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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1875 –First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
- 1877 –The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
- 1878 –The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
- 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.
- 1926 –J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
- 1927 –Nikola Tesla exposed his six (6) new inventions including motor with onephase electricity
- 1928 –Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1981 –The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
- 1983 –Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
- 2006 –A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
- 2007 –Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one died in this attack. Eight Sri Lankan Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.
- 2008 –India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
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