Today in History: Barış Manço's Television Program Started from 7 to 77 on TRT

October 22 is the 295th (296th in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 70.

Railways

• 22 October 1882 Mersin-Adana concession proposal was presented to Mabeyn-i Hümayun with the approval of Meclis-i Vükela.
• 22 October 1927 Construction started on the Filyos-Irmak line in Filyos.
• 22 October 1939 Sivas Railway Workshops were opened with a ceremony.

Events 

• 1600 – The Ottoman army conquers the Kanije Castle of Hungary.
• 1784 - Russia establishes a colony on Alaska's Kodiak Island.
• 1836 - Sam Houston becomes the first President of the Republic of Texas with ceremonies.
• 1917 - Time newspaper began to be published by Ahmet Emin Yalman and Asım Us.
• 1919 – In Amasya, between Mustafa Kemal Pasha and the Minister of Navy of the Istanbul Government, Salih Hulusi Kezrak. Amasya Protocol signed.
• 1931 - American mafia leader Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion.
• 1937 – The uprising that started in the Tunceli region on the night of March 21 was suppressed. The Law on the Administration of Tunceli, which was enacted for four years, lasted until 1947 with various additions.
• 1938 – Chester Carlson photocopyhe invented.
• 1947 – The first batch of US aid arrives at Iskenderun Port. It has been announced that the construction of the Istanbul-Ankara highway will begin with the first materials.
• 1953 - Laos declared its independence from France.
• 1957 - The USA suffers its first casualties in Vietnam.
• 1962 - US President John F. Kennedy announced that there were Soviet missiles in Cuba. The US Navy blockaded Cuba. The missile crisis put the world at risk of nuclear war.
• 1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre wins the Nobel Prize in Literature, but turns it down.
• 1967 – The Apollo 7 spacecraft landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean after 163 orbits of the Earth.
• 1972 – THY's Trojan plane was hijacked to Sofia. A day later, the 4 hijackers who released the passengers took refuge in Bulgaria.
• 1975 – Turkey's ambassador to Vienna, Hüseyin Daniş Tunalıgil, was assassinated in Vienna, where he was serving, by three militants of the Armenian Genocide Justice Commandos.
• 1976 – Confederation of Rights Workers Unions (Hak-İş) was established.
• 1980 – Director Ömer Kavur's film Yusuf and Kenan He won a gold medal in Milan.
• 1983 – 1 million 500 thousand people protested against nuclear in West Germany and France.
• 1988 – Barış Manço's television program started from 7 to 77 on TRT.
• 1993 – Diyarbakir Gendarmerie Regional Commander Brigadier General Bahtiyar Aydin died in the clash that broke out in Diyarbakir's Lice district. A curfew was declared in the district.
• 1997 – Ministry of Culture, Oscaras a movie to go Bandithe chose.
• 2005 – In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest, a contest was held in Denmark in which the best 14 songs competed. The song "Waterloo" by the Swedish ABBA group, which competed in 1974, was selected as the winner.
• 2009 – Windows 7 is officially released.

