22 October
Notable Births
Brian Branch
b. 2001
American football player (born 2001)
Jo Yuri
b. 2001
South Korean singer and actress (born 2001)
Baby Keem
b. 2000
American rapper and record producer (born 2000)
Geraldo Perdomo
b. 1999
Dominican baseball player (born 1999)
B.I (rapper)
b. 1996
South Korean rapper (born 1996)
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo
b. 1996
Norwegian cross-country skier (born 1996)
Corbin Burnes
b. 1994
American baseball player (born 1994)
Charalampos Lykogiannis
b. 1993
Greek footballer (born 1993)
David Savard
b. 1990
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1990)
JPEGMafia
b. 1989
American rapper, singer, song writter, and record producer (born 1989)
Muhammad Wilkerson
b. 1989
American football player (born 1989)
Sarah Barrow
b. 1988
British diver
Parineeti Chopra
b. 1988
Indian actress (born 1988)
Tiki Gelana
b. 1987
Ethiopian long-distance runner (born 1987)
Donny Montell
b. 1987
Lithuanian singer-songwriter (born 1987)
Park Ha-sun
b. 1987
South Korean actress (born 1987)
Chancellor (musician)
b. 1986
American singer-songwriter and record producer
Kyle Gallner
b. 1986
American actor (born 1986)
Kara Lang
b. 1986
Canadian soccer player (born 1986)
Ștefan Radu
b. 1986
Romanian footballer (born 1986)
Notable Deaths
Richard A. Cash
d. 2024
American global health researcher (1941–2024)
Grizzly 399
d. 2024
American grizzly bear (1996–2024)
Gustavo Gutiérrez
d. 2024
Peruvian theologian (1928–2024)
Lynda Obst
d. 2024
American film producer and author (1950–2024)
Fernando Valenzuela
d. 2024
Mexican baseball player (1960–2024)
Peter Scolari
d. 2021
American actor (1955–2021)
George Young (rock musician)
d. 2017
Australian rock musician (1946–2017)
Paul J. Weitz
d. 2017
American astronaut (1932–2017)
Steve Dillon
d. 2016
British comic artist (1962–2016)
Sheri S. Tepper
d. 2016
American science fiction, horror and mystery novelist (1929–2016)
Willem Aantjes
d. 2015
Dutch politician (1923–2015)
Murphy Anderson
d. 2015
American comics artist (1926–2015)
Joshua Wheeler
d. 2015
United States Army soldier (1975–2015)
Ashok Kumar (cinematographer)
d. 2014
Indian cinematographer (c. 1941–2014)
John Postgate (microbiologist)
d. 2014
English microbiologist
Lajos Für
d. 2013
Hungarian politician and historian
James Robinson Risner
d. 2013
US Air Force general (1925–2013)
Betty Binns Fletcher
d. 2012
American judge (1923–2012)
Mike Morris (TV presenter)
d. 2012
British television anchor (1946–2012)
Gabrielle Roth
d. 2012
American musician and dancer (1941–2012)
On This Day in History
All 49 ›2019
Same-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being restored.
Same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland
2014
Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa
2013
The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013.
Australian Capital Territory
2012
Cyclist Lance Armstrong is formally stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after being charged for doping.
Lance Armstrong
2008
India launches its first uncrewed lunar probe mission Chandrayaan-1.
Exploration of the Moon
2007
A raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos, with all except one dying in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and ten damaged.
Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base
2006
A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a national referendum.
Panama Canal expansion project
2005
Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season until surpassed by the 2020 season.
Tropical Storm Alpha
2005
Bellview Airlines Flight 210 crashes in Nigeria, killing all 117 people on board.
Bellview Airlines Flight 210
1999
Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
Maurice Papon
1997
Danish fugitive Steen Christensen kills two police officers, Chief Constable Eero Holsti and Senior Constable Antero Palo, in Ullanlinna, Helsinki, Finland during his prison escape.
Steen Christensen
1992
Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-52 to deploy the LAGEOS-2 satellite and microgravity experiments.
Space Shuttle Columbia
1987
John Adams' opera Nixon in China premiered at the Houston Grand Opera.
John Adams (composer)
1983
Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
Marion, Illinois
1981
The US Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) for its strike the previous August.
Federal Labor Relations Authority
1975
The Soviet uncrewed space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
Venera 9
1964
Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he does not accept the prize.
Jean-Paul Sartre
1963
A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
BAC One-Eleven
1962
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.
Cuban Missile Crisis
1946
Over twenty-two hundred engineers and technicians from eastern Germany are forced to relocate to the Soviet Union, along with their families and equipment.
Operation Osoaviakhim