Historical Events on October 22.

1. 1633, 22nd October: Battle of Leolulu Bay: The Ming Dynasty defeated the Dutch East India Company.

2. 1797, 22nd October: Andre Jacques Garnerin became the first man to land on a parachute at an altitude of 1,000 meters above a balloon.

3. 1927, 22nd October: Nikola Tesla invented six new inventions, including the single-phase electric.

4. 1938, 22nd October: Chester Carlson created the world’s first Xerox machine.

5. 1962, 22nd October: India’s largest multipurpose river valley project ‘Bhakra Nangal’ dedicated to the nation.

6. 1964, 22nd October: French writer, poet, and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre won the Nobel Prize but rejected it.

7. 1994, 22nd October: 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.

8. 2001, 22nd October: Grand Theft Auto 3 video game was released.

9. 2008, 22nd October: India launched the first unmanned Chandrayaan-1.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on October 22.

1. 1689: King John V of Portugal.

2. 1900: Ashfaqullah Khan, an Indian freedom fighter.

3. 1928: Jayanta Mahapatra, a major Indian English poet. He is the first Indian poet to win the Sahitya Akademi award for English poetry. 

4. 1935: D. Y. Patil, Indian educator, politician, and governor of former governor of Bihar.

5. 1937: Kader Khan, an Indian film actor, screenwriter, comedian, and director.

6. 1942: Raghuveer Singh, an internationally renowned photographer.

7. 1947: Deepak Chopra, an American doctor, and writer of Indian descent.

8. 1952: A. S. Kiran Kumar, an Indian space scientist and former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation

9. 1964: Amit Shah, an Indian politician currently serving as the Minister of Home Affairs.

10. 1988: Parineeti Chopra, Indian actress.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on October 22.

1. 1933: Vithalbhai Patel, an Indian legislator and political leader, co-founder of the Swaraj Party and elder brother of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

2. 1954: Jibanananda Das, an Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist.

3. 1964: Sir Khwaja Nazimuddin, a Bengali conservative politician and one of the leading founding fathers of Pakistan. Former Prime Minister of Pakistan.

4. 1975: Arnold Toynbee, a British historian.

5. 1978: Narayan Sitaram Phadke, an Indian writer and orator.

6. 1982: Savitri Devi Mukherji, an English-Greek-French proponent of Nazism.

7. 1991: G. M. Sohoni, a supporter of the Dehdan (autopsy) movement and founder of the Dehdan (autopsy) support board in India.

8. 1998: Ajit, Indian-Hindi film actor.

9. 2000: Ashok Motilal Firodia, chief functionary of Ahmednagar Education Society, social activist, and industrialist from India.

10. 2007: Ève Curie, a French and American writer, journalist, and pianist. Daughter of Marie Curie.

11. 2012: Russell Charles Means, an Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native Americans.

22-October-1680

Rana Rajsingh, king of Mewad, died.

22-October-1764

The Battle of Buxar was fought between armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal; the Nawab of Awadh; and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and British East India Company led by Hector Munro.

22-October-1796

Sawai Madhav Rao Peshwa II committed suicide by jumping from the terrace.

22-October-1873

Swami Rama Tirtha, great social reformer and poet, was born at Murariwala village of Gujranwala district. He lectured throughout Japan and America spreading "practical Vedanta".

22-October-1908

John Sutton, actor (Tower of London, Return of Fly), was born in Rawalpindi, India.

22-October-1912

Gandhiji accompanied Gokhale on tour of South Africa, Laurenco Marques, Mozambique and Zanzibar. He gave up European dress and milk and restricted himself to diet of fresh and dried fruits.

22-October-1913

Harumal Sadarangani, famous Sindhi writer, was born at Sind, Pakistan.

22-October-1929

Air Mail Series Stamps were issued. These stamps were of denominations of 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 12 annas.

22-October-1933

Vithalbhai Patel, great freedom fighter, social worker, leader, politician, President of the Central Assembly, lawyer and member of parliament, died in Geneva.

22-October-1937

Gandhiji presided over the educational conference at Wardha and outlined his scheme of education through basic crafts.

22-October-1947

There were bound to be difficulties in consolidating the loosely federated Indian provinces, princely states, etc. into one homogeneous whole state. Kashmir, after initial dithering, acceded to India voluntarily and by popular consent, then, was invaded by Pakistani tribesmen with the support of the Pakistani government.

22-October-1962

Bakhra-Nangal Dam, a multipurpose river valley project, was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

22-October-1983

The Union government reduces the upper age limit for the Civil Services Examination from 28 years to 26 years.

22-October-1997

Faced with unprecedented Presidential rebuff, a divided U.F. Government reversed decision on invoking Article 356 in Uttar Pradesh. Kalyan Singh government survived.

22-October-1997

Indian veterans take winning 3-0 lead against Pakistan in the five-match cricket series.

22-October-1999

Balayogi is elected as Speaker of the Lok Sabha for second consecutive term.

22-October-1999

The Prime Minister warns of more 'hard decisions'.

22-October-2000

The Supreme Court, in a significant order, erases Karnataka High Court judgement discharging former Chief Minister S. Bangarappa and his then private secretary R. Suribabu in a corruption case.