October 22: parachute jump from an aircraft, reaching Eliza Derosh and completing the Apollo 7 flight

On October 22, 1797, the French aeronaut André Jacques Garnerin made the first parachute jump from an aircraft - a balloon (the jump was made from a height of 1000 meters above one of the parks in Paris).

1883 - the Metropolitan Opera opened in New York. On the first evening, Gounod's opera Faust sounded.

1895 - a wreck at the Montparnasse train station - one of the most famous in history.

1907 - the flight of investors from the Knickerbocker Trust Company, the bank scare of 1907.

1909 - for the first time a woman - a Frenchwoman, Eliza Derosh - made a solo flight on an airplane.

1938 - american inventor Chester Carlson demonstrated his apparatus for obtaining copies of paper documents.

1955 - made the first flight of the aircraft F-105 "Thunderchief".

1964 - french philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre refused the Nobel Prize.

1968 - the flight of the American spacecraft Apollo-7 was completed. It was the first manned flight of the ships of this series.

1975 - soviet space station Venera-9 landed on the surface of Venus.

1980 - Pope abolished the verdict of 1633, condemning Galileo.

2005 - the crash of the Boeing 737 in Lagos.