Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 22

October 22: International Stuttering Awareness Day

• 1383 - In Portugal, a period of civil war and anarchy began when King Ferdinand I died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne.

• 1844 - Millerites and members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church were greatly disappointed that Jesus did not return as predicted by preacher William Miller (pictured).

• 1924 - Toastmasters International was founded.

• 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced on television that Soviet nuclear weapons had been discovered in Cuba and that he had ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.

• 1999 - Vichy France official Maurice Papon was jailed for crimes against humanity committed during World War II.

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• September 30
• October 1
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