Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 22
This is a list of selected October 22 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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King Fernando of Portugal -
Sam Houston -
Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd -
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Cuban missiles -
Edison's carbon filament light bulb
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1383 – King Ferdinand I died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, resulting in a period of civil war and anarchy. | refimprove, Ferdinand article too short (and refimprove) |
| 1730 – Construction of the Ladoga Canal linking the Neva and the Svir River, one of the first major canals constructed in Russia, was completed. | refimprove |
| 1836 – Sam Houston became the first president of the Republic of Texas. | tagged for expansion |
| 1844 – Millerites, including future members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, were greatly disappointed that Jesus did not return as predicted by American preacher William Miller. | refimprove |
| 1883 – The Metropolitan Opera in New York City opened with a performance of French composer Charles Gounod's opera Faust. | refimprove/unreferenced sections |
| 1924 – The educational non-profit organization Toastmasters International was founded at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California. | primary sources, needs expansion |
| 1934 – Pretty Boy Floyd, an American bank robber and alleged killer who was later romanticized by the media, was gunned down by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents near East Liverpool, Ohio. | lots of {{cn}} tags |
| 1964 – After the Nobel Committee announced that he had won the Nobel Prize in Literature, French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre became the first Nobel Laureate to voluntarily decline the prize, saying that he did not wish to be "transformed" by such an award. | external links |
| 1999 – Vichy France official Maurice Papon was jailed for crimes against humanity committed during World War II. | unreferenced sections |
| 2006 – An expansion project to double the Panama Canal's capacity was approved by Panamanian voters in a national referendum by a wide margin. | original research |
Eligible
- 1633 – Ming Chinese naval forces defeated a Dutch East India Company fleet in the Taiwan Strait, the largest naval encounter between Chinese and European forces before the First Opium War two hundred years later.
- 1707 – In one of the worst maritime disasters in the history of the British Isles, more than 1,400 sailors on four Royal Navy ships were lost in stormy weather off the Isles of Scilly.
- 1797 – Dropping from a hydrogen balloon 3,200 feet (980 m) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin carried out the first descent using a frameless parachute.
- 1877 – The Blantyre mining disaster, Scotland's worst mining accident, occurred when an explosion at a colliery in Blantyre killed 207 miners.
- 1879 – Thomas Edison performed a successful test using a carbon filament thread in an incandescent light bulb, which would become the most successful version of the product.
- 1907 – A bank run forced New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations, which triggered the Panic of 1907.
- 2008 – India launched Chandrayaan-1, the country's first unmanned lunar mission.
Notes
- Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse appears on October 12 so André-Jacques Garnerin should not appear in the same year.
October 22: International Stuttering Awareness Day
- 1740 – A two-week massacre of ethnic Chinese in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, came to an end with at least 10,000 people killed.
- 1884 – The Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, was adopted as Universal Time meridian of longitude.
- 1895 – At Gare Montparnasse station in Paris, an express train derailed after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing the concourse before crashing through a wall and falling to the plaza below (pictured).
- 1962 – Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that Soviet nuclear weapons had been discovered in Cuba and that he had ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
- 2013 – The Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013 made the Australian Capital Territory the nation's first jurisdiction to legalise same-sex marriage, although the High Court struck the act down two months later.