Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 22

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  King Fernando of Portugal
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  Sam Houston
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  Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd
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  Hubert Pierlot
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  André-Jacques Garnerin's parachute
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  Cuban missiles
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  Edison's carbon filament light bulb
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  Montparnasse derailment
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  Bankers during the Panic of 1907
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  Royal Navy cutlasses
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  John Adams
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  Portrait of Caroline of Ansbach by Michael Dahl, c. 1730
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  Metropolitan Opera House in 1905

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
International Stuttering Awareness Day	high % of cn
feast day of [[Pope John Paul II|Saint John Template:Nowrap]] (Catholicism)	Refimprove section
1383 – King Ferdinand I died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, resulting in a period of civil war and anarchy.	Interregnum: refimprove; Ferdinand: refimprove
1730 – Construction of the Ladoga Canal linking the Neva and the Svir River, one of the first major canals constructed in Russia, was completed.	refimprove
1797 – Dropping from a hydrogen balloon at a height of approximately Template:Convert, André-Jacques Garnerin carried out the first descent using a frameless parachute.	Too much uncited
1844 – Millerites, including future members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, were greatly disappointed that Jesus did not return as predicted by American preacher William Miller.	Unreferenced sections
1879 – Thomas Edison performed a successful test using a carbon filament thread in an incandescent light bulb, which would become the most successful version of the product.	refimprove section
1883 – The Metropolitan Opera in New York City opened with a performance of French composer Charles Gounod's opera Faust.	refimprove/unreferenced sections
1884 – At the International Meridian Conference, the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, was adopted as the Universal Time meridian of longitude.	Conference: unreferenced section; UTC: appears on Feb 8
1934 – Pretty Boy Floyd, an American bank robber and alleged killer who was later romanticized by the media, was gunned down by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents near East Liverpool, Ohio.	refimprove
1962 – Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that Soviet nuclear weapons had been discovered in Cuba and that he had ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.	refimprove section
1964 – The French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre became the first Nobel Laureate to voluntarily decline the prize, saying that he did not wish to be "transformed" by such an award.	refimprove section
1999 – Vichy France official Maurice Papon was jailed for crimes against humanity committed during World Template:Nowrap.	unreferenced sections
2006 – An expansion project to double the Panama Canal's capacity was approved by Panamanian voters in a national referendum by a wide margin.	unreferenced section
2008 – India launched Chandrayaan-1, the country's first unmanned lunar mission.	refimprove section
2013 – The Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013 made the Australian Capital Territory the nation's first jurisdiction to legalise same-sex marriage, although the High Court struck the act down two months later.	cn tags
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque |b|1783|	[citation needed] x9
Edward Carson|d|1935|	Too much uncited

Eligible

• 906 – Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh, an Abbasid military officer of Turkic origin, led a raid against the Byzantine Empire, taking at least 4,000 captives.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1727 – [[George II of Great Britain|Template:Nowrap]] and Caroline of Ansbach (pictured) were crowned king and queen of Great Britain in Westminster Abbey.
• 1740 – A two-week massacre of ethnic Chinese in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, came to an end with at least 10,000 people killed.
• 1877 – Scotland's worst mining accident occurred when an explosion at a colliery in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, killed 207 miners.
• 1895 – At Gare Montparnasse in Paris, an express train derailed after overrunning the buffer stop and crashed through the station wall, with the locomotive landing on the street below.
• 1907 – A bank run forced New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations, triggering the Panic of 1907 (pictured).
• 1924 – The educational non-profit organization Toastmasters International was founded at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California.
• 1936 – The Royal Navy cutlass was withdrawn from combat service.
• 1936 – Dod Orsborne, captain of the Girl Pat, was convicted of its theft and imprisoned, having caused a media sensation when it went missing.
• 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.
• 1987 – John Adams' (pictured) opera Nixon in China premiered.
• 2014 – In Ottawa, Canada, the downtown core was placed on lockdown after a series of shootings at Parliament Hill.
• 2015 – A sword-wielding man attacked students and teachers at a high school in Trollhättan, killing three people in Sweden's deadliest school attack.

• Born/died: | Qian Weijun|b|955| Johann Reinhold Forster|b|1729| Charles Scott|d|1813| James Strachan-Davidson |b|1843| Sahle Selassie |d|1847| George Coulthard|d|1883| César Luis Menotti|b|1938| Deepak Chopra|b|1946| Hannah Mitchell|d|1956| Joseph Cahill|d|1959| Oona King|b|1967| Javier Milei|b|1970|

Notes

• Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse appears on October 12 so André-Jacques Garnerin should not appear in the same year.

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• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1964 – The first volume of Ian Fleming's children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was published posthumously.
• 2005 – Bellview Airlines Flight 210 crashed in Ogun State, Nigeria, killing all 117 people on board.