What Day of the Week

October 22, 2022 is the 295^th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 70 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is sábado.

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Here’s the October calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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.

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• 1746

  The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
• 1907

  Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
• 1910

  Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
• 1928

  Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2008

  India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.

• 1844

  Louis Riel, Canadian Metis Political Leader (d. 1885)
• 1873

  Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950)
• 1900

  Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian Revolutionary (d. 1927)
• 1921

  Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)
• 1938

  Derek Jacobi, English actor
• 1949

  Arsène Wenger, French football manager
• 1974

  Tim Kinsella, American musician
• 1976

  Jon Foreman, American musician (Switchfoot)
• 1979

  Doni, Brazilian footballer
• 1990

  Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor

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