SomeFacts | October 22

On this day - October 22

451 — The Chalcedonian Creed, regarding the divine and human nature ...

794 — Japanese Emperor Kanmu relocates his empire's capital to ...

906 — Abbasid general Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh leads a raid against the ...

1383 — The male line of the Portuguese House of Burgundy becomes ...

1721 — The Russian Empire is proclaimed by Tsar Peter I after the ...

1724 — J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Schmücke dich, o ...

1730 — Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed in Russia.

1739 — The War of Jenkins' Ear begins with the first attack on ...

1746 — The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) ...

1777 — American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer ...

1790 — Northwest Indian War: Native American forces defeat the United ...

1797 — André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute ...

1836 — Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the ...

1844 — The Millerites (followers of Baptist preacher William Miller) ...

1859 — Spain declares war on Morocco.

1866 — A plebiscite ratifies the annexation of Veneto and Mantua to ...

1877 — The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.

1879 — Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the ...

1883 — The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a ...

1884 — The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal ...

1895 — In Paris, an express train derails after overrunning the ...

1907 — A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets ...

1910 — Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the ...

1923 — The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état ...

1934 — In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill the ...

1936 — Dod Orsborne, captain of the Girl Pat is convicted of its ...

1941 — World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other ...

1943 — World War II: In the second firestorm raid on Germany, the ...

1946 — Over twenty-two hundred engineers and technicians from eastern ...

1962 — Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal ...

1963 — A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the ...

1964 — Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, ...

1975 — The Soviet uncrewed space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.

1981 — The US Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify ...

1983 — Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United ...

1987 — John Adams' opera Nixon in China premiered at the Houston ...

1992 — Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-52 to deploy the ...

1997 — Danish fugitive Steen Christensen kills two police officers, ...

1999 — Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy government during ...

2005 — Bellview Airlines Flight 210 crashes in Nigeria, killing all ...

2005 — Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the ...

2006 — A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of ...

2007 — A raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 ...

2008 — India launches its first uncrewed lunar probe mission ...

2012 — Cyclist Lance Armstrong is formally stripped of his seven Tour ...

2013 — The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian ...

2014 — Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing ...

2019 — Same-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised ...