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Events

• 1724 (302 years ago) J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Adorn yourself, O dear soul) in Leipzig on the 20th Sunday after Trinity, based on the communion hymn of the same name.
• 1859 (167 years ago) Spain declares war on Morocco.
• 1879 (147 years ago) Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb; the bulb lasted 131⁄2 hours before burning out.
• 1910 (116 years ago) Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
• 1964 (62 years ago) Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he does not accept the prize.
• 1997 (29 years ago) Danish fugitive Steen Christensen kills two police officers, Chief Constable Eero Holsti and Senior Constable Antero Palo, in Ullanlinna, Helsinki, Finland during his prison escape.
• 2019 (7 years ago) Same-sex marriage is legalised, and abortion is decriminalised in Northern Ireland as a result of the Northern Ireland Assembly not being restored.

Births

• 1811 (215 years ago) Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (died 1886)
• 1844 (182 years ago) Sarah Bernhardt, French actress and manager (died 1923)
• 1870 (156 years ago) Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1953)
• 1919 (107 years ago) Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
• 1929 (97 years ago) Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (died 1990)
• 1943 (83 years ago) Catherine Deneuve, French actress and singer
• 1949 (77 years ago) Arsène Wenger, French footballer and manager
• 1970 (56 years ago) Javier Milei, Argentine politician and economist, President of Argentina

Deaths

• 741 (1285 years ago) Charles Martel, Frankish political and military leader (born 688)
• 1883 (143 years ago) Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish British novelist and soldier (born 1818)
• 1906 (120 years ago) Paul Cézanne, French painter (born 1839)
• 1973 (53 years ago) Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (born 1876)
• 1979 (47 years ago) Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator (born 1887)
• 1986 (40 years ago) Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1893)
• 1990 (36 years ago) Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (born 1918)
• 1995 (31 years ago) Kingsley Amis, English novelist, poet, critic (born 1922)

All 372 events, births and deaths of October 22