October 22
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October 22 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 69 days remaining after October 22 until the end of the year.
[change] Events
- 362 – The temple of Apollo near Antioch is destroyed in a fire.
- 1383 – A time of civil war began in Portugal when King Fernando died without a male heir to the throne.
- 1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) is created.
- 1784 – Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
- 1797 – One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
- 1836 – Sam Houston is becomes the first President of the Republic of Texas.
- 1844 – The Great Anticipation: The Millerites, followers of William Miller, expect the end of the World to occur on this date. The following day is referred to as the 'Great Disappointment'.
- 1877 – A mining diaster in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, kills 215 people.
- 1878 – The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
- 1957 – Vietnam War: First American soldier to die in Vietnam.
- 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy says that American spy planes have found 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 in Literature, but turns down the honor.
- 1964 – Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee choses the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
- 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."
- 1975 – The Soviet unmanned space probe Venera 9 lands on Venus.
- 1999 – Maurice Papon, a French Vichy Government official in World War II, is jailed for Crimes against Humanity.
- 2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active on record.
- 2006 – An expansion plan for the Panama Canal is approved in a referendum in Panama.
[change] Births
- 1179 – Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242)
- 1688 – Nader Shah of Persia (d. 1747)
- 1689 – King John V of Portugal (d. 1750)
- 1701 – Maria Amalia of Austria, Holy Roman Empress (d. 1756)
- 1734 – Daniel Boone, American pioneer (d. 1820) (November 2 in the Gregorian calendar)
- 1811 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (d. 1886)
- 1844 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)
- 1858 – Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein, German Empress (d. 1921)
- 1865 – Paul Raud, Estonian painter (d. 1930)
- 1870 – Ivan Bunin, Russian writer (d. 1953)
- 1881 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist (d. 1958)
- 1882 – Newell Convers Wyeth, American painter (d. 1945)
- 1893 – Ernst Opik, Estonian astronomer (d. 1985)
- 1903 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist (d. 1989)
- 1904 – Constance Bennett, American actress (d. 1965)
- 1913 – Bao Dai, Vietnamese Emperor (d. 1997)
- 1913 – Robert Capa, American photographer (d. 1954)
- 1917 – Joan Fontaine, American actress
- 1919 – Doris Lessing, British writer
- 1920 – Timothy Leary, American writer and psychologist (d. 1996)
- 1921 – Georges Brassens, French singer and songwriter (d. 1981)
- 1923 – Bert Trautmann, German footballer
- 1929 – Lev Yashin, Soviet-Russian footballer (d. 1990)
- 1938 – Christopher Lloyd, American actor
- 1938 – Derek Jacobi, English actor
- 1939 – Joaquim Chissano, former President of Mozambique
- 1943 – Catherine Deneuve, French actress
- 1949 – Stiv Bators, American musician (d. 1990)
- 1949 – Arsene Wenger, French footballer and manager
- 1952 – Jeff Goldblum, American actor
- 1964 – Craig Levein, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1967 – Ulrike Maier, Austrian skier (d. 1994)
- 1968 – Shaggy, Jamaican rapper and musician
- 1970 – Amy Redford, American actress, director and producer
- 1972 – Saffron Burrows, English actress
- 1973 – Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
- 1975 – Michel Salgado, Spanish footballer
- 1983 – Plan B, English rapper, singer, musician and actor
- 1986 – Stefan Radu, Romanian footballer
- 1990 – Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
- 1992 – Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
[change] Deaths
- 741 – Charles Martel, leader of the Franks (b. 686)
- 1383 – King Fernando I of Portugal (b. 1345)
- 1751 – William IV, Prince of Orange (b. 1711)
- 1859 – Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (b. 1784)
- 1906 – Paul Cezanne, French painter (b. 1839)
- 1928 – Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
- 1935 – Komitas Vardapet, Armenian musician and composer (b. 1869)
- 1979 – Nadia Boulanger, French composer (b. 1887)
- 1986 – Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt, Hungarian scientist, won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
- 1987 – Lino Ventura, Italian actor (b. 1919)
- 1995 – Sir Kingsley Amis, English writer (b. 1922)
- 1997 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (b. 1905)
- 2002 – Countess Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi, Hungarian-born Queen of Albania (b. 1915)
- 2003 – Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
- 2006 – Choi Kyu-ha, President of South Korea (b. 1919)
- 2007 – Eve Curie, French writer (b. 1904)
- 2009 – Soupy Sales, American comedian and television personality (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Crown prince of Saudi Arabia (b. 1928)
