October 22
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.
- 1964 - Canada: A Mult-Party Parliamentary Committe selects a design to become the new official Flag of Canada.
- 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 - 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
- 1688 - Nadir Shah (d. 1747)
- 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, 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
- 1935 - Komitas, Armenian composer
- 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
