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What happened in history on this day: October 22?
On October 22 in ...
- 1565 - Jean Grolier de Serviéres French bibliophile, dies.
- 1746 - Princeton University (New Jersey) received its charter.
- 1780 - Birth of Peter Maverick; US bank note engraver.
- 1797 - André-Jacques Garnerin makes first parachute jump from balloon (Paris, France).
- 1836 - Sam Houston is inaugurated as first elected president of Republic of Texas.
- 1844 - Louis Riel is born in Saint Boniface, Assiniboia, Canada; member of Parliament 1873-74, president of Council of Assiniboia, Métis leader of Red River Uprising 1869-70 and Northwest Rebellion 1885.
- 1845 - Birth of Sarah Bernhardt in France; silent film actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth).
- 1845 - The first known box score appears in the New York Morning News a month after the first set of rules are written by Alexander Cartwright and some his fellow Knickerbockers.
- 1870 - Birth of Ivan Bunin in Russia; poet/novelist (Gentleman from San Francisco - Nobel Prize 1933).
- 1880 - Birth of Joe Carr in Ohio, USA; NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39).
- 1882 - In Southeast Oklahoma, USA, a magnitude 4.9 earthquake occurs.
- 1883 - First New York Horse Show held (Madison Square Garden).
- 1883 - Original Metropolitan Opera House (New York City) grand opening (Faust).
- 1885 - Birth of Giovanni Martinelli in Montagnana, Italy; opera singer (New York Metropolitan).
- 1887 - Birth of John Reed; journalist who reported on Mexican and Russian revolutions.
- 1896 - Birth of Charles Glenn King; biochemist (discovered vitamin C).
- 1898 - Birth of Damaso Alonso; Spanish poet (Hijos de la ira).
- 1900 - Death of John Sherman in Washington, DC, USA at age 77; canal engineer, lawyer, Representative (Ohio, 1854-61), US Senator (Ohio, 1861-77, 1881-97), Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, US Treasury Secretary (1877-81), Secretary of State (1897-98).
- 1905 - Birth of Constance Bennett; actress (Easiest Way, Ladies in Love).
- 1905 - Birth of Karl Jansky; discovered cosmic radio emissions in 1932.
- 1906 - Birth of Sidney Kingsley; author (Darkness at Noon).
- 1907 - New York City's Knickerbocker Trust Company fails, leading to Panic of 1907.
- 1907 - Birth of Jimmie Foxx; baseball home run hitter (Detroit Tigers).
- 1908 - Birth of Roger Broggie in Massachusetts, USA; mechanical engineer at Walt Disney Company (Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad, Mark Twain Riverboat, Matterhorn Bobsleds, Monorail, more), named Disney Legend 1990.
- 1909 - First solo flight of a woman, Elise Deroche in Voisin biplane at Chalans, France.
- 1915 - Birth of Harry Hickox in Big Springs, Texas, USA; American actor (Herb - Please Don't Eat the Daisies).
- 1916 - Birth of Sid Miller in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Donald O'Connor Texaco Show).
- 1917 - Birth of Joan Fontaine in Tokyo, Japan; actress (Gunga Din, Ivanhoe, Rebecca).
- 1919 - Birth of Doris Lessing; novelist (Golden Notebook).
- 1920 - Birth of Mitzi Green in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Little Orphan Annie, So This is Hollywood).
- 1920 - Birth of Timothy Leary; Harvard professor, LSD taker.
- 1922 - Birth of John Chafee; American politician (Senator-Republican-Rhode Island).
- 1922 - Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, New York, named for knight in Wagner's Opera.
- 1923 - Birth of Pete Pihos; NFL end (Philadelphia Eagles).
- 1925 - Birth of Robert Rauschenberg; US painter (Gloria).
- 1926 - Student Wallace Whitehead repeatedly punches magician Harry Houdini in the abdomen, after asking if he had strong muscles, and receiving permission to punch him.
- 1928 - US President Herbert Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism".
- 1929 - Birth of Dory Previn; pop singer ("Love Be My Cover").
- 1933 - Birth of Donald H Peterson in Winona, Mississippi, USA; Colonel US Air Force/astronaut (STS 6).
