History of 22 October
1907 – The Panic of 1907 began when depositors began withdrawing money from many New York banks.
1939 – The first televised pro football game was telecast from New York. Brooklyn defeated Philadelphia 23-14.
1950 – The Los Angeles Rams set an NFL record by defeating the Baltimore Colts 70-27. It was a record score for a regular-season game.
1954 – The Federal Republic of Germany was invited to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
1959 – “Take Me Along” opened on Broadway.
1962 – U.S. President Kennedy went on radio and television to inform the United States about his order to send U.S. forces to blockade Cuba. The blockade was in response to the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.
1968 – Apollo 7 splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean. The spacecraft had orbited the Earth 163 times.
1975 – Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich was discharged after publicly declaring his homosexuality. His tombstone reads ” “A Gay Vietnam Veteran. When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.”
1979 – The ousted Shah of Iran, Mohammad Riza Pahlavi was allowed into the U.S. for medical treatment.
1981 – The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified by the federal government for its strike the previous August.
1983 – At the Augusta National Golf Course in Georgia, an armed man crashed a truck through front gates and demanded to speak with U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
1986 – U.S. President Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.
1991 – The European Community and the European Free Trade Association agreed to create a free trade zone of 19 nations by the year 1993.
1995 – The 50th anniversary of the United Nations was marked by a record number of world leaders gathering.
1998 – The United Nations announced that over 2 million children had been killed in war as innocent victims since 1987.
1998 – Pakistan’s carpet weaving industry announced that they would begin to phase out child labor.
1999 – China ended its first-ever human rights conference in which it defied Western definitions of civil liberties.
1999 – The U.N. Security Council voted to send 6,000 troops to Sierra Leone to oversee a peace plan that had been signed in July.
2008 – The iTunes Music Store reached 200 million applications downloaded.
2010 – The Internation Space Station set the record (3641 days) for the longest continuous human occupation of space. It had been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000.
2014 – The iPad Air 2 was released in the U.S.
Celebrating Birthday Today
- 1981 – Michael Fishman, American actor, and producer
- 1981 – Olivier Pla, French race car driver
- 1982 – Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player
- 1982 – Tim Erfen, German footballer
- 1982 – Heath Miller, American football player
- 1982 – Mark Renshaw, Australian cyclist
- 1983 – Byul, South Korean singer
- 1983 – Anton Müller, German footballer
- 1983 – Plan B, British singer, and actor
- 1984 – Horacio Agulla, Argentine rugby player
- 1984 – Aleks Marić, Australian basketball player
- 1985 – Federico Ágreda, Venezuelan musician
- 1985 – Hadise, Belgian-Turkish singer-songwriter, and dancer
- 1985 – Zac Hanson, American singer-songwriter and drummer
- 1986 – Kenji Ebisawa, Japanese actor
- 1986 – Kara Lang, Canadian footballer
- 1986 – Ștefan Radu, Romanian footballer
- 1986 – Akihiro Sato, Japanese footballer
- 1987 – Tiki Gelana, Ethiopian runner
- 1987 – Donny Montell, Lithuanian singer-songwriter
- 1987 – Park Ha-sun, South Korean actress
- 1987 – Reen Yu, Taiwanese actress
- 1988 – Sarah Barrow, English diver
- 1988 – Parineeti Chopra, Indian actress
- 1988 – Elena Muhhina, Estonian figure skater
- 1988 – Aykut Demir, Turkish footballer
- 1989 – Marco Restrepo, American musician
- 1989 – Muhammad Wilkerson, American football player
- 1990 – Nicolás Francella, Argentine actor
- 1990 – Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
- 1992 – Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
- 1992 – 21 Savage, American hip-hop artist
- 1992 – Carrie Hope Fletcher, British singer
- 1993 – Charalambos Lykogiannis, Greek footballer
- 1995 – Saidy Janko, Swiss footballer
- 1996 – B.I, South Korean singer-songwriter, and dancer