Tukuk-OS📅 October 22
22 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on October 22? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2015 — A sword-wielding man attacked students and teachers at a high school in Trollhättan, killing three people in Sweden's deadliest school attack.
- 2014 — In Ottawa, Canada, the downtown core was placed on lockdown after a series of shootings at Parliament Hill.
- 2005 — Bellview Airlines Flight 210 crashed in Ogun State, Nigeria, killing all 117 people on board.
- 1989 — TAN-SAHSA Flight 414 crashed in approach to Toncontín International Airport, killing 131 out of 146 people onboard.
- 1987 — John Adams' (pictured) opera Nixon in China premiered.
- 1966 — With their album The Supremes A' Go-Go, the Supremes became the first all-female group to reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart.
- 1964 — The first volume of Ian Fleming's children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was published posthumously.
- 1945 — Workers at the Cigar Factory in Charleston, South Carolina, began a labor strike against the American Tobacco Company that lasted more than five months.
Cigar FactoryCharleston, South Carolina1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike
- 1940 — After evading Vichy French and Francoist Spanish authorities, Belgian prime minister Hubert Pierlot arrived in London, marking the beginning of the Belgian government in exile.
- 1936 — The Royal Navy cutlass was withdrawn from combat service.
- 1936 — Dod Orsborne, captain of the fishing trawler Girl Pat, was convicted of its theft and imprisoned, having caused a media sensation when it went missing.
- 1924 — The educational non-profit organization Toastmasters International was founded at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California.
- 1907 — A bank run forced New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations, triggering the Panic of 1907 (pictured).
- 1895 — At Gare Montparnasse in Paris, an express train derailed after overrunning the buffer stop and crashed through the station wall (pictured).
- 1877 — Scotland's worst mining accident occurred when an explosion at a colliery in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, killed 207 miners.
Blantyre mining disasterCoal miningBlantyre, South Lanarkshire
- 1740 — A two-week massacre of ethnic Chinese in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, came to an end with at least 10,000 people killed.
- 1727 — George II and Caroline of Ansbach (pictured) were crowned king and queen of Great Britain in Westminster Abbey.
George II of Great BritainCaroline of AnsbachCoronation of George II and Caroline
- 1724 — J. S. Bach led the first performance of the chorale cantata Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Adorn yourself, O dear soul), based on the communion hymn of the same name, in Leipzig.
Johann Sebastian BachChorale cantata cycleSchmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 180
- 1707 — In one of the worst maritime disasters in the history of the British Isles, at least 1,400 sailors on four Royal Navy ships were lost in stormy weather (pictured) off the Isles of Scilly.
List of maritime disastersRoyal NavyScilly naval disaster of 1707
- 1633 — At the Battle of Liaoluo Bay Ming Chinese naval forces defeated a Dutch East India Company fleet in the Taiwan Strait, the largest naval encounter between Chinese and European forces before the First Opium War more than two hundred years later.
- 906 — Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh, an Abbasid military officer of Turkic origin, led a raid against the Byzantine Empire, taking at least 4,000 captives.
- -2137 — A solar eclipse occurred over China, one of the earliest recorded eclipses in history.
Births
- 2001 — Brian Branch, American football player
- 2001 — Jo Yu-ri, South Korean singer and actress
- 2000 — Baby Keem, American rapper and record producer
- 1999 — Geraldo Perdomo, Dominican baseball player
- 1998 — Roddy Ricch, American rapper
- 1997 — Jan Köstering, German politician
- 1996 — B.I, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter and producer
- 1996 — Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, Norwegian ski runner
- 1994 — Corbin Burnes, American baseball player
- 1993 — Charalambos Lykogiannis, Greek footballer
- 1992 — 21 Savage, British-American rapper
- 1992 — Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
Deaths
- 2025 — David Ball, English electronic musician (born 1959)
- 2024 — Richard A. Cash, American global health researcher (born 1941)
- 2024 — Grizzly 399, American grizzly bear (born 1996)
- 2024 — Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian philosopher, theologian and priest (born 1928)
- 2024 — Lynda Obst, American film producer and author (born 1950)
- 2024 — Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (born 1960)
- 2021 — Peter Scolari, American actor (born 1955)
- 2017 — George Young, Australian musician, songwriter and record producer (born 1946)
- 2017 — Paul Weitz, American astronaut (born 1932)
- 2016 — Steve Dillon, British comic book artist (born 1962)
- 2016 — Sheri S. Tepper, American writer (born 1929)
- 2015 — Willem Aantjes, Dutch civil servant and politician (born 1923)
Observances & holidays
- Christian feast day: Abercius of Hieropolis
- Christian feast day: Cordula of Cologne
- Christian feast day: Donatus of Fiesole
- Christian feast day: Marcus of Jerusalem
- Christian feast day: Mellonius
- Christian feast day: Nunilo and Alodia
- Christian feast day: Pope John Paul II
- Christian feast day: October 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- International Stuttering Awareness Day
- Jidai Matsuri (Kyoto, Japan)
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