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==Events== * 4004 BC – The world was created at approximately six o'clock in the evening, according to the Ussher chronology. * 362 – The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire. * 451 – The Council of Chalcedon adopts the Chalcedonian Creed regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus Christ. * 794 – Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto). *1383 – The 1383–85 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder. *1575 – Foundation of Aguascalientes. *1633 – Battle of Liaoluo Bay: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company. *1707 – Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown. *1730 – Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed. *1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter. *1777 – American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank. *1784 – Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska. *1790 – Warriors of the Miami people under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War. *1797 – André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris. *1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas. *1844 – The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment. *1859 – Spain declares war on Morocco. *1866 – A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, occurred three days before, on October 19. *1875 – First telegraphic connection in Argentina. *1877 – The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. *1878 – The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton. *1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out). *1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's ''Faust''. *1884 – Greenwich, in London, England, is adopted as Universal Time meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference. *1895 – In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling to the road below. *1907 – Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression. *1910 – Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London. *1923 – The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic. *1924 – Toastmasters International is founded. *1926 – J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal, precipitating his death. *1927 – Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including a motor with onephase electricity *1928 – Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. *1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd. *1941 – World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer. *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. *1946 – Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim takes place, recruiting of thousands of military-related technical specialists from the Soviet occupation zone of post-World-War-II Germany for employment in the Soviet Union. *1957 – Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam. *1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. 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. *1963 – A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board. *1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but turns down the honor. * 1964 – Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official flag of Canada. *1966 – The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (''The Supremes A' Go-Go''). * 1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 12. *1968 – Apollo program: ''Apollo 7'' safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times. *1972 – Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris. *1973 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 338 calling for ceasefire of Yom Kippur War is adopted. *1975 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus. *1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada. *1978 – Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II. *1981 – The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August. *1983 – Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons. *1989 – 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling is kidnapped by a masked gunman as he rode his bike near his home in St. Joseph, Minnesota. *1999 – Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity. *2001 – ''Grand Theft Auto III'' was released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games as well as spurring controversy around violence in video games. *2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms. *2006 – A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama. *2007 – Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one died in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged. *2008 – India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1. *2013 – The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013 *2014 – Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa, Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people. *2015 – A teacher and a student are killed, and 2 students injured, in an attack at a high school in Trollhättan, Sweden. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「October 22」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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