On this day in History - Oct. 22

• 4004 BCE - The day the universe was created according to British scientist James Ussher after using the Bible's chronology to calculate the date.
• 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
• 0794 - Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
• 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 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.
• 1383 - King Fernando I of Portugal dies (b. 1345).
• 1511 - Erasmus Reinhold was born (d. 1553). German astronomer and mathematician.
• 1558 - Jacques Sirmond was born (d. 1651). French scholar and Jesuit.
• 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.
• 1692 - Last hanging for witchcraft in the United States.
• 1692 - Elizabeth Farnese was born (d. 1766). Second queen of King Philip V of Spain.
• 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.
• 1751 - William IV, Prince of Orange dies (b. 1711).
• 1755 - Elisha Williams dies (b. 1694). American rector of Yale College.
• 1770 - Thomas Seebeck was born (d. 1831). Baltic German physicist.
• 1784 - Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
• 1792 - Guillaume Le Gentil dies (b. 1725). French astronomer.
• 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.
• 1818 - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle was born (d. 1894). French poet.
• 1821 - Collis Potter Huntington was born (d. 1900). American railroad executive.
• 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 born (d. 1885). Canadian politician.
• 1847 - Sahle Selassie dies. Negus of Shewa.
• 1858 - German Empress Augusta Victoria was born (d. 1921). Wife of German Emperor Wilhelm II.
• 1859 - Louis Spohr dies (b. 1784). German violinist and composer.
• 1865 - Kristjan Raud was born (d. 1943). Estonian painter.
• 1866 - Paraguay: Battle of Curupaytí against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
• 1867 - Foundation of the National University of Colombia.
• 1870 - Alfred Douglas was born (d. 1945). English partner of Oscar Wilde.
• 1870 - Ana Nogueira Batista was born (d. 1965). Brazilian poet.
• 1870 - Ivan Bunin was born (d. 1953). Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1873 - Gustaf John Ramstedt was born (d. 1950). Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat.
• 1875 - First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
• 1877 - The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who were unable to support themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the Poor House.
• 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).
• 1886 - Erik Bergman was born (d. 1970). Lutheran pastor.
• 1887 - John Reed was born (d. 1920). American journalist.
• 1891 - Parker Fennelly was born. American comedian and actor.
• 1891 - Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow dies (b. 1846). Austrian physiologist.
• 1894 - Méi Lánfāng was born (d. 1961). Chinese opera performer.
• 1895 - In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
• 1896 - Charles Glen King was born (d. 1988). American biochimist.
• 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.
• 1905 - Joseph Kosma was born (d. 1969). Hungarian-born composer.
• 1906 - Paul Cezanne dies (b. 19 Jan 1839). French painter.
• 1907 - Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
• 1907 - Jimmie Foxx was born (d. 1967). American baseball player.
• 1908 - John Gould was born (d. 2003). American humorist, essayist, and columnist.
• 1908 - Artur (Nabantino Gonçalves 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.
• 1912 - Frances Drake was born (d. 2000). American actress.
• 1913 - Hans-Peter Tschudi was born (d. 2002). Swiss Federal Councillor.
• 1913 - Bao Dai was born (d. 1997). Emperor of Vietnam.
• 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 - Lou Klein was born (d. 1976). Baseball player.
• 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 - Alexander Kronrod was born (d. 1986). Russian mathematician.
• 1921 - Georges Brassens was born (d. 1981). French singer.
• 1923 - Bert Trautmann was born. German former footballer.
• 1924 - Toastmasters International is founded.
• 1925 - Dory Previn was born. American songwriter.
• 1925 - Robert Rauschenberg was born. American artist.
• 1926 - J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
• 1927 - Allan Hendrickse was born (d. 2005). South African politician.
• 1927 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković dies (b. 1876). Serbian writer.
• 1928 - Andrew Fisher dies (b. 1862). fifth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1929 - Lev Yashin was born (d. 1990). Soviet footballer (goalkeeper).
• 1933 - Helmut Senekowitsch was born (d. 2007). Austrian footballer.
• 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 - Establishment of the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
• 1935 - Ann Rule was born. American true-crime writer.
• 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.
