'''October_22''' is the 295th day of the year (296th in Leap_years) in the Gregorian_Calendar, with 70 days remaining.
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== 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 King Fernando died without a male Heir to the Portuguese throne.
* 1575 - Foundation of 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, disillusioning many adherents of Millerism.
* 1878 - The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
* 1883 - The Metropolitan_Opera_House in New_York_City opens with a performance of 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.
* 1910 - Dr._Crippen is convicted at the Old_Bailey of poisoning his Wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
* 1924 - Toastmasters_International is founded.
* 1934 - In East_Liverpool,_Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty_Boy_Floyd is shot and killed by Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation agents.
* 1943 - Kassel: 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 (''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 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: 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 - 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 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'' 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 de Chile is implemented.
== Births ==
*1071 - 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 laureate (d. 1958)
*1887 - 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 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, 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)
*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 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 - Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (b. 1915)
*2003 - Elliot_Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
*2005 - Arman, French-born artist (b. 1928)
==Holidays and observances==
*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 ==
* BBC: On This Day
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