October 22

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 Fernando I of Portugal|King Fernando died without a male heir to the List of Portuguese monarchs|Portuguese throne.

1575 - Foundation of Aguascalientes (Aguascalientes)|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 (preacher)|William Miller, disillusioning many adherents of Millerism.

1878 - The first rugby football|rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton RLFC|Swinton.

1883 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Charles Gounod|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 (economics)|depression.

1910 - Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville (HM Prison)|Pentonville Prison in London.

1924 - Toastmasters International is founded.

1934 - In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robbery|bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.

1943 - Bombing of Kassel in World War II|Kassel: Royal Air Force|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.

1960 - Ed Yost makes the first free flight of a modern hot-air balloon Bruning, Nebraska.

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 Multi-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 (music)|album (''Supremes A' Go-Go|The Supremes A' Go-Go'').

1968 - Apollo program: ''Apollo 7'' safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.

1969 - Led Zeppelin release the classic album ''Led Zeppelin II,'' featuring the hit single "Whole Lotta Love."

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 United States|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|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 - FD&C Red No. 4|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.

1981 - The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its Strike action|strike the previous August.

1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.

1987 - John Coolidge Adams's opera ''Nixon in China (opera)|Nixon in China'' debuts at the Houston Grand Opera in Houston, Texas.

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.

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, Chile|Santiago de Chile is implemented.

Births

1071 - William IX of Aquitaine|William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet (d. 1126)

1197 - Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242)

1511 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)

1592 - Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1657)

1688 - Nadir Shah of Persia (d. 1747)

1689 - King John V of Portugal (d. 1750)

1729 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (d. 1798)

1770 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (d. 1831)

1809 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)

1811 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (d. 1886)

1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)

1844 - Louis Riel, Canadian politician (d. 1885)

1865 - Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (d. 1943)

1870 - Alfred Douglas, English partner of Oscar Wilde (d. 1945)

1881 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)

1887 - John Reed (journalist)|John Reed, American journalist (d. 1920)

1900 - James Hall, American actor

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)

1904 - Constance Bennett, American actress (d. 1965)

1907 - Jimmie Foxx, baseball player (d. 1967)

1913 - Bao Dai, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1997)

1913 - Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2002)

1917 - Joan Fontaine, British actress

1919 - Doris Lessing, British writer

1920 - Timothy Leary, American writer and professor (d. 1996)

1921 - Georges Brassens, French singer (d. 1981)

1925 - Dory Previn, American songwriter

1929 - Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (d. 1990)

1936 - Bobby Seale, American civil rights activist

1938 - Derek Jacobi, English actor

1938 - Christopher Lloyd, American actor

1942 - Annette Funicello, American actress

1943 - Jan de Bont, Dutch film director

1943 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress

1945 - Leslie West, American musician

1946 - Kelvin MacKenzie, British media tycoon

1948 - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme|Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford

1949 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (d. 1990)

1949 - Arsène Wenger, English football manager

1952 - Jeff Goldblum, American actor

1963 - Brian Boitano, American figure skater

1964 - Drazen Petrovic, Croatian basketball player (d. 1993)

1965 - John Wesley Harding (singer)|John Wesley Harding, American musician

1965 - Otis Smith, American football player

1966 - Valeria Golino, Italian actress

1967 - Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer

1968 - Shaggy, Jamaican musician

1973 - Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player

1985 - Zachary Hanson, American musician (Hanson (band)|Hanson)

1990- Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor

Deaths

741 - Charles Martel, leader of the Franks, grandfather of Charlemagne (b. 686)

1383 - King Fernando I of Portugal (b. 1345)

1565 - Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)

1613 - Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer

1625 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (b. 1561)

1674 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (b. 1621)

1708 - Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (b. 1636)

1751 - William IV, Prince of Orange (b. 1711)

1755 - Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (b. 1694)

1792 - Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)

1847 - Sahle Selassie, Negus of Shewa

1859 - Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (b. 1784)

1891 - Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist (b. 1846)

1906 - Paul Cezanne, French painter (b. 1839)

1917 - Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (b. 1863)

1918 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American film and stage actress (b. 1891)

1928 - Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)

1934 - Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b. 1904)

1935 - Komitas, Armenian composer (b. 1869)

1973 - Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (b. 1876)

1978 - John Riley, English poet (murdered) (b. 1937)

1979 - Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (b. 1887)

1986 - Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)

1992 - Cleavon Little, American actor (b. 1939)

1995 - Sir Kingsley Amis, English writer (b. 1922)

1998 - Eric Ambler, English novelist (b. 1909)

2002 - Countess Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi|Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (b. 1915)

2003 - Elliot Smith, American musician (b. 1969)

2005 - Arman, French-born artist (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances

Calendar of Saints|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

External links

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