October 22
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[edit] Events
- 1878 - The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
[edit] Debuts
[edit] Births
- 1907 - Jimmie Foxx, baseball player (d. 1967)
- 1918 - Lou Klein, American baseball player
- 1929 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (d. 1990)
- 1939 - George Cohen, English footballer
- 1943 - Allen Coage, American professional wrestler
- 1945 - Sheila Sherwood, British long jumper
- 1949 - Arsène Wenger, English football manager
- 1956 - Frank DiPino, American baseball player
- 1963 - Brian Boitano, American figure skater
- 1964 - Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (d. 1993)
- 1965 - Otis Smith, American football player
- 1967 - Ron Tugnutt, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 - Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (d. 1994)
- 1968 - Stéphane Quintal, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 - Héctor Carrasco, Dominican baseball player
- 1972 - D'Lo Brown, American professional wrestler
- 1973 - Ichiro Suzuki, American baseball player
- 1974 - Miroslav Šatan, Slovak ice hockey player
- 1975 - Míchel Salgado, Spanish footballer
- 1978 - Owais Shah, English cricketer
- 1978 - Dion Glover, American basketball player
- 1981 - Olivier Pla, French racing driver
- 1982 - Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player
[edit] Deaths
- 1917 - Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (b. 1863)
- 2001 - Prof. Dr. Dkfm. Helmut Krackowizer, journalist and motorcycle racer (b. 1922)
