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What Happened on October 22

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.

François Duvalier takes office
François Duvalier, also known as Papa Doc, became the President of Haiti.

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”.

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”.

First Person to Jump With a Parachute
French balloonist André-Jacques Garnerin jumped out of a balloon over Parc Monceau in Paris using a silk parachute that he made himself.

  • 1973 Ichiro Suzuki
    Japanese baseball player
  • 1949 Arsène Wenger
    French footballer, manager
  • 1870 Ivan Bunin
    Russian author, poet, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1844 Louis Riel
    Canadian politician
  • 1811 Franz Liszt
    Hungarian pianist, composer
  • 2002 Richard Helms
    American diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence
  • 1995 Kingsley Amis
    English author, poet, critic
  • 1954 Jibanananda Das
    Bengali poet
  • 1906 Paul Cézanne
    French painter
  • 741 Charles Martel
    Frankish military leader, politician

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