -
John Coolidge Adams's opera
Nixon in China debuts at the
Houston Grand Opera in
Houston, Texas.
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1987 - The pinnacle rock
Gendarme falls at
Seneca Rocks.
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1989 -
Jacob Wetterling is abducted in
St. Joseph, Minnesota.
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1999 -
Maurice Papon, an official in the
Vichy France government during
World War II, is jailed for
crimes against humanity.
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2002 -
Internet users declare this day as the
official Caps Lock Day.
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2005 - Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the
2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
* 2005 - Crash of
Bellview Airlines Flight 210 in
Nigeria kills all 117 on board.
* 2005 - The first phase of
Transantiago, the new public transport system of
Santiago de Chile is implemented.
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2006 -
Panama:
Referendum concerning the
Panama Canal Expansion Proposal.*
1071 -
William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet (d.
1126)
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1197 -
Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d.
1242)
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1511 -
Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d.
1553)
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1592 -
Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (d.
1657)
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1688 -
Nadir Shah of Persia (d.
1747)
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1689 - King
John V of Portugal (d.
1750)
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1729 -
Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (d.
1798)
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1770 -
Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (d.
1831)
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1809 -
Volney E. Howard, American politician (d.
1889)
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1811 -
Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d.
1886)
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1844 -
Louis Riel, Canadian Metis Political Leader (d.
1885)
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1865 -
Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (d.
1943)
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1870 -
Alfred Douglas, English partner of
Oscar Wilde (d.
1945)
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1881 -
Clinton Davisson, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1958)
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1887 -
John Reed, American journalist (d.
1920)
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1900 -
James Hall, American actor
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1903 -
George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1989)
* 1903 -
Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (d.
1952)
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1904 -
Constance Bennett, American actress (d.
1965)
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1907 -
Jimmie Foxx, baseball player (d.
1967)
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1913 -
Bao Dai,
Emperor of Vietnam (d.
1997)
* 1913 -
Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (d.
2002)
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1917 -
Joan Fontaine, British actress
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1918 -
Lou Klein, baseball player (d.
1976)
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1919 -
Doris Lessing, British writer
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1920 -
Timothy Leary, American writer and professor (d.
1996)
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1921 -
Georges Brassens, French singer (d.
1981)
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1925 -
Robert Rauschenberg, American painter, sculptor, and graphic artist
* 1925 -
Dory Previn, American songwriter
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1927 -
Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (d.
2005)
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1929 -
Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (d.
1990)
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1936 -
Bobby Seale, American civil rights activist
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1938 -
Derek Jacobi, English actor
* 1938 -
Christopher Lloyd, American actor
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1939 -
George Cohen, English footballer
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1942 -
Annette Funicello, American actress
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1943 -
Jan de Bont, Dutch film director
* 1943 -
Catherine Deneuve, French actress
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1945 -
Leslie West, American musician
* 1945 -
Sheila Sherwood, British long jumper
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1946 -
Kelvin MacKenzie, British media tycoon
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1948 -
Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of
Gerald Ford*
1949 -
Stiv Bators, American musician (
The Dead Boys) (d.
1990)
* 1949 -
Arsène Wenger, English football manager
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1952 -
Jeff Goldblum, American actor
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1956 -
Frank DiPino, baseball player
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1959 -
Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (d.
2005)
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1963 -
Brian Boitano, American figure skater
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1964 -
Drazen Petrovic, Croatian basketball player (d.
1993)
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1964 -
Toby Mac, American singer and songwriter
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1965 -
John Wesley Harding, American musician
* 1965 -
Otis Smith, American football player
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1966 -
Valeria Golino, Italian actress
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1967 -
Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer
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1968 -
Shaggy, Jamaican musician
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1969 -
Héctor Carrasco, baseball player
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1973 -
Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
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1978 -
Owais Shah, English cricketer
* 1978 -
Sergei Samsonov, Russian hockey player
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1984 -
Lee Ho, Korean footballer
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1985 -
Zachary Hanson, American musician (
Hanson)
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1990 -
Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
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741 -
Charles Martel, leader of the Franks (b.
686)
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1383 - King
Fernando I of Portugal (b.
1345)
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1565 -
Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b.
1479)
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1613 -
Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer
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1625 -
Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (b.
1561)
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1674 -
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (b.
1621)
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1708 -
Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (b.
1636)
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1751 -
William IV, Prince of Orange (b.
1711)
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1755 -
Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (b.
1694)
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1792 -
Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b.
1725)
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1847 -
Sahle Selassie, Negus of Shewa
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1859 -
Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (b.
1784)
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1891 -
Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist (b.
1846)
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1906 -
Paul Cezanne, French painter (b.
1839)
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1917 -
Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (b.
1863)
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1918 -
Myrtle Gonzalez, American film and stage actress (b.
1891)
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1928 -
Andrew Fisher, fifth
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1862)
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1934 -
Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b.
1904)
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1935 -
Komitas, Armenian composer (b.
1869)
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1973 -
Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (b.
1876)
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1978 -
John Riley, English poet (murdered) (b.
1937)
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1979 -
Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (b.
1887)
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1986 -
Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1893)
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1992 -
Cleavon Little, American actor (b.
1939)
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1995 - Sir
Kingsley Amis, English writer (b.
1922)
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1998 -
Eric Ambler, English novelist (b.
1909)
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2000 -
Rodney Anoai (Yokozuna), American professional wrestler (b.
1966)
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2002 -
Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (b.
1915)
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2005 -
Arman, French-born artist (b.
1928)
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2005 -
Franky Gee, American singer (
Captain Jack) (b.
1962)
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R.C. Saints - Saint Mary Salome; Philip, Severus, Eusebius, and Hermes of Heraclea;
Donatus of Fiesole
* Also see
October 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)*
Anti Police Brutality Day*
French Republican Calendar -
Pomme (Apple) Day, first day in the
Month of Brumaire*
BBC: On This Day October 21 -
October 23 -
September 22 -
November 22 – more
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