October 22 in History

Historical Events on October 22

362 The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.

1746 The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.

1777 American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.

1941 World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.

1946 Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim takes place, recruiting of thousands of military-related technical specialists from the Soviet occupation zone of post-World-War-II Germany for employment in the Soviet Union.

1947 Kashmir conflict starts, a territorial conflict primarily between India and Pakistan, having started just after the partition of India in 1947.

1957 Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.

1972 Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.

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Famous Birthdays on October 22

1844 Sarah Bernhardt

1920 Timothy Leary

1949 Arsène Wenger

1973 Ichiro Suzuki

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Famous Deaths on October 22

1917 Bob Fitzsimmons

1928 Andrew Fisher

1954 Jibanananda Das

2002 Richard Helms

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