October 22 in history
Events on October 22
Notable events that happened on October 22 in past years.
- 2019
Same-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being restored.
Wikipedia article: Same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland - 2012
Cyclist Lance Armstrong is formally stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after being charged for doping.
Wikipedia article: Lance Armstrong - 2006
A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a national referendum.
Wikipedia article: Panama Canal expansion project - 1997
Danish fugitive Steen Christensen kills two police officers, Chief Constable Eero Holsti and Senior Constable Antero Palo, in Ullanlinna, Helsinki, Finland during his prison escape.
Wikipedia article: Steen Christensen - 1983
Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
Wikipedia article: Marion, Illinois - 1963
A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
Wikipedia article: BAC One-Eleven - 1946
Over twenty-two hundred engineers and technicians from eastern Germany are forced to relocate to the Soviet Union, along with their families and equipment.
Wikipedia article: Operation Osoaviakhim - 1934
In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill the notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
Wikipedia article: East Liverpool, Ohio - 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.
Wikipedia article: Montparnasse derailment - 1879
Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb; the bulb lasted 131⁄2 hours before burning out.
Wikipedia article: Thomas Edison - 1844
The Millerites (followers of Baptist preacher William Miller) anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day becomes known as the Great Disappointment.
Wikipedia article: Baptists - 1777
American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
Wikipedia article: American Revolutionary War - 1724
J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Adorn yourself, O dear soul) in Leipzig on the 20th Sunday after Trinity, based on the communion hymn of the same name.
Wikipedia article: Johann Sebastian Bach - 1303
Election of pope Benedict XI following the death of pope Boniface VIII in the previous weeks.
- 2137 BC
A solar eclipse occurs over China, one of the earliest recorded in human history, reportedly resulting in the executions of two astronomers who failed to predict it.
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