22 October

Events

1575 - Foondin o the ceety o Aguascalientes, in the present-day state o the same name in Central Mexico.^[1]
1707 - A Ryal Navy ship strands o the Isles o Scilly naur Cornwall, killin ower 1,600 fowk.
1784 - Roushie foonds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
1836 - Sam Houston becomes Preses o the Republic o Texas.
1859 - Spain declares war on Morocco.
1877 - A minin disaster in Blantyre, Sooth Lanrikshire, Scotland, kills 215 fowk.
1883 - The Metropolitan Opera Hoose in New York Ceety opens.
1895 - A train crashes through the windae o the Montparnasse Station in Paris.
1927 - Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions.
1943 - Warld War II: A Ryal Air Force air raid on Kassel, Hesse, Germany, kills 10,000 fowk.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Creesis stairts.
1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre rejects the Nobel Prize in Leeteratur.
1978 - Inauguration o Pape John Paul II.
2005 - Tropical Storm Alpha forms, breakin the record for the nummer o storms in a single North Atlantic Hurricane season.
2005 - A Bellview Airlines Boeing 737 airliner crashes shortly efter tak-aff frae Lagos, Nigerie, killin 111 fowk.
2006 - A referendum in Panama supports the expansion o the Panama Canal.
2008 - Indie launches an unmanned Muin mission, Chandrayaan 1.
2010 - Nuclear-powered submarine HMS Astute runs agroond naur Skye.
2014 - 2014 attacks at Pairlament Hill, Ottawa, Canadae.
2015 - The Hoose o Commons o the Unitit Kinrick votes bi a majority for the "Inglis Votes for Inglis Laws" proposal, strippin MPs frae Scotland, Wales an Northren Ireland o some votin richts.
2017 - Shinzo Abe's Leeberal Democratic Pairty wins early pairlamentary elections in Japan.
2019 - The deadline for the re-instatin o the Northren Ireland Assembly passes, meanin that the abortion an semme-sex mairiage laws decidit in Lunnon are due tae become legal there.
2019 - The enthronement ceremony o Emperor Naruhito o Japan taks place.

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Births

1689 - Keeng John V o Portugal (d. 1750)
1781 - Louis Joseph, Dauphin o Fraunce (d. 1789)
1811 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian componer (d. 1886)
1836 - Mungo Park, Scots gowfer (d. 1904)
1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)
1870 - Ivan Bunin, Roushie writer (d. 1953)
1881 - Clinton Davisson, American pheesicist (d. 1958)
1913 - Bao Dai, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1997)
1915 - Yitzhak Shamir, 7t Prime meenister o Israel (d. 2012)
1917 - Joan Fontaine, Japan-born Inglis-American actress (d. 2013)
1919 - Doris Lessing, Inglis writer (d. 2013)
1923 - Bert Trautmann, German fitbawer (d. 2013)
1929 - Lev Yashin, Roushie fitbawer (d. 1990)
1931 - Ann Rule, American writer (d. 2015)
1938 - Alan Gilzean, Scots fitbawer (d. 2018)
1938 - Derek Jacobi, Inglis actor
1938 - Christopher Lloyd, American actor
1943 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress^[2]
1949 - Arsène Wenger, French fitbawer an manager
1952 - Jeff Goldblum, American actor
1964 - Craig Levein, Scots fitbawer an manager
1965 - A. L. Kennedy, Scots writer
1968 - Shaggy, Jamaican-American muisicker, sangster an DJ
1973 - Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese basebaw player
1983 - Plan B, Inglis sangster
1988 - Sharon Rooney, Scots actress
1990 - Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
1990 - Paul McGinn, Scots fitbawer
1998 - Harry Souttar, Scots-Australie fitbawer

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Daiths

1839 - George Campbell, 6t Duke o Argyll, Scots politeecian (b. 1768)
1871 - Roderick Murchison, Scots geologist (b. 1792)
1902 - John Faed, Scots penter (b. 1819)
1906 - Paul Cézanne, French penter (b. 1839)
1915 - Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet, Scots pheesicist (b. 1831)
1928 - Andrew Fisher, Scots-born 5t Prime Meenister o Australie (b. 1862)
1958 - Thomas Archibald Sprague, Scots botanist (b. 1877)
1995 - Kingsley Amis, Inglis writer (b. 1922)

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