October 22

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 them that the world would end on this day.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 - Gays in the military: 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.
• 1999 - Maurice Papon, French politician, is jailed for war crimes.

Births

• 1811 - Franz Liszt, composer († 1886)
• 1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, actress († 1923)
• 1844 - Louis Riel, Canadian politician († 1885)
• 1887 - John Reed, radical journalist († 1920)
• 1870 - Alfred Douglas, partner of Oscar Wilde
• 1903 - Curly Howard, actor, member of the Three Stooges († 1952)
• 1904 - Constance Bennett, actress († 1965)
• 1917 - Joan Fontaine, actress
• 1919 - Doris Lessing, British writer
• 1920 - Timothy Leary, writer, drug guru († 1996)
• 1922 - Lev Yashin, Soviet football goalkeeper († 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
• 1949 - Stiv Bators, musician († 1990)
• 1952 - Annette Funicello, actress
• 1953 - Jeff Goldblum, actor
• 1963 - Brian Boitano, figure skating champion
• 1964 - Drazen Petrovic, Basketball Hall of Famer († 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
• 1934 - Pretty Boy Floyd, gangster
• 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

• International Stuttering Awareness Day

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