ON THIS DAY
What happened on October 22?
October 22 links a daring early parachute descent and a landmark opera-house opening with the Cuban Missile Crisis and India’s first lunar mission.
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André-Jacques Garnerin made a pioneering parachute descent
Garnerin descended over Paris from a balloon using a frameless parachute and landed safely despite violent oscillations.
The Metropolitan Opera opened
New York’s Metropolitan Opera House opened with a performance of Charles Gounod’s Faust.
President Kennedy announced a naval quarantine of Cuba
John F. Kennedy told the public that Soviet nuclear missiles had been found in Cuba and announced a naval quarantine.
India launched Chandrayaan-1
The Indian Space Research Organisation launched its first lunar mission from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.
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