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 +[[Image:Train wreck at Montparnasse 1895.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Train wreck at Montparnasse]]'' ([[October 22]], [[1895]]) by Studio Lévy and Sons]]
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== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
-*[[1964]] - [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] is awarded the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]], but turns down the honour. +*[[1964]] - [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] is awarded the [[Nobel Prize for Literature]], but turns down the honour.
-* 1964 - [[Canada]]: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official [[Flag of Canada]].+
-*[[1965]] - End of the [[Second Kashmir War]] between [[India]] and [[Pakistan]].+
-*[[1966]] - [[The Supremes]] become the first all-female [[music]] group to attain a No. 1 selling [[album]] (''[[Supremes A' Go-Go|The Supremes A' Go-Go]]''). +
-*[[1968]] - [[Apollo program]]: ''[[Apollo 7]]'' safely splashes down in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] after orbiting the [[Earth]] 163 times. +
-*[[1970]] - [[Tunku Abdul Rahman]] resign from Prime Minister of [[Malaysia]].+
-*[[1972]] - [[Vietnam War]]: In [[Saigon]], [[Henry Kissinger]] and [[South Vietnam]]ese President [[Nguyen Van Thieu]] meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between [[United States|American]]s and [[North Vietnam]]ese in [[Paris]]. Thieu rejects the proposal and accused the United States of conspiring to undermine his regime +
-*[[1976]] - [[FD&C Red No. 4|Red Dye No. 4]] is banned by the [[US Food and Drug Administration]] after it is discovered that it causes [[tumor]]s in the bladders of [[dog]]s. The dye is still used in [[Canada]].+
-*[[1981]] - The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the [[Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1968)|Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization]] for its [[Strike action|strike]] the previous August.+
-* 1981 - The founding congress of the [[Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation (Hareram Sharma)|Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation]] faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins.+
-* 1981 - The [[TGV]] railway service [[Paris]]-[[Lyon]] is inaugurated.+
-*[[1983]] - Two [[Prison officer|correctional officers]] are killed by inmates in [[United States Penitentiary, Marion|Marion, Illinois]]. The incident inspired the [[Supermax]] model of prisons.+
-*[[1986]] - U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] signs the [[Tax Reform Act of 1986]] into law.+
-* 1986 - [[WNBC]] traffic reporter [[Jane Dornacker]] is killed when the helicopter she is riding in stalls and crashes into the [[Hudson River]].+
-*[[1987]] - [[John Adams (composer)|John Adams]]'s opera ''[[Nixon in China (opera)|Nixon in China]]'' debuts at the [[Houston Grand Opera]] in [[Houston, Texas]].+
-* 1987 - The pinnacle rock "Gendarme" falls at [[Seneca Rocks]].+
-*[[1991]] - [[Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople|Dimitrios Arhondonis]], metropolitan of [[Chalcedon]] elected 270th Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch as [[Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople|Patriarch Bartholomew I]] of the [[Orthodox church]].+
