22 October

The **22t o October** is the 295t day o the year (296t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 70 days bidin.

## Events

* 1575 - Foondin o the ceety o Aguascalientes, in the present-day state o the same name in Central Mexico.
* 1707 - A Ryal Navy ship strands o the Isles o Scilly naur Cornwall, killin ower 1,600 fowk.
* 1784 - Roushie foonds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
* 1836 - Sam Houston becomes Preses o the Republic o Texas.
* 1859 - Spain declares war on Morocco.
* 1877 - A minin disaster in Blantyre, Sooth Lanrikshire, Scotland, kills 215 fowk.
* 1883 - The Metropolitan Opera Hoose in New York Ceety opens.
* 1895 - A train crashes through the windae o the Montparnasse Station in Paris.
* 1927 - Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions.
* 1943 - Warld War II: A Ryal Air Force air raid on Kassel, Hesse, Germany, kills 10,000 fowk.
* 1962 - The Cuban Missile Creesis stairts.
* 1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre rejects the Nobel Prize in Leeteratur.
* 1978 - Inauguration o Pape John Paul II.
* 2005 - Tropical Storm Alpha forms, breakin the record for the nummer o storms in a single North Atlantic Hurricane season.
* 2005 - A Bellview Airlines Boeing 737 airliner crashes shortly efter tak-aff frae Lagos, Nigerie, killin 111 fowk.
* 2006 - A referendum in Panama supports the expansion o the Panama Canal.
* 2008 - Indie launches an unmanned Muin mission, Chandrayaan 1.
* 2010 - Nuclear-powered submarine HMS ''Astute'' runs agroond naur Skye.
* 2014 - 2014 attacks at Pairlament Hill, Ottawa, Canadae.
* 2015 - The Hoose o Commons o the Unitit Kinrick votes bi a majority for the "Inglis Votes for Inglis Laws" proposal, strippin MPs frae Scotland, Wales an Northren Ireland o some votin richts.
* 2017 - Shinzo Abe's Leeberal Democratic Pairty wins early pairlamentary elections in Japan.
* 2019 - The deadline for the re-instatin o the Northren Ireland Assembly passes, meanin that the abortion an semme-sex mairiage laws decidit in Lunnon are due tae become legal there.
* 2019 - The enthronement ceremony o Emperor Naruhito o Japan taks place.

## Births

* 1689 - Keeng John V o Portugal (d. 1750)
* 1781 - Louis Joseph, Dauphin o Fraunce (d. 1789)
* 1811 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian componer (d. 1886)
* 1836 - Mungo Park, Scots gowfer (d. 1904)
* 1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)
* 1870 - Ivan Bunin, Roushie writer (d. 1953)
* 1881 - Clinton Davisson, American pheesicist (d. 1958)
* 1913 - Bao Dai, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1997)
* 1915 - Yitzhak Shamir, 7t Prime meenister o Israel (d. 2012)
* 1917 - Joan Fontaine, Japan-born Inglis-American actress (d. 2013)
* 1919 - Doris Lessing, Inglis writer (d. 2013)
* 1923 - Bert Trautmann, German fitbawer (d. 2013)
* 1929 - Lev Yashin, Roushie fitbawer (d. 1990)
* 1931 - Ann Rule, American writer (d. 2015)
* 1938 - Alan Gilzean, Scots fitbawer (d. 2018)
* 1938 - Derek Jacobi, Inglis actor
* 1938 - Christopher Lloyd, American actor
* 1943 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress
* 1949 - Arsène Wenger, French fitbawer an manager
* 1952 - Jeff Goldblum, American actor
* 1964 - Craig Levein, Scots fitbawer an manager
* 1965 - A. L. Kennedy, Scots writer
* 1968 - Shaggy, Jamaican-American muisicker, sangster an DJ
* 1973 - Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese basebaw player
* 1983 - Plan B, Inglis sangster
* 1988 - Sharon Rooney, Scots actress
* 1990 - Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
* 1990 - Paul McGinn, Scots fitbawer
* 1998 - Harry Souttar, Scots-Australie fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1839 - George Campbell, 6t Duke o Argyll, Scots politeecian (b. 1768)
* 1871 - Roderick Murchison, Scots geologist (b. 1792)
* 1902 - John Faed, Scots penter (b. 1819)
* 1906 - Paul Cézanne, French penter (b. 1839)
* 1915 - Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet, Scots pheesicist (b. 1831)
* 1928 - Andrew Fisher, Scots-born 5t Prime Meenister o Australie (b. 1862)
* 1958 - Thomas Archibald Sprague, Scots botanist (b. 1877)
* 1995 - Kingsley Amis, Inglis writer (b. 1922)

## Halidays
* Roman Catholicism: Feast Day for Pape John Paul II

## References