About October 22
October 22, 2025 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.
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Libra is the sun 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.
What Happened On October 22
- 1383 –The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.
- 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.
- 1746 –The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
- 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.
- 1836 –Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
- 1877 –The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
- 1883 –The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod’s Faust.
- 1895 –In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse.
- 1907 –Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
- 1928 –Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
- 1963 –A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
- 1964 –Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.
- 1966 –The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
- 1968 –Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
- 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.
- 1999 –Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
- 2006 –A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
- 2008 –India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
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