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Events on 22 October

Events

• iPad Air 2 launched [2014]
• iPad Air revealed [2013]
• 200 millionth app sold on iTunes [2008]
• Grand Theft Auto III released [2001]
• Venera 9 lands on Venus [1975]
• Luna 12 launched [1966]
• Greenwich longitude adopted as Universal Time meridian [1884]
• Edison tests his electric bulb [1879]
• First human to jump using parachute [1797]

Important Celebrations and Functions

• International Caps Lock day

Birthdays

• Brewster Kahle [1960]
  Creator of WAIS and founder of Internet Archive, Alexa and other online properties
• Keith Parkinson [1958]
  American illustrator and fantasy artist
• Stanley Mazor [1941]
  Co-inventor of the Intel 4004, world's first microprocessor
• Robert Rauschenberg [1925]
  American painter and graphic artist
• Alexander Kronrod [1921]
  Soviet mathematician and computer scientist
• Karl Guthe Jansky [1905]
  One of the founders of radio astronomy
• Clinton Davisson [1881]
  Nobel laureate and discoverer of electron diffraction

Death Anniversaries

• Murphy Anderson [2015]
  American comic book artist
• George McManus [1954]
  Creator of 'Bringing Up Father' comic strip