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Events on the 22nd of October in history

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22 Oct 0362 The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
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22 Oct 0451 The Council of Chalcedon adopts the Chalcedonian Creed regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus Christ.
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22 Oct 0794 Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
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22 Oct 1335 Ex-Emperor Hanazono became a Zen priest
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22 Oct 1383 The 1383–85 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.
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22 Oct 1575 Foundation of Aguascalientes.
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22 Oct 1633 Battle of Liaoluo Bay: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
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22 Oct 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.
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22 Oct 1708 Great Alliance occupies Rijsel
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22 Oct 1721 Czar Peter the Great becomes "All-Russian Imperator"
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22 Oct 1730 Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.
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22 Oct 1746 The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
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22 Oct 1746 Princeton University (NJ) received its charter
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22 Oct 1777 American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
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22 Oct 1784 Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
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22 Oct 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.
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22 Oct 1797 André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris.
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22 Oct 1797 Andr
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22 Oct 1799 Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition
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22 Oct 1812 Duke of Wellington seizes Burgos Spain
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22 Oct 1819 1st ship sails by Erie-channel (Rome-Utica)
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22 Oct 1836 Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
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22 Oct 1844 7th day adventists wait for appearance of Jesus
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22 Oct 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.
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22 Oct 1859 Spain declares war on Morocco.
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22 Oct 1861 1st telegraph line linking West and East coasts completed
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22 Oct 1862 Battle at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory
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22 Oct 1862 Confederate troops reconquer Cumperland Gap, Tennessee
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22 Oct 1866 A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, occurred three days before, on October 19.
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22 Oct 1875 First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
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22 Oct 1875 Sons of the American Revolution organized
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22 Oct 1877 The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
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22 Oct 1878 The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
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22 Oct 1879 Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
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22 Oct 1881 Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its 1st concert
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22 Oct 1883 1st New York Horse Show held (Madison Square Garden)
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22 Oct 1883 The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
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22 Oct 1883 Original Metropolitan Opera House (NYC) grand opening (Faust)
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22 Oct 1884 General Gordon receives letter of Mahdi
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22 Oct 1884 Sporting Life announces that both pennant winners will meet in 3 game series October 23-25 at Polo Grounds NYC to determine baseball champion
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22 Oct 1885 John Ward and several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Prof Base Ball Players, 1st baseball union
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22 Oct 1895 In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below.
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22 Oct 1899 British troops flee Dundee, Natal South Africa
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22 Oct 1904 Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship
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22 Oct 1906 3000 blacks demonstrate and riot in Philadelphia
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22 Oct 1907 Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum and Bailey circus
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22 Oct 1907 Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
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22 Oct 1910 Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
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22 Oct 1913 Explosion at Dawson NM coal mine kills 263 mine workers
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22 Oct 1922 Lucerne Street in the Bronx named
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22 Oct 1922 Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, named for knight in Wagner's Opera
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22 Oct 1923 The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
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22 Oct 1924 Toastmasters International is founded.
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22 Oct 1926 J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal, precipitating his death.
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22 Oct 1927 Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including a motor with onephase electricity
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22 Oct 1928 China expels all Russian instructors and civil servants
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22 Oct 1928 President Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"
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22 Oct 1928 Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
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22 Oct 1929 French government of Briand falls
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22 Oct 1929 James H Scullin forms Australia government
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22 Oct 1930 1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult
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22 Oct 1930 SC Genemuiden soccer team forms
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22 Oct 1932 Charles de Broqueville becomes Premier of Belgium
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22 Oct 1932 George Kaufman and Edna Ferbers "Dinner at 8, " premieres in New York City
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22 Oct 1933 Primo Carnera beats Paulin in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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22 Oct 1934 In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
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22 Oct 1935 18th PGA Championship: Johnny Revolta at Twin Hills Country Club - Oklahoma City
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22 Oct 1936 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii
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22 Oct 1938 Chester Carlson demonstrates 1st Xerox copying machine
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22 Oct 1938 1st Xerox copy made
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22 Oct 1939 1st TV NFL game-Eagles vs Dodgers
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22 Oct 1941 World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
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22 Oct 1942 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland
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22 Oct 1942 US gens Clark and Lemnitzer and French General Mast meet secretly in Algeria
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22 Oct 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.
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22 Oct 1946 2 British ships sink near Albania
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22 Oct 1946 Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim takes place, recruiting of thousands of military-related technical specialists from the Soviet occupation zone of post-World-War-II Germany for employment in the Soviet Union.
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22 Oct 1948 Egyptian flagship King Farouk sunk by Israel
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22 Oct 1949 Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:21.2)
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22 Oct 1949 200 killed in train derailment near Nowy Dwor Poland
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22 Oct 1950 LA Rams beat Baltimore Colts 70-27
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22 Oct 1951 Earthquake hits Formosa, 100 killed
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22 Oct 1953 Laos gains full independence from France
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22 Oct 1954 West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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22 Oct 1955 WWNY TV channel 7 in Carthage-Watertown, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting
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22 Oct 1956 France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella
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22 Oct 1957 Conrad Adenauer re-elected chancellor of West-Germany
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22 Oct 1957 KJAC TV channel 4 in Port Arthur-Beaumont, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast
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22 Oct 1957 Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
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22 Oct 1959 "Take Me Along" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 448 performances
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22 Oct 1960 Cassius Clay wins 1st battle as professional boxer
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22 Oct 1961 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights and Flemish language in Belgium
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22 Oct 1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Golf Civitan
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22 Oct 1962 JFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba
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22 Oct 1962 JFK receives Ugandan Premier Milton Obote
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22 Oct 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.
