About October 22
October 22, 2024 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.
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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 99 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 22
- 794 –Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
- 1575 –Foundation of Aguascalientes.
- 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.
- 1746 –The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
- 1784 –Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
- 1859 –Spain declares war on Morocco.
- 1875 –First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
- 1883 –The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod’s Faust.
- 1910 –Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
- 1924 –Toastmasters International is founded.
- 1934 –In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
- 1962 –Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval “quarantine” of the Communist nation.
- 1964 –Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
- 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).
- 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.
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