Historical Events - on October 22

1633 : Battle of Leolulu Bay: The Ming Dynasty defeated the Dutch East India Company.

1797 : Andre Jacques Garnerin became the first man to land on a parachute at an altitude of 1,000 meters above a balloon.

1927 : Nikola Tesla invented six new inventions, including the single-phase electric.

1938 : Chester Carlson created the world’s first Xerox machine.

1962 : India’s largest multipurpose river valley project ‘Bhakra Nangal’ dedicated to the nation.

1964 : French writer, poet, and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre won the Nobel Prize but rejected it.

1994 : Indian industrialist Navinbhai C. Dave was awarded the Queen of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth’s Coat of Arms Award for her work in industry and education.

2001 : Grand Theft Auto 3 video game was released.

2008 : India launched the first unmanned Chandrayaan-1.

 

Famous Birthdays – October 22

1689: King John V of Portugal.

1900: Ashfaqullah Khan, an Indian freedom fighter.

1928: Jayanta Mahapatra, a major Indian English poet. He is the first Indian poet to win the Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry. 

1935: D. Y. Patil, Indian educator, politician, and governor of former governor of Bihar.

1937: Kader Khan, an Indian film actor, screenwriter, comedian, and director.

1942: Raghuveer Singh, an internationally renowned photographer.

1947: Deepak Chopra, an American doctor, and writer of Indian descent.

1952: A. S. Kiran Kumar, an Indian space scientist and former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation

1964: Amit Shah, an Indian politician currently serving as the Minister of Home Affairs.

1988: Parineeti Chopra, Indian actress.

 

Death Anniversaries – October 22

1933: Vithalbhai Patel, an Indian legislator and political leader, co-founder of the Swaraj Party and elder brother of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

1954: Jibanananda Das, an Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist.

1964: Sir Khwaja Nazimuddin, a Bengali conservative politician and one of the leading founding fathers of Pakistan. Former Prime Minister of Pakistan.

1975: Arnold Toynbee, a British historian.

1978: Narayan Sitaram Phadke, an Indian writer and orator.

1982: Savitri Devi Mukherji, an English-Greek-French proponent of Nazism.

1991: G. M. Sohoni, a supporter of the Dehdan (autopsy) movement and founder of the Dehdan (autopsy) support board in India.

1998: Ajit, Indian-Hindi film actor.

2000: Ashok Motilal Firodia, chief functionary of Ahmednagar Education Society, social activist, and industrialist from India.

2007: Ève Curie, a French and American writer, journalist, and pianist. Daughter of Marie Curie.

2012: Russell Charles Means, an Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native Americans.