Births 

• 1197 – Juntoku, 84th emperor of Japan in the traditional succession order (d. 1242)
• 1592 – Gustav Horn, Swedish nobleman, military officer, and Governor-General (d.
• 1688 – Nadir Shah, Shah of Iran (d. 1747)
• 1783 – Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, French self-taught polymath in the 19th century (d. 1840)
• 1811 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer (d. 1886)
• 1844 – Sarah Bernhardt, French theater actress (d. 1923)
• 1870 – Ivan Bunin, Russian writer and poet (d. 1953)
• 1873 – Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finnish Turcologist, Altaist (d. 1950)
• 1881 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist who received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1958)
• 1885 Stanisław Kot, Polish historian and politician (d. 1975)
• 1887 – John Reed, American poet, journalist, author, and communist activist (d. 1920)
• 1896 – José Leitão de Barros, Portuguese screenwriter and filmmaker (d. 1967)
• 1898 – Dámaso Alonso, Spanish poet and critic (d. 1990)
• 1903 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist (d. 1989)
• 1904 – Constance Bennett, American stage, film and television actress (d. 1965)
• 1904 – Saúl Calandra, Argentine football player (d. 1973)
• 1905 – Karl Guthe Jansky, American physicist and engineer (d. 1950)
• 1913 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-American photographer (d. 1954)
• 1913 – Bao Dai, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1997)
• 1916 – İlhan Arakon, Turkish cinematographer, art director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Joan Fontaine, English actress (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Doris Lessing, English writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Timothy Leary, American author, psychologist, and computer programmer (d. 1996)
• 1921 Georges Brassens, French singer (d. 1981)
• 1923 – Bert Trautmann, German football player and manager (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Slater Martin, American professional basketball player (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Robert Rauschenberg, American painter, sculptor, photographer, printmaker, and performance artist (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Lev Yashin, Soviet football player (d. 1990)
• 1930 – Estela de Carlotto, Argentine human rights activist and civil society administrator
• 1930 – José Guardiola, Spanish singer (d. 2012)
• 1937 – Manos Loïzos, Egyptian-born Greek composer (d. 1982)
• 1938 – Derek Jacobi, English actor and film director
• 1938 – Christopher Lloyd, American actor
• 1939 – Joaquim Chissano, Mozambican politician
• 1941 – Ahmet Mete Işıkara, Turkish scientist, geophysics engineer and educator (d. 2013)
• 1941 – Charles Keating, English actor (d. 2014)
• 1942 – Annette Funicello, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
• 1943 Catherine Coulson, American actress (d. 2015)
• 1943 – Catherine Deneuve, French actress
• 1943 – Seif Sharif Hamad, Tanzanian politician (d. 2021)
• 1945 – Leslie West, American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (d. 2020)
• 1946 – Godfrey Chitalu, former Zambian international football player (d. 1993)
• 1947 – Deepak Chopra, Indian-American physician and alternative medicine specialist
• 1949 – Arsène Wenger, French former football player and manager
• 1950 – Donald Ramotar, former President of Guyana from 2011-2015
• 1952 Jeff Goldblum, American actor
• 1962 – Bob Odenkirk, American comedian, actor, comedy writer, producer, and director
• 1963 – Brian Boitano, American Olympic champion ice skater
• 1963 – Norm Fisher, Canadian musician
• 1964 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (d. 1993)
• 1966 - Valeria Golino, Italian film actress
• 1967 – Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer
• 1967 – Ulrike Maier, Austrian female national skier (d. 1994)
• 1967 – Carlos Mencía, American comedian, actor, and voice actor
• 1968 – Shaggy is a Jamaican-born American musician and producer.
• 1969 – Spike Jonze, American director, filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor
• 1970 – Winston Bogarde, Dutch national football player
• 1971 - Amanda Coetzer is the most successful South African female tennis player
• 1973 - Andrés Palop is a Spanish football player.
• 1973 – Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
• 1975 Jesse Tyler Ferguson, American actor
• 1975 – Michel Salgado, Spanish former football player
• 1976 – Laidback Luke, Filipino-Dutch DJ and producer
• 1979 - Deivid, Brazilian football player
• 1979 - Doni is a former Brazilian football player.
• 1980 – Şahan Gökbakar, Turkish comedian
• 1982 – Mark Renshaw, Australian retired professional road cyclist
• 1982 – Alican Yücesoy, Turkish cinema, theater and TV series actor
• 1984 – Aleks Marić, Serbian-Australian professional basketball player
• 1984 – Anca Pop, Romanian-Canadian singer (d. 2018)
• 1985 – Hadise, Turkish-Belgian singer
• 1986 – Ștefan Radu, Romanian national left-back
• 1986 – Akihiro Sato, Japanese football player
• 1987 – Tiki Gelana, Ethiopian long-distance runner
• 1987 – Donny Montell, Lithuanian singer
• 1988 – Aykut Demir, Turkish football player
• 1992 – Sofia Vassilieva is an American actress.
• 1993 – Haralambos Likoyannis, Greek football player
• 1995 - Saidy Janko, Swiss national football player
• 1996 – BI, former leader of iKON, singer and songwriter
• 1998 – Roddy Ricch, American rapper