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22 Oct 1962 JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis
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22 Oct 1962 Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center
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22 Oct 1963 A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
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22 Oct 1963 225,000 students boycott Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest
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22 Oct 1964 EMI rejects audition by "High Numbers, " they go on to become The Who
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22 Oct 1964 French philosopher / Author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize
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22 Oct 1964 Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but turns down the honor.
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22 Oct 1964 Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official flag of Canada.
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22 Oct 1966 The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
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22 Oct 1966 The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
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22 Oct 1966 USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon
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22 Oct 1967 Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA Carlsbad Jaycee Golf Open
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22 Oct 1968 Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
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22 Oct 1968 Apollo 7 returns to Earth
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22 Oct 1969 Paul McCartney denies rumors of his death
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22 Oct 1969 KAPN-AM in Santa Barbara CA changes call letters to KDB-AM
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22 Oct 1972 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA GAC Golf Classic
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22 Oct 1972 Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.
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22 Oct 1972 Oakland A's 1st championship; beat Reds, 4 games to 3 in 69th World Series
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22 Oct 1973 Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon
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22 Oct 1973 Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to the Yom Kippur War
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22 Oct 1974 Yanks trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds
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22 Oct 1975 "Me & Bessie" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 453 performances
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22 Oct 1975 Turkish diplomat shot to death in Vienna
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22 Oct 1975 The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
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22 Oct 1975 Cin Reds beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 72nd World Series
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22 Oct 1975 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus
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22 Oct 1975 World Football League disbands
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22 Oct 1976 Rick Barry (San Francisco), begins then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
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22 Oct 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.
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22 Oct 1977 International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 & 2 launched into Earth orbit
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22 Oct 1978 "King of Hearts" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances
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22 Oct 1978 9th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:12:12
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22 Oct 1978 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Houston Exchange Golf Classic Clubs
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22 Oct 1978 Grete Weitz runs female world record marathon (2:32:29.8)
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22 Oct 1978 Pope John Paul II installed
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22 Oct 1978 Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II.
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22 Oct 1978 Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession
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22 Oct 1979 Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in New York for medical treatment
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22 Oct 1979 Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest
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22 Oct 1980 4th government of Martens forms in Belgium
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22 Oct 1980 New South Korean constitution comes into effect
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22 Oct 1981 Start of 1st-class game at Newcastle, NSW vs. Queensland
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22 Oct 1981 The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
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22 Oct 1981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization decertified
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22 Oct 1981 US national debt tops $1 trillion
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22 Oct 1982 Gene Mauch resigns as manager of Angels
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22 Oct 1983 Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
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22 Oct 1984 Paul McCartney releases "Give My Regards to Broad Street" soundtrack
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22 Oct 1984 NFL quarterback Ken Stabler retires
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22 Oct 1985 Bret Saberhagen gives Kansas City Royals their 1st World Series win
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22 Oct 1986 "Into the Light" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 6 performances
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22 Oct 1987 "Cabaret" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 262 performances
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22 Oct 1987 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky
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22 Oct 1988 Elton John sells out Madison Square Garden for a record 26th time
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22 Oct 1988 Elton John sells out MSG for a record 26th time
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22 Oct 1988 Supreme Ct Justice Sandra Day O'Connor OK after breast cancer surgery
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22 Oct 1989 Red Khmer occupies Pailin in Cambodia
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22 Oct 1989 Denver Nuggets beat Jugoplastika Split 135-129 in 3rd McDonald Open
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22 Oct 1991 General Motors announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion
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22 Oct 1992 Atlanta, becomes 1st US team to win a World Series game out of US
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22 Oct 1992 Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) launches into space
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22 Oct 1993 Actor James Coburn (65) weds Paula Murad (37)
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22 Oct 1993 Cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov makes record 9th space walk
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22 Oct 1994 "Philadelphia, Here I Come" closes at Criterion NYC after 52 performances
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22 Oct 1994 Statue of Sam Houston unveiled in Texas
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22 Oct 1994 Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (53,832 km)
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22 Oct 1995 "Swinging On a Star" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 97 performances
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22 Oct 1996 New York 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)
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22 Oct 1997 2nd longest 9 inning World Series game (4:12) as Marlins and Indians were tied 7-7 going into the 9th, Mariners win 14-11
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22 Oct 1997 Cleveland Marquis Grissom World Series hitting streak ends after 15 games
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22 Oct 1997 Compaq testifies Microsoft threaten to break Windows 95 agreement if they showcased a Netscape icon
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22 Oct 1997 Larry Flynt sells Hustler in a non-zoned area of Cincinnati
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22 Oct 1997 New York Ranger Wayne Gretsky wife Janet is knocked unconscious and gets 2 stitches while watching the game as a plexiglass falls on her
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22 Oct 1997 Yahoo completes purchase of Four11
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22 Oct 1999 Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
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22 Oct 2001 Grand Theft Auto III was released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games as well as spurring controversy around violence in video games.
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22 Oct 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.
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22 Oct 2006 A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
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22 Oct 2007 Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one died in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.
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22 Oct 2008 India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
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22 Oct 2013 The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013
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22 Oct 2014 Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa, Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
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22 Oct 2136 -BC- Chinese make 1st record of a solar eclipse
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22 Oct 4004 -BC- Universe created at 8:00 PM, according to the 1650
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22 Oct 4004 -BC- pronouncement of Anglican archbishop James Ussher
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