Venera 9, the USSR unmanned space mission lands on Venus.
Tag: 22 October
22 October 1964
Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He turns down the honor.
22 October 1907
A run on the shares of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression in the “Panic of 1907”.
22 October1962
US President John F. Kennedy announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval “quarantine”…