October 22 in history — What Happened Today in History

Millon Air Flight 406 crashes after takeoff from Eloy Alfaro International Airport in Manta, Ecuador, killing 34 people.

Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-52 to deploy the LAGEOS-2 satellite and microgravity experiments.

John Adams' opera Nixon in China premiered at the Houston Grand Opera.

Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.

The US Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) for its strike the previous August.

The Soviet uncrewed space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.

Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he does not accept the prize.

A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.

Cuban Missile Crisis: President 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.

The first Kashmir war begins after Pakistani forces invade Kashmir, allegedly to suppress a tribal rebellion.

Over twenty-two hundred engineers and technicians from eastern Germany are forced to relocate to the Soviet Union, along with their families and equipment.

World War II: In the second firestorm raid on Germany, the British Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.

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.

Dod Orsborne, captain of the Girl Pat is convicted of its theft and imprisoned, having caused a media sensation when it went missing.

In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill the notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.

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.

Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.

A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.

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.

The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.

The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Charles Gounod's Faust.

Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb; the bulb lasted 131⁄2 hours before burning out.

The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.

A plebiscite ratifies the annexation of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, which had occurred three days before on October 19.

Spain declares war on Morocco.

The Millerites (followers of Baptist preacher William Miller) anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day becomes known as the Great Disappointment.

Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.

André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump, from 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) above Paris.

Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor

David Savard, Canadian ice hockey player

JPEGMafia, American rapper and singer

Muhammad Wilkerson, American football player

Sarah Barrow, English diver

Parineeti Chopra, Indian actress

Corey Hawkins, American actor

Tiki Gelana, Ethiopian runner

Donny Montell, Lithuanian singer-songwriter

Park Ha-sun, South Korean actress

Chancellor, South Korean-American musician

Kyle Gallner, American actor

Kara Lang, Canadian soccer player

Çetin Altan, Turkish journalist and politician (born 1927)

Murphy Anderson, American illustrator (born 1926)

Arnold Klein, American dermatologist and author (born 1945)

Joshua Wheeler, American sergeant (born 1975)

George Francis, English footballer and soldier (born 1934)

John-Roger Hinkins, American religious leader and author (born 1934)

Ashok Kumar, Indian director and cinematographer (born 1941)

John Postgate, English microbiologist, author, and academic (born 1922)

Marylou Dawes, Canadian pianist and educator (born 1933)

Lajos Für, Hungarian historian and politician, Minister of Defence of Hungary (born 1930)

William Harrison, American author and screenwriter (born 1933)

James Robinson Risner, American general and pilot (born 1925)

Betty Binns Fletcher, American lawyer and judge (born 1923)