October 22

October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 70 days remaining.

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 andSouth 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
• 1949 – Stiv Bators, American musician, punk rock singer with The Dead Boys (d. June 3, 1990)
• 1949  – Arun Jain, Indian Industrialist
• 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

• BBC: On This Day

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