October 22, 1972 (Sunday)
- As Rollie Fingers struck out three batters in a row in the ninth inning, the Oakland A's beat the Cincinnati Reds, 3–2, to win Game 7 of the 1972 World Series.
- In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu met to discuss a proposed cease-fire in the Vietnam War, already discussed between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.
- Born: D'Lo Brown, American professional wrestler, in Burlington, New Jersey
- Stranded deep in the Andes on the border of Argentina and Chile without supplies, the remaining survivors of the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 made the decision to eat the corpses of those who had already died.
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)