What are the important events that happened on October 22? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 22: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 22 is the 296th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 70 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 9, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,729,555,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaenneacontahexagon’ day.
Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 99 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,323 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 22 Historical Events
- 362 –A mysterious fire destroys the Temple of Apollo at Daphne outside Antioch.
- 1797 –One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
- 1866 –A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, occurred three days before, on October 19.
- 1875 –First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
- 1879 –Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
- 1883 –The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod’s Faust.
- 1927 –Nikola Tesla exposed his six (6) new inventions including motor with onephase electricity
- 1966 –The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
- 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.
- 2008 –India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
Who were born on October 22?
- 1592 –Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1657)
- 1917 –Joan Fontaine, American actress
- 1918 –Lou Klein, American baseball player (d. 1976)
- 1925 –Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and graphic artist (d. 2008)
- 1938 –Derek Jacobi, English actor
- 1959 –Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (d. 2005)
- 1968 –Shelby Lynne, American singer and songwriter
- 1968 –Stéphane Quintal, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974 –Tim Kinsella, American musician
- 1984 –Aleksandar Marić, Australian basketball player of Serbian descent
Who died on October 22?
- 1707 –Cloudesley Shovell, Royal Navy admiral (b.1650)
- 1751 –William IV, Prince of Orange (b. 1711)
- 1906 –Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
- 1935 –Komitas, Armenian composer (b. 1869)
- 1954 –Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet (b. 1899)
- 1969 –Tommy Edwards, American singer (b. 1922)
- 1978 –John Riley, English poet (murdered) (b. 1937)
- 1986 –Jane Dornacker, musician, actress, and traffic reporter for WNBC Radio. (b. 1947)
- 2007 –Ève Curie, French writer (b. 1904)
- 2011 –Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Saudi Crown Prince (b. 1924 or 1930)
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