• 1937 - Manos Loïzos was born (d. 1982). Greek composer.
• 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 - George Cohe was born. English football player.
• 1939 - Tony Roberts was born. American actor.
• 1939 - Joaquim Chissano was born. President of Mozambique (1986 - ).
• 1942 - Annette Funicello was born. American actress.
• 1942 - Bobby Fuller was born (d. 1966). American rock singer and guitarist.
• 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 - Allen Coage was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1943 - Jan de Bont was born. Dutch film director.
• 1943 - Catherine Deneuve was born. French actress.
• 1945 - Leslie West was born. American musician.
• 1945 - Sheila Sherwood was born. British long jumper.
• 1945 - Yvan Ponton was born. Quebec actor and television host.
• 1945 - Eva María Duarte (Evita) / Juan Domingo Perón wedding.
• 1945 - Em Portugal, é criada a PIDE (Polícia Internacional de Defesa do Estado).
• 1946 - Forty four British sailors die when two British warships hit mines off the coast of Albania.
• 1946 - Kelvin MacKenzie was born. British media tycoon.
• 1946 - Claude Charron was born. French Canadian politician and TV personality.
• 1946 - Eddie Brigati was born. American singer (The Rascals).
• 1947 - Raymond Bachand was born. French Canadian politician and businessman.
• 1948 - Lynette Fromme was born. American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford.
• 1949 - Soviet Union detonates its first nuclear bomb.
• 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.
• 1952 - Ernst Rüdin dies (b. 1874). Swiss nazi physician.
• 1953 - Laos gains independence from France.
• 1954 - Oswald de Andrade dies (b. 1890). Brazilian writer.
• 1954 - West Germany joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
• 1954 - Jibanananda Das dies (b. 1899). Bengali poet.
• 1955 - Proclamação da república do Vietnam(e) do Sul.
• 1956 - A concrete girder weighing 200 tons kills 48 in Karachi, Pakistan.
• 1956 - Frank DiPino was born. American baseball player.
• 1957 - Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
• 1959 - Arto Salminen was born (d. 2005). Finnish writer.
• 1959 - Marc Shaiman was born. American composer.
• 1960 - Independence of Mali from France.
• 1960 - Ed Yost makes the first free flight of a modern hot-air balloon at Bruning, Nebraska.
• 1960 - Darryl Jenifer was born. American bassist (Bad Brains).
• 1960 - Cris Kirkwood was born. American musician (Meat Puppets).
• 1961 - Robert Torti was born. American actor.
• 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.
• 1962 - Bob Odenkirk was born. American actor and comedian (Mr. Show).
• 1963 - Brian Boitano was born. American figure skater.
• 1964 - Drazen Petrovic was born (d. 1993). Croatian basketball player.
• 1964 - Toby Mac was born. American singer and songwriter.
• 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 - End of the Second Kashmir War between India and Pakistan.
• 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. Italian actress.
• 1967 - Rita Guerra was born. Portuguese singer.
• 1967 - Ana Beatriz Nogueira was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1967 - Ron Tugnutt was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1967 - Ulrike Maier was born (d. 1994). Austrian alpine skier.
• 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."
• 1968 - Shaggy was born. Jamaican musician.
• 1968 - Stéphane Quintal was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1968 - Jay Johnston was born. American actor and comedian (Mr. Show).
• 1969 - Héctor Carrasco was born. Baseball player.
• 1969 - Helmut Lotti was born. Belgian singer.
• 1969 - Spike Jonze was born. American director and film producer.
• 1969 - Tommy Edwards dies (b. 1922). American signer.
• 1970 - Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns from Prime Minister of Malaysia.
• 1970 - Aníbal Freire da Fonseca dies (b. 1884). Brazilian journalist and jurist.
• 1971 - Rafael Bittencourt was born. Brazilian guitarist.
• 1972 - Accie Connor was born. American professional wrestler.
• 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.
• 1972 - D'Lo Brown was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1973 - Ana Furtado was born. Brazilian actress.
• 1973 - Pablo Casals dies in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (b. 1876). Spanish cellist and conductor.
• 1974 - Miroslav Satan was born. Slovakian hockey player.
• 1974 - Tim Kinsella was born. American musician.