-*[[1999]] - [[Maurice Papon]], an official in the [[Vichy France]] government during [[World War II]], is jailed for [[crimes against humanity]].+
-*[[2005]] - Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the [[2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season]] the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.+
-* 2005 - Crash of [[Bellview Airlines Flight 210]] in [[Nigeria]] kills all 117 on board.+
-* 2005 - The first phase of [[Transantiago]], the new public transport system of [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago de Chile]] is implemented.+
-*[[2006]] - A [[Panama Canal expansion proposal]] is approved by 77.8% of voters in a [[Panama Canal expansion referendum, 2006|National referendum]] held in [[Panama]].+
-* 2006 - [[Michael Schumacher]] drives his last Formula 1 Race. The very same day the Spaniard [[Fernando Alonso]] wins the 2006 Formula 1 World Championship, becoming the 8th and youngest driver to win it twice in a row to emulate the achievements of [[Mika Häkkinen]], [[Michael Schumacher]] and five other drivers.+
==Births== ==Births==
-*[[1071]] - [[William IX of Aquitaine|William IX, Duke of Aquitaine]] and poet (d. [[1126]]) 
-*[[1197]] - [[Emperor Juntoku]] of Japan (d. [[1242]]) 
-*[[1511]] - [[Erasmus Reinhold]], German astronomer and mathematician (d. [[1553]]) 
-*[[1558]] - [[Jacques Sirmond]], French scholar and Jesuit (d. [[1651]])<!-- (others say he born in October 12) --> 
-*[[1592]] - [[Gustav Horn, Count of Pori|Gustaf Horn]], Swedish soldier and politician (d. [[1657]]) 
-*[[1688]] - [[Nadir Shah]] of Persia (d. [[1747]]) 
-*[[1689]] - King [[John V of Portugal]] (d. [[1750]]) 
-*[[1692]] - [[Elizabeth Farnese]], second queen of King Philip V of Spain (d. [[1766]]) 
-*[[1729]] - [[Johann Reinhold Forster]], German botanist (d. [[1798]]) 
-*[[1770]] - [[Thomas Seebeck]], Baltic German physicist (d. [[1831]]) 
-*[[1809]] - [[Volney E. Howard]], American politician (d. [[1889]]) 
*[[1811]] - [[Franz Liszt]], Hungarian pianist and composer (d. [[1886]]) *[[1811]] - [[Franz Liszt]], Hungarian pianist and composer (d. [[1886]])
*[[1818]] - [[Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle]], French poet (d. [[1894]]) *[[1818]] - [[Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle]], French poet (d. [[1894]])
-*[[1821]] - [[Collis Potter Huntington]], American railroad executive (d. [[1900]])+*[[1870]] - [[Lord Alfred Douglas]], British writer and lover of Oscar Wilde (d. 1945)
-*[[1844]] - [[Louis Riel]], Canadian Metis Political Leader (d. [[1885]])+*[[1919]] - [[Doris Lessing]], British writer (d. 2013)
-*[[1858]] - German Empress [[Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein|Augusta Victoria]], wife of German Emperor Wilhelm II (d. [[1921]])+
-*[[1865]] - [[Kristjan Raud]], Estonian painter (d. [[1943]])+
-*[[1870]] - [[Alfred Douglas]], English partner of [[Oscar Wilde]] (d. [[1945]])+
-* 1870 - [[Ivan Bunin]], Russian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1953]])+
-*[[1873]] - [[Gustaf John Ramstedt]], Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (d. [[1950]])+
-*[[1881]] - [[Clinton Davisson]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1958]])+
-*[[1886]] - [[Erik Bergman (Lutheran minister)|Erik Bergman]], Lutheran pastor (d. [[1970]])+
-*[[1887]] - [[John Reed (journalist)|John Reed]], American journalist (d. [[1920]])+
