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October 22:

Film releases
 * 1998 - What Dreams May Come, a fantasy drama film

Television series
 * 2000 - Andromeda begins airing on Global in Canada and in first-run syndication in the United States

Births
 * 1943 - Jim Baen (d. 2006), a noted U.S. science fiction publisher and editor and founder of Baen Books
 * 1952 - Yoshiki Tanaka, a Japanese science fiction and fantasy novelist best known of Legend of the Galactic Heroes and The Heroic Legend of Arslan