• 1974 - Miroslav Šatan was born. Slovak ice hockey player.
• 1975 - Carlton Fisk of the Boston Red Sox hits a home run to win Game 6 of the 1975 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.
• 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."
• 1975 - Míchel Salgado was born. Spanish footballer.
• 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.
• 1976 - Jon Foreman was born. American musician, lead singer of the band "Switchfoot."
• 1978 - Owais Shah was born. English cricketer.
• 1978 - Dion Glover was born. American basketball player.
• 1978 - Chaswe Nsofwa was born (d. 2007). Zambian footballer.
• 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.
• 1980 - Garrett Tierney was born. American musician (Brand New).
• 1981 - The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
• 1981 - The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins.
• 1981 - The TGV railway service Paris-Lyon is inaugurated.
• 1981 - Russell Beneke was born. American film director, love of my life.
• 1981 - Olivier Pla was born. French racing driver.
• 1982 - Savitri Devi Mukherji dies (b. 1905). Indo-European esoteric Hitlerist.
• 1982 - Robinson Cano dies. American baseball player.
• 1983 - Two correctional officers were killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois.
• 1984 - Lee Ho was born. Korean football player.
• 1985 - Zachary Hanson was born. American musician (Hanson).
• 1985 - Viorica Ursuleac dies (b. 1894). Romanian soprano.
• 1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.
• 1986 - WNBC traffic reporter Jane Dornacker is killed when the helicopter she is riding in stalls and crashes into the Hudson River.
• 1986 - Kara Lang was born. Canadian soccer player.
• 1986 - Albert Szent-Györgyi dies (b. 1893). Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1986 - Jane Dornacker dies. Musician, actress, and traffic reporter for WNBC Radio.
• 1986 - Ye Jianying dies. Chinese general and politician.
• 1987 - John Coolidge Adams's opera Nixon in China debuts at the Houston Grand Opera in Houston, Texas.
• 1987 - The pinnacle rock Gendarme falls at Seneca Rocks.
• 1987 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky — Russian-born (dissident) American writer.
• 1987 - Jake Richardson was born. English footballer.
• 1987 - Lino Ventura dies (b. 1919). Italian-born actor.
• 1989 - Jacob Wetterling is abducted in St. Joseph, Minnesota.
• 1989 - Ewan MacColl dies (b. 1915). English folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer.
• 1990 - Seminal grunge band Pearl Jam, then named Mookie Blaylock, play their first show as a band at the Off Ramp club in Seattle, WA.
• 1990 - Jonathan Lipnicki was born. American actor.
• 1991 - Dimitrios Arhondonis, metropolitan of Chalcedon elected 270th Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch as Patriarch Bartholomew I of the Orthodox church.
• 1992 - Sofia Vassilieva was born. American actress.
• 1992 - Cleavon Little dies (b. 1939). American actor.
• 1995 - The largest gathering of world leaders in history marked the 50th anniversary of the United Nations.
• 1995 - Sir Kingsley Amis dies (b. 1922). English writer.
• 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.
• 2000 - Rodney Anoai (Yokozuna) dies (b. 1966). American professional wrestler.
• 2001 - Prof. Dr. Dkfm. Helmut Krackowizer dies (b. 1922). Journalist and motorcycle racer.
• 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 - Internet users declare this day as the official Caps Lock Day.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2005 - Arman dies (b. 1928). French-born artist.
• 2005 - Franky Gee dies (b. 1962). American singer (Captain Jack).
• 2005 - Tony Adams dies (b. 1953). Irish film producer.
• 2006 - A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
• 2006 - Michael Schumacher drives his last Formula 1 Race. The very same day the Spaniard Fernando Alonso wins the 2006 Formula 1 World Championship, becoming the 8th and youngest driver to win it twice in a row to emulate the achievements of Mika Häkkinen, Michael Schumacher and five other drivers.
• 2006 - Arthur Hill dies (b. 1922). Canadian actor.
• 2007 - Finish Raikonnen becomes Formula 1 World Championship in Brazil, last round of the championship.
• USA - Anti Police Brutality Day.
• Portugal: Feriado municipal em Grândola.