-*[[1891]] - [[Parker Fennelly]], American comedian and actor+
-*[[1894]] - [[Méi Lánfāng]], Chinese opera performer (d. [[1961]])+
-*[[1896]] - [[Charles Glen King]], American biochimist (d. [[1988]])+
-*[[1900]] - [[James Hall]], American actor+
-*[[1903]] - [[George Wells Beadle]], American geneticist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1989]])+
-* 1903 - [[Curly Howard]], American actor and comedian, member of the [[Three Stooges]] (d. [[1952]])+
-*[[1904]] - [[Constance Bennett]], American actress (d. [[1965]])+
-*[[1905]] - [[Joseph Kosma]], Hungarian-born composer (d. [[1969]])+
-*[[1907]] - [[Jimmie Foxx]], American baseball player (d. [[1967]])+
-*[[1908]] - [[John Gould (columnist)|John Gould]], American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. [[2003]])+
-*[[1912]] - [[Frances Drake (actor)|Frances Drake]], American actress (d. [[2000]])+
-*[[1913]] - [[Bảo Đại]], [[Emperor of Vietnam]] (d. [[1997]])+
-* 1913 - [[Robert Capa]], American war photographer (born in [[Hungary]]) (d. [[1954]])+
-* 1913 - [[Hans-Peter Tschudi]], Swiss Federal Councilor (d. [[2002]])+
-*[[1917]] - [[Joan Fontaine]], American actress+
-*[[1918]] - [[Lou Klein]], American baseball player (d. [[1976]])+
-*[[1919]] - [[Doris Lessing]], British writer+
*[[1920]] - [[Timothy Leary]], American writer and professor (d. [[1996]]) *[[1920]] - [[Timothy Leary]], American writer and professor (d. [[1996]])
*[[1921]] - [[Georges Brassens]], French singer (d. [[1981]]) *[[1921]] - [[Georges Brassens]], French singer (d. [[1981]])
-* 1921 - [[Alexander Kronrod]], Russian mathematician (d. [[1986]])+*[[1925]] - [[Robert Rauschenberg]], American painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (d. 2008)
-*[[1923]] - [[Bert Trautmann]], German former footballer+*[[1928]] - [[Nelson Pereira dos Santos]], Brazilian film director
-*[[1925]] - [[Robert Rauschenberg]], American painter, sculptor, and graphic artist+*[[1943]] - [[Catherine Deneuve]], French actress
-* 1925 - [[Dory Previn]], American songwriter+*[[1969]] - [[Spike Jonze]], American director and film producer
-*[[1927]] - [[Allan Hendrickse]], South African politician (d. [[2005]])+
-*[[1929]] - [[Lev Yashin]], Soviet footballer (d. [[1990]])+
-*[[1933]] - [[Helmut Senekowitsch]], Austrian footballer (d. [[2007]])+
-*[[1935]] - [[Ann Rule]], American true-crime writer+
-*[[1936]] - [[Bobby Seale]], American civil rights activist+
-*[[1937]] - [[Manos Loïzos]], Greek composer (d. [[1982]])+
-*[[1938]] - [[Derek Jacobi]], English actor+
-* 1938 - [[Christopher Lloyd]], American actor+
-*[[1939]] - [[George Cohen]], English footballer+
-* 1939 - [[Tony Roberts (actor)|Tony Roberts]], American actor+
-*[[1942]] - [[Annette Funicello]], American actress+
-* 1942 - [[Bobby Fuller]], American rock singer and guitarist (d. [[1966]])+
-*[[1943]] - [[Jan de Bont]], Dutch film director+
-* 1943 - [[Catherine Deneuve]], French actress+
-* 1943 - [[Allen Coage]], American professional wrestler+
-*[[1945]] - [[Leslie West]], American musician+
-* 1945 - [[Sheila Sherwood]], British long jumper+
-* 1945 - [[Yvan Ponton]], Quebec actor and television host +
-*[[1946]] - [[Kelvin MacKenzie]], British media tycoon+
-* 1946 - [[Claude Charron]], French Canadian politician and TV personality+
-* 1946 - [[Eddie Brigati]], American singer ([[The Rascals]])+
-*[[1947]] - [[Raymond Bachand]], French-Canadian politician and businessman+
