Events on October 22 58
Year 362
The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
Year 451
The Council of Chalcedon adopts the Chalcedonian Creed regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus Christ.
Year 906
Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh leads a raid against the Byzantine Empire from Tarsus. He reaches the Halys River and takes 4,000-5,000 captives.[1]
Year 1383
The 1383-85 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.
Year 1707
Scilly naval disaster: Four British naval vessels run aground on the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. In response, the first Longitude Act is enacted in 1714.
Year 1746
The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
Year 1777
American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
Year 1790
Warriors of the Miami people under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
Year 1797
André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris.
Year 1844
The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
Year 1866
A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, which had occurred three days before, on October 19.
Year 1878
The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
Year 1879
Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
Year 1883
The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
Year 1884
The Royal Observatory in Britain is adopted as the prime meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference.
Year 1895
In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below.
Year 1907
Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
Year 1910
Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
Year 1923
The royalist Leonardopoulos-Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
Year 1927
Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power.
Year 1928
Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
Year 1934
In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
Year 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.
Year 1943
World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
Year 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.
Year 1947
Kashmir conflict starts, a territorial conflict primarily between India and Pakistan, having started just after the partition of India in 1947.
Year 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.
Year 1963
A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
Year 1964
Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but turns down the honor.
Year 1964
Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official flag of Canada.
Year 1966
The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
Year 1968
Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
Year 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.
Year 1976
Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.
Year 1981
The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) for its strike the previous August.
Year 1981
The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organization faction led by Hareram Sharma and D. P. Singh begins.
Year 1983
Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
Year 1999
Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
Year 2001
Grand Theft Auto III was released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games as well as spurring controversy around violence in video games.
Year 2005
Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
Year 2006
A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
Year 2007
Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one died in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.
Year 2013
The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013
Year 2014
Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.