Pick a good/bad one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_22
No brainer choice for this atmospheric scientist/operational meteorologist:
2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
Scary, scary time. It was reported that Fidel Castro wanted Russia to pull the trigger on WW3.