On this day in History - Oct. 22

0362 - The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
0741 - Charles Martel dies (b. 0686). leader of the Franks, grandfather of Charlemagne
1071 - William IX was born (d. 1126). Duke of Aquitaine and poet
1197 - Emperor Juntoku of Japan was born (d. 1242)

1303 - Pope Benedictus XI begins his Papacy
1383 - The Fernando I of Portugal dies (b. 1345) . 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.
1511 - Erasmus Reinhold was born (d. 1553). German astronomer and mathematician
1565 - Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres dies (b. 1479). French bibliophile.
1575 - Foundation of Aguascalientes.
1592 - Gustaf Horn was born (d. 1657). Swedish soldier and politician.
1613 - Pomponio Nenna dies. Italian composer
1625 - Kikkawa Hiroie dies (b. 1561). Japanese politician
1674 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout dies (b. 1621). Dutch painter.
1686 - George Balthasar Schott was born. Composer
1688 - Nadir Shah of Persia was born (d. 1747)
1689 - King John V of Portugal "O Magnânimo" was born (d. 1750). King of Portugal from the death of his father, Pedro II [26 Apr 1648 – 01 Dec 1706] to his own death on 31 July 1750. His relatively peaceful reign saw an increase in the wealth and power of the crown and a generous patronage of learning, culture, and the church.
1708 - Hermann Witsius dies (b. 1636). Dutch theologian.
1729 - Johann Reinhold Forster was born (d. 1798). German botanist.
1746 - The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
1755 - Elisha Williams dies (b. 1694). American rector of Yale College.
1770 - Thomas Seebeck,was born (d. 1831). Baltic German physicist.
1797 - One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
1809 - Volney E. Howard was born (d. 1889). American politician
1811 - Franz Liszt was born (d. 1886). Hungarian composer.
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.
1844 - Sarah Bernhardt was born (d. 1923). French actress.
1844 - Louis Riel was born (d. 1885). Canadian politician.
1859 - Louis Spohr dies (b. 1784). German violinist and composer.
1865 - Kristjan Raud was born (d. 1943). Estonian painter.
1870 - Alfred Douglas was born (d. 1945). English partner of Oscar Wilde.

1870 - Ana Nogueira Batista was born. Brazilian poetess.
1878 - The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
1881 - Clinton Davisson was born ( 1958). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1883 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust (opera).
1887 - John Reed was born (d. 1920). American journalist.
1896 - José Leitão de Barros dies (b. 1967). Portuguese film director and actor
1900 - James Hall was born. American actor.

1901 - Arsénio Bento da Ressurreição was born. Portuguese painter.

1903 - George Wells Beadle was born (d. 1989). American scientist (1958 Nobel Prize for Medicine )
1903 - Curly Howard was born (d. 1952). American actor and comedian
1904 - Constance Bennett was born (d. 1965). American actress
1906 - Paul Cezanne dies (b. 19 Jan 1839). French painter.
1907 - Jimmie Foxx was born (d. 1967). Baseball player
1907 - Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
1908 - Artur (Nabantino Çonçalves de) Azevedo dies (b. 1855). Brazilian journalist, playwright and poet.
1910 - Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
1913 - Hans-Peter Tschudi was born (d. 2002). Swiss Federal Councillor
1913 - Bao Dai, Emperor of Vietnam was born (d. 1997).
1913 - Robert Capa was born (d. 1954). Hungarian photographer
1917 - Joan Fontaine was born. British actress
1917 - Bob Fitzsimmons dies (b. 1863). English boxer.
1918 - Myrtle Gonzalez dies (b. 1891). American film and stage actress.
1919 - Doris Lessing was born. British writer
1920 - Timothy Leary was born (d. 1996). American writer and professor
1921 - Georges Brassens was born (d. 1981). French singer.
1924 - Toastmasters International is founded.
1925 - Robert Rauschenberg was born. American artist.
1928 - Andrew Fisher dies (b. 1862). fifth Prime Minister of Australia
1929 - Lev Yashin was born (d. 1990). Russian footballer (goalkeeper)
1925 - Dory Previn was born. American songwriter
1934 - In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.
1934 - Pretty Boy Floyd dies (b. 1904). American gangster.
1935 - Komitas dies (b. 1869). Armenian composer.
1935 - Um furacão no Haiti provoca mais de 2 000 mortes.
1936 - Bobby Seale was born. American civil rights activist

1937 - El general Alberto Enríquez Gallo sucede a Páez en la presidencia de Ecuador.
1938 - Derek Jacobi was born. English actor
1938 - Christopher Lloyd was born. American actor
1938 - Juca Chaves was born in Rio de Janeiro . Brazilian humorist, composer, writer and singer

1939 - Tony Roberts was born. Actor.

