October 22: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

October 22nd marks the 295th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 296th in case of leap years). There are 70 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Libra. Famous birthdays on this day include Catherine Deneuve (1943), Deepak Chopra (1946) and Jeff Goldblum (1952).
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2018 China will open the longest sea bridge in the world, Hong Kong-Zhuhai Macau Bridge, after nine years of construction. The ceremony will take place in Hong Kong.
2017 Boko Haram insurgency. A suicide bomber injures five more people in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria. Police say that 13 civilians were also injured in separate attacks.
2016 Iraqi Civil War (2014-2017), Battle of Mosul (2016)-2017: At least 284 people are executed in Mosul by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (CNN),
2015 Syrian Civil War: According to the Associated Press, Kurds in Syria have established a new administration at Tal Abyad (a Sunni Arab town) which they took from ISIS in June 2017. (U.S. News and World Report). Russian military intervention in Syria Civil War: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that at least 12 people, including health-care workers were killed in an attack on a Sarmin field hospital, Idlib by Russian aircraft.
2014 Swedish submarine incidents: NATO intercepts Russian planes over the Baltic Sea, while Sweden continues its six-day search for a damaged Russian Navy submarine. While stating that Sweden's military operation is primarily focused on gathering intelligence about a foreign submarine suspected to be in its waters, Rear Admiral Anders Grenstad stated that it could be possible to use military force to bring it surface.
2013 Islamist insurgency: Nigerian troops kill 37 Boko Haram Islamist militants during air and ground attacks at their northeast base.
2012 After rocket fire from Gaza on southern Israel and mortar attacks on an IDF patrol close to the border, the Israeli air force struck a rocket-launching squad in northern Gaza Strip. Three people were reported to have been killed.
2011 North Korea has agreed to allow the United States to search for remains of American soldiers who died during the Korean War for the first time since 2006.
2010 The International Space Station has been continuously inhabited for 3641 days, surpassing the record for longest continuous human occupancy of space.
2009 Sweden's Lutheran Church is the first major church to allow same-sex marriages.
2008 Wachovia Corp reported a loss of US$23.9billion in its third quarter, an unprecedented quarterly deficit for a bank company during the global credit crisis.
2007 The USA and Mexico agree to send US$1.4 billion over three years to Mexico for drug traffickers fighting.
2006 In a National referendum in Panama, 77.8% of Panamanian voters approve the Panama Canal expansion plan.
2005 Tropical Storm Alpha forms in Atlantic Basin. The 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season ever recorded, with 22 named storms.
2004 Saskatchewan's Canadian Light Source synchrotron is now open for atomic research at Saskatoon.
2003 India: India launches peace initiative to normalize relations with Pakistan Talks are only possible if Islamabad ends its cross-border terrorist initiatives in Kashmir.
2002 25 Chechen rebels in ampndash take over the theatre "Nord-Ost" in Moscow and make the audience slaves.
2000 Shinichi Fujimura, a Japanese archeologist, is exposed by Mainichi Shinbun.
1999 Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
1997 2nd longest 9 inning World Series game (4:12) as Marlins and Indians were tied 7-7 going into the 9th, Mariners win 14-11
1996 New York Yankee Bernie Williams hits record tying 7th post season HR, as Yanks tie record of 6th straight post season road win (en route to 8)
1995 Swinging On a Star opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 97 performances
1994 Philadelphia, Here I Come closes at Criterion NYC after 52 performances
1993 Actor James Coburn (65) weds Paula Murad (37)
1992 Atlanta, becomes 1st US team to win a World Series game out of US
1991 General Motors announces nine-month fiscal loss of US$2.2 billion.
1989 Red Khmer occupies Pailin in Cambodia
1988 Elton John sells out Madison Square Garden for a record 26th time
1987 Cabaret opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 262 performances
1986 Into the Light opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 6 performances
1985 Bret Saberhagen gives Kansas City Royals their 1st World Series win
1984 Paul McCartney releases Give My Regards to Broad Street soundtrack
1983 Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
1982 Gene Mauch resigns as manager of Angels
1981 Start of 1st-class game at Newcastle, NSW vs. Queensland
1980 4th government of Martens forms in Belgium
1979 Walt Disney World welcomes its 100-millionth guest, Kurt Miller.
1978 King of Hearts opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 48 performances
1977 International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 and 2 launched into Earth orbit.
1976 Rick Barry (San Francisco), begins then longest NBA free throw streak of 60
1975 Me & Bessie opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 453 performances
1974 Yanks trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds
1973 Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon
1972 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA GAC Golf Classic
1970 Chilean army commander René Schneider is shot in Santiago the government declares a state of emergency. Schneider dies October 25.
1969 KAPN-AM in Santa Barbara CA changes call letters to KDB-AM
1968 Apollo 7 returns to Earth.
1967 Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA Carlsbad Jaycee Golf Open
1966 USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon
1964 EMI rejects audition by High Numbers, they go on to become The Who
1963 225,000 students boycott Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest.
1962 JFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba
1961 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights and Flemish language in Belgium
1960 Cassius Clay wins 1st battle as professional boxer
1959 Take Me Along opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 448 performances
1957 Conrad Adenauer re-elected chancellor of West-Germany
1956 France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella
1955 WWNY TV channel 7 in Carthage-Watertown, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1953 Laos gains full independence from France.
1951 Earthquake hits Formosa, 100 killed
1949 Emile Zatopek runs world record 10,000m (29:21.2)
1948 Egyptian flagship King Farouk sunk by Israel
1946 2 British ships sink near Albania
1944 World War II: Battle of Aachen: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies.
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.
1942 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland
1941 World War II: French resistance member Guy Moquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
1939 1st TV NFL game-Eagles vs. Dodgers
1938 Chester Carlson demonstrates 1st Xerox copying machine
1936 First commercial flight from mainland USA to Hawaii.
1935 18th PGA Championship: Johnny Revolta at Twin Hills Country Club - Oklahoma City
1934 In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
1933 Primo Carnera beats Paulin in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1932 Charles de Broqueville becomes Premier of Belgium
1930 1st concerto of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult
1929 French government of Briand falls
1928 China expels all Russian instructors and civil servants
1927 Nikola Tesla exposed his six (6) new inventions including motor with onephase electricity
1926 Student Wallace Whitehead repeatedly punches magician Harry Houdini in the abdomen, after asking if he had strong muscles, and receiving permission to punch him.
1924 Toastmasters International is founded.
1922 Lucerne Street in the Bronx named.
1913 Explosion at Dawson NM coal mine kills 263 mine workers
1910 Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
1907 Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum and Bailey circus
1906 3000 blacks demonstrate and riot in Philadelphia.
1904 Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship
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