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, 480,432 hours 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
- 1707 –Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown.
- 1730 –Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.
- 1797 –One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
- 1859 –Spain declares war on Morocco.
- 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.
- 1910 –Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
- 1963 –A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
- 1966 –The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
- 1983 –Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
Who were born on October 22?
- 1881 –Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1913 –Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2002)
- 1917 –Joan Fontaine, American actress
- 1939 –Joaquim Chissano, former (2nd) President of Mozambique
- 1943 –Jan de Bont, Dutch film director
- 1949 –Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (d. 1990)
- 1964 –Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (d. 1993)
- 1964 –Toby Mac, American singer and songwriter
- 1968 –Stéphane Quintal, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1992 –Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
Who died on October 22?
- 1565 –Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (b. 1479)
- 1906 –Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
- 1918 –Myrtle Gonzalez, American film and stage actress (b. 1891)
- 1934 –Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b. 1904)
- 1956 –Hannah Mitchell, English socialist and suffragette (b. 1872)
- 1985 –Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (b. 1894)
- 1986 –Jane Dornacker, musician, actress, and traffic reporter for WNBC Radio. (b. 1947)
- 1997 –Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (b. 1905)
- 2005 –Arman, French-born artist (b. 1928)
- 2005 –Tony Adams, Irish film producer (b. 1953)
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