Major Events
- 1633 Battle of Liaoluo Bay: Dutch East India Company defeated by Chinese Ming naval forces in southern Fujian sea
- 1721 Tsar Peter the Great titles himself “Emperor of All Russia”
- 1879 Thomas Edison perfects the carbonized cotton filament light bulb
- 1884 International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) worldwide and creates 24 international time zones with longitude zero at the Greenwich Meridian
- 1907 A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock leads to a nationwide run on US banks and the Panic of 1907
- 1962 US President John F. Kennedy makes a live television address about Soviet missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the Cuban Missile Crisis
Oct 22 in Film & TV
- 1942 “Now, Voyager” film directed by Irving Rapper, and starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Claude Rains, premieres in New York; wins 3 Academy Awards
Oct 22 in Music
- 1883 New York’s original Metropolitan Opera House has its grand opening with a performance of Charles Gounod‘s opera “Faust”
Oct 22 in Sport
- 1978 New York City Marathon: Grete Waitz of Norway wins in her race debut in world record 2:32:30; Bill Rodgers wins his third straight title in 2:12:12
Did You Know?
An express train in Paris overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 meters of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse
Fun Fact About October 22
André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first parachute descent from a balloon in Paris
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