1939 - Joaquim Chissano was born. President of Mozambique (1986 - )

1942 - Annette Funicello was born. American actress
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
1943 - Jan de Bont was born. Dutch film director
1943 - Catherine Deneuve was born. French actress
1945 - Leslie West was born. American musician

1945 - Eva María Duarte (Evita) / Juan Domingo Perón wedding
1945 - Em Portugal, é criada a PIDE (Polícia Internacional de Defesa do Estado).
1946 - Kelvin MacKenzie was born. British media tycoon
1948 - Lynette Fromme was born. American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford
1949 - Stiv Bators was born (d. 1990). American musician (The Dead Boys)
1949 - Arsène Wenger was born. English football manager

1949 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:21.2)
1952 - Jeff Goldblum was born. American actor
1953 - Laos gains independence from France.
1954 - Oswald de Andrade dies (b. 1890). Brazilian writer

1954 - West Germany joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1955 - Proclamação da república do Vietnam(e) do Sul
1956 - A concrete girder weighing 200 tons kills 48 in Karachi, Pakistan.
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.
1963 - Brian Boitano was born. American figure skater
1964 - Drazen Petrovic was born (d. 1993). Croatian basketball player.
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre [21 Jun 1905 – 15 Apr 1980] 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.
1965 - John Wesley Harding was born. American musician
1965 - Otis Smith was born. National Football Leaguecornerback
1966 - The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).

1966 - Valeria Golino was born. Actress.
1967 - Rita Guerra was born. Portuguese singer
1967 - Ana Beatriz Nogueira was born. Brazilian actress
1968 - Shaggy was born. Jamaican musician
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."
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
1973 - Ichiro Suzuki was born. Japanese baseball player
1973 - Ana Furtado was born. Brazilian actress.
1973 - Pablo Casals dies in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (b. 1876). Spanish cellist and conductor.
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 #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.
1978 - John Riley dies murdered (b. 1937). English poet.

1978 - 8th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:32:30

1978 - 9th New York City Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:12:12
1979 - Nadia Boulanger dies (b. 1887). French composer and composition teacher.

1980 - New South Korean constitution comes into effect
1981 - The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
1981 - Russell Beneke was born. American film director, love of my life
1982 - Savitri Devi Mukherji dies (b. 1905). Indo-European esoteric Hitlerist
1985 - Zachary Hanson was born. American musician (Hanson)
1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.
1986 - Albert Szent-Györgyi dies (b. 1893). Hungarian physician
1987 - John Coolidge Adams's opera Nixon in China debuts at the Houston Grand Opera in Houston, Texas.
1987 - Peter Sinclair was borb. Scottish rolemodel

1987 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky — Russian-born (dissident ) American writer.
1989 - Jacob Wetterling is abducted in St. Joseph, Minnesota.
1990 - Jonathan Lipnicki was born. American actor
1992 - Cleavon Little dies (b. 1939). American actor
1995 - Sir Kingsley Amis diesd (b. 1922). English writer.

1995 - The largest gathering of world leaders in history marked the 50th anniversary of the United Nations
1998 - Eric Ambler dies (b. 1909). English novelist.
1999 - Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.

2001 - Joseph P. Curseen dies at 47, of respiratory anthrax. He was a postal worker at the Brentwood facility serving the Washington DC area.
2002 - Queen Geraldina of the Albanians dies (b. 1915)
R.C. Saints - Saint Mary Salome; Philip, Severus, Eusebius, and Hermes of Heraclea; Donatus of Fiesole
Also see October 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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