October 22

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

Events:

• 1746 - Princeton University receives its charter
• 1801 - Peace of Amiens armistice signed between British and French, see Horatio Nelson
• 1836 - Sam Houston inagurated as first President of the Republic of Texas
• 1897 - Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first parachute jump
• 1953 - Laos gains independence from France
• 1957 - First United States casualties in Vietnam
• 1962 - President John F. Kennedy announces a blockade of Cuba
• 1999 - Maurice Papon, French politician, jailed for war crimes
• annual - International Stuttering Awareness Day

Births:

• 1811 - Franz Liszt, composer (+ 1886)
• 1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, actress (+ 1923)
• 1844 - Louis Riel, Canadian politician
• 1887 - John Reed, radical journalist (+ 1920)
• 1870 - Alfred Douglas, partner of Oscar Wilde
• 1903 - Curly Howard[?], actor, member of the Three Stooges (+ 1952)
• 1904 - Constance Bennett[?], actress (+ 1965)
• 1917 - Joan Fontaine, actress
• 1919 - Doris Lessing, British writer
• 1920 - Timothy Leary, drug guru (+ 1996)
• 1922 - Lev Yashin, Soviet football goalkeeper
• 1925 - Dory Previn[?], songwriter
• 1936 - Bobby Seale, civil rights activist[?], member of the Black Panthers
• 1937 - Alan Ladd Jr.[?], film producer
• 1938 - Derek Jacobi, actor
• 1938 - Christopher Lloyd, actor
• 1943 - Catherine Deneuve, actress
• 1943 - Jan de Bont[?], film director
• 1945 - Leslie West[?]
• 1949 - Stiv Bators[?], musician (+ 1990)
• 1950 - Timothy Leary, psychologist, writer
• 1952 - Annette Funicello[?], actress
• 1953 - Jeff Goldblum[?], actor
• 1963 - Brian Botano[?], figure skating champion
• 1965 - John Wesley Harding[?], musician
• 1968 - Shaggy[?], musician

Deaths:

• 1917 - Bob Fitzsimmons, boxing champion
• 1934 - Pretty Boy Floyd[?], gangster
• 1973 - Pau Casals, Catalan virtuoso cellist and conductor
• 1995 - Sir Kingsley Amis, writer
• 1998 - Eric Ambler[?], novelist
• 2002 - Queen Geraldina of Albania[?]

Holidays:

October 21 - October 23 - November 22 - September 22 - more historical anniversaries