What happend on 22nd October

21.10
23.10
2005

Crash of Bellview Airlines Flight 210 in Nigeria kills all 117 on board.

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.

1999

Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.

1989

Jacob Wetterling is abducted in St. Joseph, Minnesota.

1987

John Coolidge Adams's opera Nixon in China debuts at the Houston Grand Opera in Houston, Texas.

1986

U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.

1981

The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.

1976

Red dye #4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.

1975

Gays in the military: US Air Force Tech Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, is given a general discharge after appearing in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the headline (printed in all uppercase) "I Am A Homosexual."

1972

Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris. Thieu rejects the proposal and accused the United States of conspiring to undermine his regime