October 22

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October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 70 days remaining.

Events

1746 - The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
1797 - 3,200 feet above Paris, Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
1836 - Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1844 - Adherents of Millerism recognize this day as "The Great Disappointment;" their leader, William Miller, had told them that the world would end on this day.
1907 - Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
1934 - In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.
1953 - Laos gains independence from France.
1957 - Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy announces that American spy planes have have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but he turns down the award.
1966 - The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (Supremes a Go-Go).
1968 - Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
1972 - Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris. Thieu rejects the proposal and accused the United States of conspiring to undermine his regime
1975 - Gays in the military: United States Air Force Technical Sergeant and decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, Leonard Matlovich, is given a general discharge after appearing in his air force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "I AM A HOMOSEXUAL."
1981 - The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
1986 - US President Ronald Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.
1999 - Maurice Papon, French politician, is jailed for war crimes.