Here are some notable moments from October 22 throughout history:
🕰️ Events
- In 1797, French aeronaut André‑Jacques Garnerin made the first recorded parachute jump — leaping from a hydrogen balloon above Paris. (Wikipedia)
- In 1884, the International Meridian Conference adopted the line through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in England as the world’s prime meridian (0° longitude). (Wikipedia)
- In 1962, US President John F. Kennedy announced that Soviet missile bases were under construction in Cuba and declared a naval “quarantine” of offensive military shipments — a key moment in the Cuban Missile Crisis. (Encyclopedia Britannica)
- In 1957, François Duvalier (also known as “Papa Doc”) assumed the presidency of Haiti. (Time and Date)
🎂 Births
- Franz Liszt, the Hungarian composer & virtuoso pianist, was born on October 22, 1811. (Playback.fm)
- George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and Nobel laureate, was born October 22, 1903. (Today In Science History)
❌ Deaths
- On October 22, 1906, the French painter Paul Cézanne passed away. (On This Day)
- On this date in 1934, notorious US bank‐robber Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd was shot and killed by federal agents near East Liverpool, Ohio. (HISTORY)
