WillDekkard
10-21-2012, 09:17 PM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - October 22nd
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794 Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
1383 The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.
1575 Foundation of Aguascalientes.
1633 Battle of southern Fujian sea: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
1707 Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown.
1730 Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.
1746 The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
1777 American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
1784 Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
1790 Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
1797 One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, Andrι-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 Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
1859 Spain declares war on Morocco.
1866 A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, occurred three days before, on October 19.
1875 First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
1877 The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
1878 The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
1879 Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
1883 The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
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.
1907 Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
1910 Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
1924 Toastmasters International is founded.
1926 J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
1927 Nikola Tesla exposed his six (6) new inventions including motor with onephase electricity
1928 Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
1934 In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
1941 World War II: French resistance member Guy Mτquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
1943 World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
1946 Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim takes place.
1957 Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
1963 A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
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).
1966 The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
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.
1975 The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
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.
1983 Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
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.
2006 A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
2007 Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one died in this attack. Eight Sri Lankan Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.
2008 India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
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This Date in History - October 22nd
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794 Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
1383 The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.
1575 Foundation of Aguascalientes.
1633 Battle of southern Fujian sea: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
1707 Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown.
1730 Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.
1746 The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
1777 American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
1784 Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
1790 Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
1797 One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, Andrι-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 Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
1859 Spain declares war on Morocco.
1866 A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, occurred three days before, on October 19.
1875 First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
1877 The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
1878 The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
1879 Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
1883 The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
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.
1907 Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
1910 Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
1924 Toastmasters International is founded.
1926 J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
1927 Nikola Tesla exposed his six (6) new inventions including motor with onephase electricity
1928 Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
1934 In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
1941 World War II: French resistance member Guy Mτquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
1943 World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
1946 Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim takes place.
1957 Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
1963 A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
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).
1966 The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
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.
1975 The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
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.
1983 Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
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.
2006 A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
2007 Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one died in this attack. Eight Sri Lankan Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.
2008 India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
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