Today in History
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2008 India Launches its First Lunar Mission
The unmanned space probe called Chandrayaan-1 was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation
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1957 François Duvalier takes office
François Duvalier, also known as Papa Doc, became the President of Haiti.
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1936 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
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1884 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
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1797 First Person to Jump With a Parachute
French balloonist André-Jacques Garnerin jumped out of a balloon over Parc Monceau in Paris using a
Births On This Day,
October, 22
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1973 Ichiro Suzuki
Japanese baseball player
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1949 Arsène Wenger
French footballer, manager
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1870 Ivan Bunin
Russian author, poet, Nobel Prize laureate
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1844 Louis Riel
Canadian politician
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1811 Franz Liszt
Hungarian pianist, composer
Deaths On This Day,
October, 22
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2002 Richard Helms
American diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence
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1995 Kingsley Amis
English author, poet, critic
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1954 Jibanananda Das
Bengali poet
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1906 Paul Cézanne
French painter
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741 Charles Martel
Frankish military leader, politician