-*[[1948]] - [[Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme|Lynette Fromme]], American attempted assassin of [[Gerald Ford]]+
-*[[1949]] - [[Stiv Bators]], American musician ([[The Dead Boys]]) (d. [[1990]])+
-* 1949 - [[Arsène Wenger]], French football manager+
-*[[1952]] - [[Jeff Goldblum]], American actor+
-*[[1956]] - [[Frank DiPino]], American baseball player+
-*[[1959]] - [[Arto Salminen]], Finnish writer (d. [[2005]])+
-* 1959 - [[Marc Shaiman]], American composer+
-*[[1960]] - [[Darryl Jenifer]], American bassist ([[Bad Brains]])+
-* 1960 - [[Cris Kirkwood]], American musician ([[Meat Puppets]])+
-*[[1961]] - [[Robert Torti]], American actor+
-*[[1962]] - [[Bob Odenkirk]], American actor and comedian ([[Mr. Show]])+
-*[[1963]] - [[Brian Boitano]], American figure skater+
-*[[1964]] - [[Dražen Petrović]], Croatian basketball player (d. [[1993]])+
-* 1964 - [[Toby Mac]], American singer and songwriter+
-*[[1965]] - [[John Wesley Harding (singer)|John Wesley Harding]], American musician+
-* 1965 - [[Otis Smith (football)|Otis Smith]], American football player+
-*[[1966]] - [[Valeria Golino]], Italian actress+
-*[[1967]] - [[Rita Guerra]], Portuguese singer+
-* 1967 - [[Ron Tugnutt]], Canadian ice hockey player+
-* 1967 - [[Ulrike Maier]], Austrian alpine skier (d. [[1994]])+
-*[[1968]] - [[Shaggy (artist)|Shaggy]], Jamaican musician+
-* 1968 - [[Stéphane Quintal]], Canadian ice hockey player+
-* 1968 - [[Jay Johnston]], American actor and comedian ([[Mr. Show]])+
-*[[1969]] - [[Héctor Carrasco]], Dominican baseball player+
-* 1969 - [[Spike Jonze]], American director and film producer+
-* 1969 - [[Helmut Lotti]], Belgian singer+
-*[[1972]] - [[D'Lo Brown]], American professional wrestler+
-*[[1973]] - [[Ichiro Suzuki]], Japanese baseball player+
-*[[1974]] - [[Tim Kinsella]], American musician+
-* 1974 - [[Miroslav Šatan]], Slovak ice hockey player+
-*[[1975]] - [[Míchel Salgado]], Spanish footballer+
-*[[1976]] - [[Jon Foreman]], American musician ([[Switchfoot]])+
-*[[1978]] - [[Owais Shah]], English cricketer+
-* 1978 - [[Dion Glover]], American basketball player+
-* 1978 - [[Chaswe Nsofwa]], Zambian footballer (d. [[2007]])+
-*[[1980]] - [[Garrett Tierney]], American musician ([[Brand New]])+
-*[[1981]] - [[Olivier Pla]], French racing driver+
-*[[1982]] - [[Robinson Canó]], Dominican baseball player+
-*[[1985]] - [[Zachary Hanson]], American musician ([[Hanson (band)|Hanson]])+
-*[[1986]] - [[Kara Lang]], Canadian soccer player<!--"Soccer" is the correct term for Canada.-->+
-*[[1987]] - [[Jake Richardson]], English footballer+
-*[[1990]] - [[Jonathan Lipnicki]], American actor+
-*[[1992]] - [[Sofia Vassilieva]], American actress+
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-Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information.+
-Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.+
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== Deaths == == Deaths ==
-* [[741]] - [[Charles Martel]], leader of the Franks (b. [[686]])+*[[1906]] - [[Paul Cézanne]], French painter (b. [[1839]])
-*[[1383]] - King [[Fernando I of Portugal]] (b. [[1345]])+*[[1965]] - [[Paul Tillich]], German-American philosopher (b. [[1886]])
-*[[1565]] - [[Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres]], French bibliophile (b. [[1479]])+*[[1995]] - [[Kingsley Amis]], English writer (b. [[1922]])
