History for October 22
History for October 22 - On-This-Day.com- 1797 - Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first recorded parachute jump. He made the jump from about 3,000 feet.
- 1836 - Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas.
- 1962 - U.S. President Kennedy went on radio and television to inform the United States about his order to send U.S. forces to blockade Cuba. The blockade was in response to the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.
- 1986 - U.S. President Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.
- 1999 - China ended its first-ever human rights conference in which it defied Western definitions of civil liberties.
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