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 295th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 70 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 9, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,351,520 minutes 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 ‘dihectaenneacontapentagon’ day.
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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 118 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 4,688 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.
- 794 –Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
- 1575 –Foundation of Aguascalientes.
- 1784 –Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
- 1790 –Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
- 1877 –The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
- 1879 –Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
- 1941 –World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
- 1976 –Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
- 2008 –India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
Who were born on October 22?
- 1881 –Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1900 –Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian Revolutionary (d. 1927)
- 1908 –John Gould, American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. 2003)
- 1936 –Bobby Seale, American civil rights activist
- 1948 –Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford
- 1968 –Shelby Lynne, American singer and songwriter
- 1969 –Spike Jonze, American director and film producer
- 1981 –Michael Fishman, Cuban/American actor
- 1982 –Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player
- 1992 –Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
Who died on October 22?
- 1755 –Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (b. 1694)
- 1891 –Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist (b. 1846)
- 1906 –Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
- 1917 –Robert James “Bob” Fitzsimmons, English boxer (b. 1863)
- 1935 –Komitas, Armenian composer (b. 1869)
- 2002 –Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (b. 1915)
- 2005 –Franky Gee, American singer (Captain Jack) (b. 1962)
- 2006 –Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (b. 1922)
- 2009 –Don Lane, American-born Australian television personality (b. 1933)
- 2009 –Soupy Sales, American comedian and television personality (b. 1926)
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