Notable Historical Events on October 22nd
October 22nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
362 |
The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire. |
794 |
Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto). |
1335 |
Ex-emperor Hanazono (95th Emperor of Japan) became a Zen priest |
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 (one of 32 Federal Entities of Mexico) |
1633 |
Ming dynasty fight with Dutch East India Company that Battle of southern Fujian sea (1633), Ming dynasty won great victory. |
1708 |
Great Alliance occupies Rijsel |
1721 |
Tsar Peter the Great becomes "All-Russian Imperator" |
1746 |
Princeton University (NJ) received its charter |
1797 |
Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute descent from a balloon (Paris) |
1799 |
Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition |
1812 |
Duke of Wellington seizes Burgos, Spain |
1819 |
1st ship sails by Erie-channel (Rome-Utica) |
1836 |
Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas |
1844 |
Millerite Adventists wait for appearance of Jesus |
1861 |
1st telegraph line linking West & East coasts completed |
1862 |
Battle at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory |
1862 |
Confederate troops reconquer Cumperland Gap, Tennessee |
1866 |
Paraguay: Battle of Curupaytí against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. |
1867 |
Foundation of the National University of Colombia. |
1868 |
Jacques Offenbach's opera "Genevieve de Brabant" premieres in NYC |
1875 |
Sons of American Revolution organizes |
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. |
1879 |
Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb |
1881 |
Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert |
1883 |
1st NY Horse Show held (Madison Sq Garden) |
1883 |
Original Metropolitan Opera House (NYC) grand opening (Faust) |
1884 |
General Gordon receives letter of Mahdi |
1884 |
Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series Oct 23-25 at Polo Grounds NYC to determine baseball champion |
1884 |
The International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, USA adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) worldwide, creating 24 international time zones with longitude zero at the Greenwich meridian |
1885 |
John Ward & several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Prof Base Ball Players, 1st baseball union |
1895 |
David Belasco's "Heart of Maryland" premieres in NYC |
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. |
1897 |
World's first car dealer opens in London |
1899 |
British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa |
1904 |
Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship |
1906 |
3000 blacks demonstrate & riot in Phila |
1906 |
Henry Ford becomes President of Ford Motor Company |
1907 |
Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum & Bailey circus |
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. |
1913 |
Explosion at Dawson NM coal mine kills 263 mine workers |
1922 |
Lucerne Street in Bronx named |
1922 |
Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, named for knight in Wagner's Opera |
1924 |
Toastmasters International is founded. |
1926 |
J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal. |
1928 |
China expels all Russian instructors & civil servants |
1928 |
ESL Robinson's "Far-Off Hills" premieres in Dublin |
1928 |
Herbert Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism" |
1928 |
Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. |
1929 |
French government of Briand falls |
1929 |
James H Scullin forms Australia government |
1930 |
1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult |
1930 |
Blake & Razaf's "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930" premieres in NYC |
1930 |
SC Genemuiden soccer team forms |
1932 |
Charles de Broqueville becomes premier of Belgium |
1932 |
George Kaufman & Edna Ferbers "Dinner at 8" premieres in NYC |
1933 |
Primo Carnera beats Paulin in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1934 |
In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. |
1935 |
18th PGA Championship: Johnny Revolta at Twin Hills CC Oklahoma City |
1935 |
Establishment of the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. |
1936 |
1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii |
1938 |
Chester Carlson demonstrates 1st Xerox copying machine |
1939 |
1st TV NFL game-Eagles vs Dodgers |
1941 |
Maxwell Anderson's "Candle in the Wind" premieres in NYC |
1942 |
1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland |
1942 |
US gens Clark & Lemnitzer & French gen Mast meet secretly in Algeria |
1944 |
Kurita's vice-admiral fleet leaves North-Borneo |
1946 |
2 British ships sink near Albania |
1948 |
Egyptian flagship King Farouk sunk by Israel |
1949 |
200 killed in train derailment near Nowy Dwor Poland |
1949 |
Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:21.2) |
1950 |
LA Rams beat Baltimore Colts 70-27 |
1951 |
Earthquake hits Formosa, 100 killed |
1951 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1953 |
Laos gains full independence from France |
1954 |
West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
1955 |
WWNY TV channel 7 in Carthage-Watertown, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella |
1956 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
1956 |
A concrete girder weighing 200 tons kills 48 in Karachi, Pakistan. |
1957 |
Conrad Adenauer re-elected chancellor of West-Germany |
1957 |
KJAC TV channel 4 in Port Arthur-Beaumont, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast |
1959 |
Bob Merrill's musical "Take Me Along" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 448 performances |
1961 |
75,000 Flemings demand equal rights & Flemish language in Belgium |
1961 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Golf Civitan |
1962 |
JFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba |
1962 |
JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis |
1962 |
JFK receives Ugandan premier Milton Obote |
1962 |
Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1963 |
225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest |
1963 |
BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes on October 22 in UK with the loss of all on board. |
1964 |
EMI rejects audition by "High Numbers"; they go on to become The Who |