-*[[1613]] - [[Pomponio Nenna]], Italian composer+
-*[[1625]] - [[Kikkawa Hiroie]], Japanese politician (b. [[1561]])+
-*[[1674]] - [[Gerbrand van den Eeckhout]], Dutch painter (b. [[1621]])+
-*[[1708]] - [[Hermann Witsius]], Dutch theologian (b. [[1636]])+
-*[[1751]] - [[William IV, Prince of Orange]] (b. [[1711]])+
-*[[1755]] - [[Elisha Williams]], American rector of Yale College (b. [[1694]])+
-*[[1792]] - [[Guillaume Le Gentil]], French astronomer (b. [[1725]])+
-*[[1847]] - [[Sahle Selassie]], Negus of Shewa+
-*[[1859]] - [[Louis Spohr]], German violinist and composer (b. [[1784]])+
-*[[1891]] - [[Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow]], Austrian physiologist (b. [[1846]])+
-*[[1906]] - [[Paul Cezanne]], French painter (b. [[1839]])+
-*[[1917]] - [[Bob Fitzsimmons]], English boxer (b. [[1863]])+
-*[[1918]] - [[Myrtle Gonzalez]], American film and stage actress (b. [[1891]])+
-*[[1927]] - [[Borisav Stanković|Borisav "Bora" Stanković]], [[Serbia]]n writer (b. [[1876]])+
-*[[1928]] - [[Andrew Fisher]], fifth [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1862]])+
-*[[1934]] - [[Pretty Boy Floyd]], American gangster (b. [[1904]])+
-*[[1935]] - [[Komitas]], Armenian composer (b. [[1869]])+
-*[[1952]] - [[Ernst Rüdin]], Swiss nazi physician (b. [[1874]])+
-*[[1954]] - [[Jibanananda Das]], Bengali poet (b. [[1899]])+
-*[[1969]] - [[Tommy Edwards]], American signer (b. [[1922]])+
-*[[1973]] - [[Pablo Casals]], Catalan cellist and conductor (b. [[1876]])+
-*[[1978]] - [[John Riley]], English poet (murdered) (b. [[1937]])+
-*[[1979]] - [[Nadia Boulanger]], French composer and composition teacher (b. [[1887]])+
-* [[1985]] - [[Viorica Ursuleac]], Romanian soprano (b. [[1894]])+
-*[[1986]] - [[Albert Szent-Györgyi]], Hungarian physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1893]])+
-* 1986 - [[Jane Dornacker]], musician, actress, and traffic reporter for [[WNBC]] Radio.+
-* 1986 - [[Ye Jianying]], Chinese general and politician+
-*[[1987]] - [[Lino Ventura]], Italian-born actor (b. [[1919]])+
-*[[1989]] - [[Ewan MacColl]], English folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer (b. [[1915]])+
-*[[1992]] - [[Cleavon Little]], American actor (b. [[1939]])+
-*[[1995]] - Sir [[Kingsley Amis]], English writer (b. [[1922]])+
-*[[1998]] - [[Eric Ambler]], English novelist (b. [[1909]])+
-*[[2000]] - [[Rodney Anoa'i]], aka Yokozuna, American professional wrestler (b. [[1966]]) +
-*[[2001]] - [[Helmut Krackowizer|Prof. Dr. Dkfm. Helmut Krackowizer]], journalist and motorcycle racer (b. [[1922]])+
-*[[2002]] - [[Countess Geraldine Apponyi de Nagy-Apponyi|Queen Geraldina of the Albanians]] (b. [[1915]])+
-*[[2005]] - [[Arman]], French-born artist (b. [[1928]])+
-* 2005 - [[Tony Adams (producer)|Tony Adams]], Irish film producer (b. [[1953]])+
-* 2005 - [[Franky Gee]], American singer ([[Captain Jack (band)|Captain Jack]]) (b. [[1962]])+
-*[[2006]] - [[Arthur Hill (actor)|Arthur Hill]], Canadian actor (b. [[1922]])+
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-== Notes ==+
-# Louis Althusser+
-# Paul Cézanne+
-# Kingsley Amis+
-# Timothy Leary+
-# Laurie Anderson+
-# The Crimes of Love+
-# Jio Berk+
-# Catherine Deneuve+
-# Alexandre-Louis de Villeterque+
-# Paul Tillich+
-# Spike Jonze+
-* Lord Alfred Douglas+
-* Nelson Pereira dos Santos+
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