What Happened On This Day ? October 22
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2008
India Launches its First Lunar Mission
The unmanned space probe called Chandrayaan-1 was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation. The probe successfully landed on the Moon on November 14, 2008, making India the 5th country to land a spacecraft on the Moon.
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1957
Francois Duvalier takes office
Francois Duvalier, also known as Papa Doc, became the President of Haiti.
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1936
End of the Long March in China
The Long March, a 6000-mile journey made by members of the Red Army led by Mao Zedong came to an end. The March was undertaken as a way to escape the Nationalist army of Chiang Kai-shek. The end of the March is also known in China as the “union of the three armies”.
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1884
International Meridian Conference Adopts Greenwich, England as initial longitudinal meridian
26 countries participated in the conference which was held in Washington, D.C. In addition to making the meridian passing through the Observatory of Greenwich as the initial meridian for longitude or 0 degree longitude, the conference also defined a universal day which would “begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight at the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian; and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours”.
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1797
First Person to Jump With a Parachute
French balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin jumped out of a balloon over Parc Monceau in Paris using a silk parachute that he made himself.
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1973
Ichiro Suzuki
Japanese baseball player
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1949
Arsene Wenger
French footballer, manager
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1870
Ivan Bunin
Russian author, poet, Nobel Prize laureate
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1844
Louis Riel
Canadian politician
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1811
Franz Liszt
Hungarian pianist, composer
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2002
Richard Helms
American diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence
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1995
Kingsley Amis
English author, poet, critic
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1954
Jibanananda Das
Bengali poet
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1906
Paul Cezanne
French painter
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741
Charles Martel
Frankish military leader, politician