WHAT HAPPENED ON 22. OCTOBER
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Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out). (22. October 1879)

The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust. (22. October 1883)

In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below. (22. October 1895)

Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression. (22. October 1907)

Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London. (22. October 1910)

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. (22. October 1923)

Toastmasters International is founded. (22. October 1924)

J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal, precipitating his death. (22. October 1926)

Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including a motor with onephase electricity (22. October 1927)

Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. (22. October 1928)

In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd. (22. October 1934)

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. (22. October 1941)

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. (22. October 1943)

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. (22. October 1946)

Arsène Wenger (Arsenal FC Manager and earlier soccer player) was borned in Strasbourg, France. (22. October 1949)

Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam. (22. October 1957)

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. (22. October 1962)

A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board. (22. October 1963)

Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor. (22. October 1964)

Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada. (22. October 1964)