It happened on this day, October 22
Events:
1797 – The first successful parachute jump attempt was made by André Jacques Garnorin using an aerial balloon.
1859 – Start of Spanish intervention in Morocco.
1873 – An alliance is concluded between the German, Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires.
1907 – Announcement of the creation of the Egyptian National Party led by Mustafa Kamel.
1940 – Italy declares war on Greece during World War II.
1956 – A Moroccan plane carrying the leaders of the Algerian revolution, Ahmed Ben Bella, and five of his companions, is hijacked.
1962 – U.S. President John Kennedy announces in a televised speech the imposition of a naval and air blockade on Cuba after the Soviet Union deployed nuclear missiles there, in what became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis .
1964 – French writer Jean-Paul Sartre refuses to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1989 Lebanese representatives ratify the Taif agreement.
1990 – Britain's Royal Geographical Society reveals that the ecologically devastated area around the Aral Sea represents the world's worst environmental disaster, with scientists predicting the sea will disappear within 25 years.
2001 – Israel assassinates the commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades in Nablus, Ayman Halawa, after bombing the car in which he was traveling.
2008 Kuwaiti Ambassador to Iraq Ali Al-Mumen presents his credentials to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, becoming the first Kuwaiti ambassador to Iraq since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990.
2015 – A young man attacked a school in the Swedish town of Trollhätten, killing two people and injuring others, then he was killed during an attempted arrest.
💥 US and Kurdish forces carried out an airdrop on an ISIS detention center near Hawija, freeing around 70 detainees and killing one US soldier.
2017 – Japanese authorities evacuate more than 380,000 people from their homes in anticipation of Hurricane Lan.
2018 – A series of parcel bombs targeting opponents of US President Donald Trump were discovered.
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Births:
1870 – Ivan Bunin, Russian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933
1915 – Yitzhak Shamir, seventh Prime Minister of Israel.
1953 – Fatima Al-Tabei, Egyptian actress.
1958 – Hussein Al-Qallaf, Kuwaiti politician.
1966 – Suhair Ayad, Iraqi actress.
1975 – Michel Salgado, Spanish footballer.
1979 – Haifa Hussein, Bahraini actress.
1980 – Fatima Al-Tabbakh, Kuwaiti presenter and actress.
1991 – Issa Mandi, Algerian footballer.
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Death:
1906 – Paul Cézanne, French painter.
1986 – Albert Nagerabult, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1937.
2001 – Ayman Halawa, Palestinian mujahid and commander of the Al-Qassam brigades in Nablus.
2007 – Eve Curie, French writer.
2008 – Barak Al-Marzouq, Chairman of the Kuwait Audit Office.
2011 – Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince, First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
2012 – Afifa Iskandar, Iraqi singer.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⏪ World Stuttering Awareness Day.
