On October 22
No pivotal events are recorded on exactly October 22. The closest is Battle of Trafalgar on October 21, 1805 (1 day earlier).
This week in history (Oct 19 to Oct 25)
After a speculative boom, the New York Stock Exchange collapsed in late October 1929.
At Zama in North Africa the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio (later 'Africanus') decisively defeated Hannibal, ending the Second Punic War and Carthage's status as a great power.
On 21 October 1805, off Cape Trafalgar on the southwest coast of Spain, a British fleet of 27 ships of the line under Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson decisively defeated a combined Franco-Spanish fleet of 33 ships commanded by Admiral…
The Hungarian Revolution began on 23 October 1956 when student-led demonstrations in Budapest, demanding political reform and an end to Soviet domination, escalated into a nationwide revolt.