What happened on 22 October?

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

1. 1879 Edison's incandescent light bulb Thomas Edison demonstrates a practical long-lasting incandescent bulb at Menlo Park; opens the electric age.
2. 1962 Kennedy announces the naval quarantine of Cuba In a 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 Cuba will br
3. 1947 Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-48 (Kashmir) First Kashmir war; UN-arranged ceasefire establishes the ceasefire line that later became the Line of Control.
4. 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.
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.
9. 1926 The Sun Also Rises Wounded veterans drink their way from Paris to the bullfights of Pamplona — Hemingway's first novel defines the 'Lost Generation' in his stripped-down prose.
10. 1964 Sartre refuses the Nobel Prize Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Sartre declines it — a writer, he says, should not allow himself to be turned into an institution.