Deaths 

• 741 – Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne (b. 686)
• 1859 – Ludwig Spohr, German composer, violin virtuoso and conductor, musicologist (b. 1784)
• 1882 – János Arany, Hungarian journalist, poet (b. 1817)
• 1906 – Paul Cezanne, French painter (b. 1839)
• 1916 – Herbert Kilpin, English football player and manager (b. 1870)
• 1917 – Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (d. 1863)
• 1946 – Henry Bergman, American stage and film actor (b. 1868)
• 1961 – Joseph M. Schenck, Russian-American film studio executive (b. 1878)
• 1973 – Pau Casals, Spanish cellist, composer, and director (b. 1876)
• 1975 – Arnold Joseph Toynbee, British historian (b. 1889)
• 1975 – Daniş Tunalıgil, Turkish diplomat and Turkish Ambassador to Vienna (b. 1915)
• 1978 – Fevzi Lütfi Karaosmanoğlu, Turkish politician (b. 1900)
• 1979 – Nadia Juliette Boulanger, French composer, conductor, and music teacher (b. 1887)
• 1984 – Cigerxwîn, Kurdish poet and writer (b. 1903)
• 1986 – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
• 1986 – Yeh Chien-ying, Chinese soldier and statesman who held important management positions in the 1970s and 1980s (b. 1897)
• 1987 – Lino Ventura, Italian-French actor (b. 1919)
• 1988 – Esat Oktay Yıldıran, Turkish soldier (b. 1949)
• 1990 – Louis Althusser, French philosopher (b. 1918)
• 1993 – Bahtiyar Aydın, Turkish soldier (b. 1946)
• 1995 – Kingsley Amis, English writer (b. 1922)
• 1998 – Eric Ambler, English novelist (author of Sunshine) (b. 1909)
• 2002 – Richard Helms, CIA director from June 1966 to February 1973 (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Robert Nixon, English illustrator (b. 1939)
• 2003 – Derya Arbaş, Turkish actress (b. 1968)
• 2011 – Sultan bin Abdulaziz, crown prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Russell Means, American activist, actor, and author (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Kadri Özcan, Turkish national football player and coach (b. 1952)
• 2015 – Çetin Altan, Turkish writer, journalist and politician (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Louis Jung, French centrist politician (b. 1917)
• 2015 – Nurhan Karadağ, Turkish academician, director, dramaturg and actor (b. 1943)
• 2015 – Yılmaz Köksal, Turkish cinema and TV series actor (b. 1939)
• 2016 – Anthony Bryer, British historian and Byzantium (b. 1937)
• 2016 – Steve Dillon, English illustrator and animator (b. 1962)
• 2016 – Valeriya Zaklunna, Ukrainian politician and actress (b. 1942)
• 2016 – Burcu Taşbaş, Turkish female basketball player (b. 1989)
• 2017 – Patricia Llewellyn, British female television producer and executive (b. 1962)
• 2017 – Fernand Picot, French former cyclist (b.1930)
• 2017 – Daisy Berkowitz, American musician (b. 1968)
• 2017 – Paul J. Weitz, American naval officer, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and former NASA astronaut (b. 1932)
• 2018 – Gilberto Benetton, Italian businessman (b. 1941)
• 2018 – Horacio Cardo, Argentine painter and illustrator (b. 1944)
• 2019 – Manfred Bruns, German lawyer and human rights activist (b. 1934)
• 2019 – Til Gardeniers-Berendsen, Dutch politician, editor-in-chief and minister (b. 1925)
• 2019 – Ole Henrik Laub, Danish short story, children's book writer, novelist and illustrator (b. 1937)
• 2019 – Rolando Panerai, Italian opera singer (b. 1924)
• 2019 – Marieke Vervoort, Belgian Paralympic female athlete (b. 1979)
• 2020 – Matt Blair, American Football player (b. 1950)
• 2020 – Şükür Hamidov, Azerbaijani officer and National Hero of Azerbaijan (b. 1975)
• 2020 – Naini Narshimha Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1944)

Holidays and special occasions 

• International Stuttering Awareness Day