On This Day in History

October 22

Historical 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

Reconnaissance photo of Soviet missiles in Cuba shown to John F. Kennedy on October 16, 1962

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

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Famous Birthdays

Louis Riel 1844 - 1885 Sarah Bernhardt 1844 - 1923

Bảo Đại 1913 - 1997 Shaggy 56th Birthday

Also Franz Liszt and Christopher Lloyd (86).

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Famous Deaths

Ferdinand I 1345 - 1383 Pretty Boy Floyd 1904 - 1934

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Jumping Jacques Makes First Parachute Descent

Daredevil André-Jacques Garnerin took to the sky in a hydrogen balloon on this day and after cutting himself adrift performed the first ‘parachute’ descent.

First Parachute Jump