About October 22
October 22, 2021 is the 295th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 70 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 102 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 22
- 362 –A mysterious fire destroys the Temple of Apollo at Daphne outside Antioch.
- 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.
- 1730 –Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.
- 1746 –The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
- 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.
- 1797 –One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
- 1844 –The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
- 1883 –The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod’s Faust.
- 1924 –Toastmasters International is founded.
- 1926 –J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
- 1928 –Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
- 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.
- 1963 –A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
- 1964 –Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
- 1968 –Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
- 1972 –Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.
- 1975 –The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
- 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.
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