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22 October, 2006
A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama. Michael Schumacher drives his last Formula 1 Race. The very same day the Spaniard Fernando Alonso wins the 2006 Formula 1 World Championship, becoming the 8th and youngest driver to win it twice in a row to emulate the achievements of Mika Häkkinen, Michael Schumacher and five other drivers.
22 October, 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. Crash of Bellview Airlines Flight 210 in Nigeria kills all 117 on board. The first phase of Transantiago, the new public transport system of Santiago de Chile is implemented.
22 October, 1999
Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
22 October, 1991
Dimitrios Arhondonis, metropolitan of Chalcedon elected 270th Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch as Patriarch Bartholomew I of the Orthodox church.
22 October, 1987
John Adamss opera Nixon in China debuts at the Houston Grand Opera in Houston, Texas. The pinnacle rock "Gendarme" falls at Seneca Rocks.
22 October, 1986
U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law. WNBC traffic reporter Jane Dornacker is killed when the helicopter she is riding in stalls and crashes into the Hudson River.
22 October, 1983
Two correctional officers are killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspired the Supermax model of prisons.
22 October, 1981
The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August. The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins. The TGV railway service Paris-Lyon is inaugurated.
22 October, 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.
22 October, 1972
Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris. Thieu rejects the proposal and accused the United States of conspiring to undermine his regime
22 October, 1970
Tunku Abdul Rahman resign from Prime Minister of Malaysia.
22 October, 1968
Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
22 October, 1966
The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A Go-Go).
22 October, 1965
End of the Second Kashmir War between India and Pakistan.
22 October, 1964
Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honour. Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
22 October, 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy announces that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
22 October, 1960
Independence of Mali from France.
22 October, 1957
Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
22 October, 1956
A concrete girder weighing 200 tons kills 48 in Karachi, Pakistan.
22 October, 1953
Laos gains independence from France.
22 October, 1949
Soviet Union detonates its first nuclear bomb.
22 October, 1946
Forty four British sailors die when two British warships hit mines off the coast of Albania.
22 October, 1943
World War II: Kassel: RAF conducts an air raid on the city of 236,000 people, killing 10,000, rendering 150,000 homeless. Second firestorm raid in Germany
22 October, 1934
In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.
22 October, 1926
J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
22 October, 1924
Toastmasters International is founded.
22 October, 1910
Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
22 October, 1907
Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
22 October, 1895
In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
22 October, 1883
The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounods Faust (opera).
22 October, 1878
The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
22 October, 1877
The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who were unable to support themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the Poor House.
22 October, 1875
First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
22 October, 1867
Foundation of the National University of Colombia.
22 October, 1866
Paraguay: Battle of Curupaytí against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
22 October, 1844
The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipated the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
22 October, 1836
Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
22 October, 1797
One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
22 October, 1784
Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
22 October, 1746
The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
22 October, 1692
Last hanging for witchcraft in the United States.
22 October, 1575
Foundation of Aguascalientes.
22 October, 1383
The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: A period of civil war and disorder began when King Fernando died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne.
22 October, 794
Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
22 October, 362
The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.

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