Tuesday 22 October is the 296th day of the Gregorian calendar, 70 days left until the end of the year.
Saint of the day: Saint John Paul II
October Proverb
When beautiful October comes, take the wine out of the tub
It happened today
1913 – The Dawson disaster is the second bloodiest mining accident after the Monongah one in the history of the United States of America and of Italian emigration.
1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, the famous bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is killed by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy announces that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval blockade on the island
1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre wins the Nobel Prize for Literature, but refuses it
1966 – The Supremes become the first female band to have an album top the US charts (The Supremes A’ Go-Go)
1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 7 lands in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times
1970 – Austrian Nazi criminal Franz Stangl is sentenced to perpetual prison.
1972 – Vietnam War: the Easter Offensive ends while in Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese president Nguyễn Văn Thiệu meet to discuss the ceasefire proposal drawn up in Paris between the USA and North Vietnam. Thieu rejects the proposal and accuses the US of conspiring to undermine the stability of his regime
1975 – Leonard Matlovich, US Air Force sergeant and decorated Vietnam War veteran, is kicked out of the Army after appearing in uniform on the cover of Time magazine, under the headline “I am a homosexual”
1978 – The pontificate of Pope John Paul II begins
1999 – Maurice Papon, French politician, is imprisoned for war crimes
2004 – The popular science magazine Nature publishes the discovery of a new human species, Homo floresiensis, on the island of Flores, Indonesia
2008 – The Indian Space Agency launches its first uncrewed lunar mission with the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft
2009 – Death of Stefano Cucchi
Birthdays
Claudia Ruggeri – television personality known for playing the substitute teacher in the channel 5 show Avanti un’altro (22 October 1983)
Mirko Locatelli – Italian director (22 October 1974)
Shaggy – Orville Richard Burrel, known by the pseudonym Shaggy, Jamaican singer (October 22, 1968)
