What happened on 22 October?

8 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1962 Kennedy announces the naval quarantine of Cuba In a seven-minute television address, Kennedy reveals the Soviet missiles in Cuba to the world, announces a naval quarantine of the island, and warns that any missile launched from
2. 1879 Edison's incandescent light bulb Thomas Edison demonstrates a practical long-lasting incandescent bulb at Menlo Park; opens the electric age.
3. 1764 Battle of Buxar East India Company defeats coalition of Mughal Shah Alam II, Mir Qasim and the Nawab of Awadh; opens India to British rule.
4. 1947 Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-48 (Kashmir) First Kashmir war; UN-arranged ceasefire establishes the Line of Control.
5. 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes Louis XIV revokes Henry IV's edict; Huguenots emigrate en masse; significant economic and demographic damage to France.
6. 1943 Born: Catherine Deneuve Leading lady of French cinema; Belle de jour, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
7. 1918 San Francisco masks up San Francisco orders every citizen masked in public — enforced with fines, arrests, and a health officer who shoots a man refusing to comply. When the ordinance returns for the win
8. 1811 Born: Franz Liszt Hungarian virtuoso pianist and prolific Romantic composer.