- 1934 - Birth of Donald McIntyre in Auckland, New Zealand; bass-baritone (Wotan-Das Rheingold).
- 1934 - Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd shot dead by FBI in Ohio.
- 1935 - Birth of Judy Devlin Hashman; ten time badminton champion (1957-67).
- 1936 - First commercial flight from mainland USA to Hawaii.
- 1937 - Duke Edward of England meets with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgarden.
- 1938 - First Xerox copy made.
- 1938 - Birth of Christopher Lloyd in Stamford, Connecticut, USA; actor (Taxi, Back to the Future).
- 1938 - Birth of Derek Jacobi in London, England; actor (Lanner - Strauss Family).
- 1939 - First TV NFL game: Philadelphia Eagles versus Brooklyn Dodgers.
- 1939 - Birth of Tony Roberts in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Annie Hall, Edge of Night, Lucie Arnaz Show).
- 1942 - Birth of Annette Funicello in Utica, New York, USA; actress (Mickey Mouse Club).
- 1943 - Birth of Catherine Deneuve [Dorleac] in Paris, France; actress (Repulsion, Hunger).
- 1943 - Birth of Paul Zukofsky in Brooklyn, New York, USA; violinist (Cappricio).
- 1943 - (evening) British bombers attack Kassel, Germany, creating a firestorm. 155 industrial buildings are destroyed or damaged, three Henschel factories making V-1 flying bombs are damaged, 26,000 residential buildings destroyed, 9,000 people killed or missing, and 100,000 people made homeless.
- 1944 - Albanian General Enver Hoxha proclaims Albania a democratic republic.
- 1945 - Birth of Leslie West [Weinstein]; rocker (Mountain - "Mississippi Queen").
- 1947 - Birth of Lee Meredith [Judith Lee Sauls] in River Edge, New Jersey, USA; actress (The Producers).
- 1948 - Birth of John Peterson; American middleweight (Olympic-gold-1976).
- 1949 - 200 killed in train derailment near Nowy Dwor, Poland.
- 1950 - Los Angeles Rams beat Baltimore Colts 70-27.
- 1952 - Birth of Jeff Goldblum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (The Fly, Thank God it's Friday).
- 1952 - Birth of Patricia Ann Reagan [Patti Davis], daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan; actress, author (House of Secrets).
- 1953 - Laos gains full independence from France.
- 1954 - Federal Republic of Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- 1954 - Ford Thunderbird cars arrive in dealer showrooms in the USA. 4,000 orders are placed on the first day.
- 1961 - Birth of Barbara Potter in Connecticut, USA; tennis player (changed shirt on Wimbledon Court).
- 1961 - Birth of Leonard Marshall; NFL defensive end (New York Giants).
- 1962 - In a televised speech, US President John F. Kennedy announces that U.S. spy planes have discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba which would house medium-range missiles capable of striking a number of major cities in the United States. Kennedy announces that he is ordering a naval "quarantine" of Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from transporting any more offensive weapons to the island.
- 1962 - Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center, Washington, USA.
- 1963 - 225,000 students boycott Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest.
- 1963 - Birth of Brian Boitano; American figure skater (Olympic-gold-1988).
- 1966 - Birth of Valeria Golino in Naples, Italy; actress (Rain Man, Little Flames).
- 1966 - USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon.
- 1968 - Apollo 7 returns to Earth.
- 1972 - Oakland Athletics' first championship, beating Cincinnati Reds 4 games to 3 in 69th World Series.
- 1973 - United Nations Security Council Resolution 338 imposes a cease fire to the Yom Kippur War.
- 1974 - New York Yankees trade Bobby Murcer to San Francisco Giants for Bobby Bonds.
- 1975 - Cincinnati Reds beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 72nd World Series.
- 1975 - Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus.
- 1977 - International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 and 2 launched into Earth orbit.
- 1979 - Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in New York for medical treatment.
- 1979 - Jesse Bishop, convicted murderer, dies in Nevada gas chamber.
- 1979 - Walt Disney World welcomes its 100-millionth guest, Kurt Miller.
- 1980 - Birth of Michael Fishman; actor (DJ - Roseanne).
- 1980 - New South Korean constitution comes into effect.
