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October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years)
in the Gregorian Calendar, with 70 days remaining.
Events
- 1746 - The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
- 1797 - 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 - Adherents of Millerism recognize this day as "The Great Disappointment". Their leader, William
Miller, had told that on Oct. 22 the world would end, and Jesus Christ
would come in his second time to earth.
- 1907 - Panic of 1907: A run on
Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
- 1934 - In East
Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and
killed by Federal Bureau of
Investigation agents.
- 1943 - Kassel: RAF deliveres severe
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.
- 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
he turns down the award.
- 1966 - The Supremes become the
first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (Supremes a Go-Go).
- 1968 - Apollo program:
Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
- 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: United States Air Force Technical Sergeant and decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, Leonard Matlovich, 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."
- 1981 - The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
- 1986 - US President Ronald
Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into
law.
- 1989 - Jacob Wetterling
is abducted in St. Joseph, Minnesota.
- 1999 - Maurice Papon, French politician, is jailed for war crimes.
Births
- 1071 - William
IX, Duke of Aquitaine and vernacular poet
- 1811 - Franz Liszt, composer (d.
1886)
- 1844 - Sarah Bernhardt,
actress (d. 1923)
- 1844 - Louis Riel, Canadian politician (d. 1885)
- 1887 - John
Reed, radical journalist (d. 1920)
- 1870 - Alfred Douglas,
partner of Oscar Wilde
- 1903 - Curly Howard, actor, 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 - Catherine
Deneuve, actress
- 1943 - Jan de Bont, film director
- 1945 - Leslie West
- 1946 - Kelvin MacKenzie,
British media tycoon
- 1949 - Stiv Bators, musician (d.
1990)
- 1952 - Annette
Funicello, actress
- 1953 - Jeff Goldblum,
actor
- 1963 - Brian Boitano, figure skating champion
- 1964 - Drazen Petrovic,
Basketball Hall of Famer (d. 1993)
- 1965 - John Wesley Harding, musician
- 1968 - Shaggy, musician
- 1973 - Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball star, American League MVP and Rookie of the Year in 2001
Deaths
- 1383 - King Fernando
of Portugal, with no male heir, starting the 1383-1385
Crisis
- 1906 - Paul Cezanne, painter
- 1917 - Bob Fitzsimmons,
boxing champion
- 1928 - Andrew Fisher, fifth
Prime Minister of Australia
- 1934 - Pretty Boy Floyd, gangster
- 1973 - Pau Casals, Catalan virtuoso cellist and conductor
- 1978 - John Riley, poet: murdered
near his home in Yorkshire
- 1995 - Sir Kingsley Amis,
writer
- 1998 - Eric Ambler, novelist
- 2002 - Queen Geraldina of the Albanians
Holidays
October 21 - October 23 -
November 22 - September
22 - more historical anniversaries
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