12 History Lessons + 7 Births & 7 Deaths for October 22, 2025
Today’s History:
- 1844 – The “Great Disappointment”: followers of William Miller expect the Second Coming; the non-event reshapes American Adventism.
- 1859 – Spain declares war on Morocco, launching the Hispano–Moroccan War.
- 1907 – Panic of 1907 intensifies as a run on New York’s Knickerbocker Trust helps trigger a broader financial crisis.
- 1934 – FBI agents kill bank robber “Pretty Boy” Floyd near East Liverpool, Ohio.
- 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: President John F. Kennedy announces a naval “quarantine” of Cuba in a televised address.
- 1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre declines the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 1968 – Apollo 7 splashes down in the Atlantic, completing the first crewed U.S. spaceflight since Apollo 1.
- 1975 – Soviet probe Venera 9 transmits the first images from the surface of Venus.
- 1978 – Inauguration Mass of Pope John Paul II is celebrated in St. Peter’s Square.
- 1979 – The United States admits Iran’s deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi for medical treatment, inflaming tensions before the hostage crisis.
- 1986 – President Ronald Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.
- 2008 – India launches Chandrayaan-1, its first lunar mission.
- 2014 – Canada’s Parliament Hill in Ottawa comes under attack; a soldier is killed at the National War Memorial.
Today’s Birthdays:
- 1938 – Christopher Lloyd, actor (“Back to the Future,” “Taxi”) (87)
- 1943 – Catherine Deneuve, French cinema icon (82)
- 1952 – Jeff Goldblum, actor (“Jurassic Park,” “The Fly”) (73)
- 1962 – Bob Odenkirk, actor/filmmaker (“Better Call Saul”) (63)
- 1968 – Shaggy, reggae/dancehall artist (“It Wasn’t Me”) (57)
- 1973 – Ichiro Suzuki, Baseball Hall of Famer and MLB hit machine (52)
- 1992 – 21 Savage, rapper and songwriter (33)
Today’s Deaths:
- 1906 – Paul Cézanne, Post-Impressionist painter (67)
- 1934 – “Pretty Boy” Floyd, notorious bank robber (30)
- 1986 – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Nobel-winning physiologist who discovered vitamin C (93)
- 1995 – Kingsley Amis, novelist and critic (“Lucky Jim”) (73)
- 2002 – Richard Helms, CIA director (1966–73) (89)
- 2017 – George Young, guitarist/songwriter/producer (The Easybeats; AC/DC early producer) (70)
- 2021 – Peter Scolari, Emmy-winning actor (“Bosom Buddies,” “Newhart”) (66)
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