October 22

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY Franz Liszt Hungarian composer READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 1962 Cuban missile crisis READ MORE

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2010: WikiLeaks, a website founded by Julian Assange that functioned as a clearinghouse for classified or otherwise privileged information, released thousands of U.S. documents relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

2008: Chandrayaan-1, India's first lunar space probe, was launched, and it later found water in the Moon's atmosphere. [Take our quiz about space exploration.]

1964: French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre was announced the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature; however, he became the first person to decline the award. [Test your knowledge of Nobel laureates in literature.]

1943: French actress Catherine Deneuve, who was noted for her archetypal Gallic beauty as well as for her roles in films by some of the world's greatest directors, was born. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about A-list actors.]

1910: In one of the most notorious criminal cases of the 20th century, American physician Hawley Harvey Crippen (widely known as Dr. Crippen) was found guilty of murdering his wife; he was executed in a British prison the following month. [Read about 10 “trials of the century.”]

1906: French artist Paul Cézanne, considered one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, died at the age of 67. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about artists and painters.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1969 Spike Jonze American director and producer

1811 Franz Liszt Hungarian composer

1920 Timothy Leary American psychologist

1917 Joan Fontaine American actress

1943 Catherine Deneuve French actress

1938 Derek Jacobi British actor

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