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October 22

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Kashmir conflict

79 years ago

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1844

Sarah Bernhardt

Died aged 78

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1285th

Charles Martel

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Famous births28

1688 · 338 yrs

Nader Shah

Nader Shah Afshar (born Nadr Qoli; Persian: نادرشاه افشار; 6 August 1698 or 22 October 1688 – 20 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful rulers in Iranian history, ruling as the emperor of Iran (Persia) from 1736 to 1747, when he was assassinated during a rebellion.

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MilitaryDied aged 58

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1811 · 215 yrs

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period.

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MusicDied aged 74

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1818 · 208 yrs

Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle

Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (French:; 22 October 1818 – 17 July 1894) was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle.

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LiteratureDied aged 75

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1844 · 182 yrs

Louis Riel

Louis Riel (French:; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political leader of the Métis people. He led two resistance movements against the Government of Canada and its first prime minister John A. Macdonald.

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PoliticsDied aged 41

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1844 · 182 yrs

Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt (French:; born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by…

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ArtDied aged 78

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1870 · 156 yrs

Ivan Bunin

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin ( BOO-neen or BOO-nin; Russian: Ива́н Алексе́евич Бу́нин, IPA:; 22 October 1870 – 8 November 1953) was a Russian writer. He became the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933.

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LiteratureDied aged 83

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1881 · 145 yrs

Clinton Davisson

Clinton Joseph Davisson (October 22, 1881 – February 1, 1958) was an American experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with George Paget Thomson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals."

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1882 · 144 yrs

Yakub Kolas

Yakub Kolas (also Jakub Kołas, Belarusian: Яку́б Ко́лас, 3 November 1882 – 13 August 1956), real name Kanstantsin Mikhailavich Mitskievich (Канстанці́н Міха́йлавіч Міцке́віч, Russian: Константи́н Миха́йлович Мицке́вич, Polish: Konstanty Mickiewicz) was a Belarusian writer, dramatist, poet and translator.

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1903 · 123 yrs

George Wells Beadle

George Wells Beadle (October 22, 1903 – June 9, 1989) was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells.

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ScienceWould be 123

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1913 · 113 yrs

Bảo Đại

Bảo Đại (Vietnamese:, chữ Hán: 保大, lit. "keeper of greatness", 22 October 1913 – 31 July 1997), born Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy (chữ Hán: 阮福永瑞), was the 13th and final emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of Vietnam.

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RoyaltyWould be 113

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1913 · 113 yrs

Robert Capa

Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann, Hungarian:; October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history.

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1915 · 111 yrs

Isaac Shamir

Yitzhak Shamir (Hebrew: יצחק שמיר,; born Yitzhak Yezernitsky; 22 October 1915 – 30 June 2012) was an Israeli politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Israel, serving two terms (1983–1984, 1986–1992).

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Famous deaths10

AD 741 · 1285 yrs

Charles Martel

Charles Martel (c. 688 – 22 October 741), Martel being an Old French sobriquet meaning "The Hammer", was a Frankish political and military leader who, as Duke and Prince of the Franks and Mayor of the Palace, was the de facto ruler of the Franks from 718 until his death.

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MilitaryDied aged 53

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1725 · 301 yrs

Alessandro Scarlatti

Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the most important representative of the Neapolitan School of opera.

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MusicDied aged 65

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1882 · 144 yrs

János Arany

János Arany (Hungarian pronunciation:; archaic English: John Arany; 2 March 1817 – 22 October 1882) was a Hungarian poet, writer, translator and journalist.

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LiteratureDied aged 65

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1883 · 143 yrs

Thomas Mayne Reid

Thomas Mayne Reid (4 April 1818 – 22 October 1883) was an Irish British novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour, and the lives of American Indians.

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LiteratureDied aged 65

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1906 · 120 yrs

Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne ( say-ZAN, UK also siz-AN, US also say-ZAHN; French:; Occitan: Pau Cesana; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century and formed the bridge between late…

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ArtDied aged 67

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1935 · 91 yrs

Komitas

Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas (Armenian: Կոմիտաս; 8 October 1869 – 22 October 1935), was an Ottoman-Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian national school of music.

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MusicDied aged 66

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1975 · 51 yrs

Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee (14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) was an English historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's College London.

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1979 · 47 yrs

Nadia Boulanger

Juliette Nadia Boulanger (French:; 16 September 1887 – 22 October 1979) was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the twentieth century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organist.

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MusicWould be 139

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1990 · 36 yrs

Louis Althusser

Louis Pierre Althusser (UK:, US:; French:; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became professor of philosophy. Althusser's life was marked by periods of intense mental illness.

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1995 · 31 yrs

Kingsley Amis

Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism.

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Events5

1739 · 287 yrs

War of Jenkins' Ear

The War of Jenkins' Ear was fought between Great Britain and Spain from 1739 to 1748. Most of the fighting took place in New Granada and the Caribbean Sea, with major operations over by 1742.

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War

1947 · 79 yrs

Kashmir conflict

The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict over the Kashmir region, primarily between India and Pakistan, and also between China and India in the northeastern portion of the region.

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War

1947 · 79 yrs

Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948

The India–Pakistan war of 1947–1948, also known as the first Kashmir war, was a war fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir from 1947 to 1948.

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War

1947 · 79 yrs

Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts

Since the partition of British India in 1947 and subsequent creation of the dominions of India and Pakistan, the two countries have been involved in a number of wars, conflicts, and military standoffs.

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War

2012 · 14 yrs

Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy (unofficially referred to as Superstorm Sandy) was an extremely large and devastating tropical cyclone which ravaged the Caribbean and the coastal Mid-Atlantic region of the United States in late October 2012.

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