- 1981 - The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organization faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins.
- 1981 - American Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization decertified.
- 1981 - US national debt tops US$1 trillion.
- 1983 - In Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany, people demonstrate for nuclear disarmament.
- 1983 - An armed man crashes a truck through the gates of Augusta National Golf Club in the US, takes hostages, and demands to see the President.
- 1984 - NFL quarterback Ken Stabler retires.
- 1984 - Napoleon Whiting, actor (Silas - Big Valley), dies at age 75.
- 1985 - Birth of Zachary Walker Hanson in Tulsa, Oklahoma; drummer (Hanson - "MMMBop").
- 1986 - Ivor Francis, actor (Dusty's Trail), dies at age 68.
- 1986 - Jane Dornacker, traffic reporter for WNBC radio in New York City, is killed when the helicopter she is broadcasting live from crashes into the Hudson River.
- 1986 - Death of Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1893).
- 1988 - Death of Henry Armstrong, American boxer (born 1912).
- 1989 - Denver Nuggets beat Jugoplastika Split 135-129 in third McDonald Open.
- 1991 - General Motors announces nine-month fiscal loss of US$2.2 billion.
- 1991 - ABC airs the 100th episode of TV show Full House.
- 1992 - Death of Cleavon (Jake) Little at age 53 of colon cancer; actor (Dear John, Bagdad Cafe, True Colors, Temperatures Rising, Felony Squad, Another World).
- 1993 - Disney generally releases the film Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas to theaters in the USA.
- 1995 - Death of Mary Wickenhauser AKA Mary Wickes of cancer at age 85; actress (Miss Cathcart - Dennis the Menace TV series).
- 2000 - Death of Rodney Anoa'i, American wrestler known as Yokozuna (born 1966).
- 2000 - The Mainichi Shinbun newspaper exposes Japanese archeologist Shinichi Fujimura as a fraud; Japanese archaeologists had based their treatises on his findings.
- 2005 - Tropical Storm Alpha forms, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active on record.
- 2005 - Bellview Airlines Flight 210, a Boeing 737 airliner, crashes in Nigeria.
- 2006 - Death of Arthur Hill at age 84 of Alzheimer's disease; actor (Owen Marshall TV show, Counselor at Law (1971), Glitter (1984)).
- 2007 - Mexico and the USA agree on a plan for the US to pay US$1.4 billion in aid over three years for Mexico to fight drug traffickers.
- 2007 - Death of Ève Curie, French author, daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie (born 1904).
- 2008 - India launches its first unmanned moon mission; the rocket is called Chandrayaan-1, and is being sent on a two-year mission to orbit the Moon. The rocket carries payloads from India, the USA, Germany, Britain, Sweden, and Bulgaria.
- 2008 - Wachovia Corp reports a third-quarter loss of US$23.9 billion, a record quarterly deficit for a banking company in the global credit crisis.
- 2008 - Hungary's central bank raises its interest rate from 8.5 percent to 11.5.
- 2009 - Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers 10-4 in Major league Baseball to win the National League Championship Series four games to one and advance to the World Series.
- 2009 - The former military ruler (1981-85) of Uruguay, Gregorio Alvarez, is sentenced to 25 years in prison for 37 murder and human rights violations.
- 2009 - Microsoft launches Windows 7 operating system. Price is US$199.99 for the Home Premium version, or US$119.99 for an upgrade from older versions.
- 2009 - In Barcelona, Spain, auction firm Aureo and Calico sells a Spain 1609 100-escudo (11 troy ounces) gold coin, only one known, for 944,000 euros (US$1.4 million), a record for a Spanish coin, and third-highest non-US coin. A 1633 Spanish gold 100-escudo coin sells for 590,000 euros (US$882,000). An undated Spanish (Seville) gold 20-excelente coin sells for 566,400 euros (US$847,000).
- 2010 - The International Space Station surpasses the record for the longest continuous human occupation of space, having been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000 (3641 days).
- 2011 - Death of Sultan, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia (born 1930).
- 2020 - The Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women's Health and Strengthening the Family is signed by government representatives from 34 countries.
- 2022 - Giorgia Meloni is sworn in as prime minister of Italy.
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