1964 |
French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize |
1964 |
US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg, Miss |
1966 |
USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon |
1966 |
Ice hockey legend Bobby Orr scores his first career goal (vs Montreal Canadiens) |
1967 |
17th Ryder Cup: US wins 23½-8½ at Champions Golf Club (Houston, Texas, US) |
1967 |
Ian Brayshaw (W Aus v Vic, Perth) takes all 10 cricket wkts |
1967 |
Joe DiMaggio is hired as executive VP of A's by Charlie Finley |
1967 |
Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA Carlsbad Jaycee Golf Open |
1968 |
Apollo 7 returns to Earth |
1969 |
KAPN-AM in Santa Barbara CA changes call letters to KDB-AM |
1969 |
Paul McCartney denies rumors of his death |
1971 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1972 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA GAC Golf Classic |
1972 |
Oakland A's 1st championship; beat Reds, 4 games to 3 in World Series |
1973 |
Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon |
1973 |
Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to Yom Kippur War |
1974 |
Yanks trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds |
1975 |
"Me & Bessie" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 453 performances |
1975 |
Cin Reds beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 72nd World Series |
1975 |
Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus |
1975 |
Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna |
1975 |
World Football League disbands after the Week 12 of their second season |
1976 |
Rick Barry (SF), begins then longest NBA free throw streak of 60 |
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. |
1977 |
International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 & 2 launched into Earth orbit |
1978 |
"King of Hearts" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances |
1978 |
8th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:32:30 |
1978 |
9th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:12:12 |
1978 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Houston Exchange Golf Classic Clubs |
1978 |
Grete Weitz runs female world record marathon (2:32:29.8) |
1978 |
Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession |
1978 |
Pope John Paul II is inaugurated as Pope |
1979 |
"One Mo' Time" with Vernel Bagners premieres in NYC |
1979 |
Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in NY for medical treatment |
1979 |
Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest |
1980 |
4th government of Martens forms in Belgium |
1980 |
New South Korean constitution comes into effect |
1981 |
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization decertified |
1981 |
Start of 1st-class game at Newcastle, NSW v Queensland |
1981 |
US national debt tops $1 trillion |
1981 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
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 |
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved aspartame artificial sweetener for tabletop use following years of scrutiny |
1982 |
Gene Mauch resigns as manager of Angels |
1983 |
Two correctional officers are killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspired the Supermax model of prisons. |
1984 |
NFL quarterback Ken Stabler retires |
1984 |
Paul McCartney releases "Give My Regards to Broad Street" soundtrack |
1985 |
Bret Saberhagen gives KC Royals their 1st win leading to their World Series title |
1986 |
"Into the Light" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 6 performances |
1987 |
"Cabaret" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 262 performances |
1987 |
Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky |
1988 |
Elton John sells out Madison Square Garden for a record 26th time |
1988 |
Supreme Ct Justice Sandra Day O'Connor OK after breast cancer surgery |
1989 |
Denver Nuggets beat Jugoplastika Split 135-129 in 3rd McDonald Open |
1989 |
Red Khmer occupies Pailin in Cambodia |
1991 |
General Motors announces 9 month loss of $US2.2 billion |
1992 |
Atlanta, becomes 1st US team to win a World Series game out of US |
1992 |
Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) launches into space |
1992 |
Wendy Wasserstein's "Sisters Rosensweig" premieres in NYC |
1993 |
Cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov makes record 9th space walk |
1994 |
"Philadelphia, Here I Come" closes at Criterion NYC after 52 perfs |
1994 |
Statue of Sam Houston unveiled in Texas |
1994 |
Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (53,832 km) |
1995 |
"Swinging On a Star" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 97 perfs |
1996 |
NY Yankee Bernie Williams hits record tying 7th post season HR, as Yanks tie record of 6th straight post season road win (en route to 8) |
1997 |
Cleve Marquis Grissom World Series hitting streak ends after 15 games |
1997 |
Coldest World Series game Marlins vs Cleveland (38°F) |
1997 |
Larry Flynt sells Hustler in a non-zoned area of Cincinnati |
1997 |
Yahoo completes purchase of Four11 |
1997 |
NY Ranger Wayne Gretsky wife Janet is knocked unconcious & gets 2 stitches while watching the game as a plexiglass falls on her |
1997 |
2nd longest 9 inning World Series game (4:12) as Marlins & Indians were tied 7-7 going into the 9th, Mariners win 14-11 |
1997 |
Compaq testifies Microsoft threaten to break Windows 95 agreement if they showcased a Netscape icon |
1999 |
Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity. |
1999 |
NHL goaltender Grant Fuhr wins his 400th career game (vs Florida Panthers) |
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. |
2006 |
A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama. |
2008 |
India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1. |
2012 |
6 Italian scientists are convicted of manslaughter for their failure to predict the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake |
2012 |
Hurricane Sandy forms in the Western Caribbean Sea |
2013 |
37 Boko Harem Islamist militants are killed by air and ground strikes in Nigeria |
2013 |
22 security force personal are killed in attacks on military checkpoints in Anbar Province, Iraq |
2016 |
Philippine president says he won't sever ties with US |
2017 |
Astros reach World Series, top Yankees 4-0 in Game 7 of ALCS |
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