October 22: International Stuttering Awareness Day
Hubert Pierlot
- 1633 – Ming Chinese naval forces defeated a Dutch East India Company fleet in the Taiwan Strait, the largest naval encounter between Chinese and European forces before the First Opium War two hundred years later.
- 1727 – George II and Caroline of Ansbach were crowned King and Queen of Great Britain.
- 1844 – Millerites, including future members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, were greatly disappointed that Jesus did not return as predicted by American preacher William Miller.
- 1940 - After evading French and Spanish authorities, Belgian Prime Minister Hubert Pierlot (pictured) arrived in England, marking the beginning of the Belgian government in exile in London
- 2008 – India launched Chandrayaan-1, the country's first unmanned lunar mission.
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