Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: 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 2025. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Libra is your zodiac sign. Opal is your modern birthstone. Jasper is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: October 22
- 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.
- 1878 –The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1966 –The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
- 1999 –Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
Who were born on October 22?
- 1071 –William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet (d. 1126)
- 1809 –Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889)
- 1894 –Mei Lanfang, Chinese opera performer (d. 1961)
- 1903 –Curly Howard, American actor and comedian, member of the Three Stooges (d. 1952)
- 1903 –George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)
- 1936 –Bobby Seale, American civil rights activist
- 1947 –Haley Barbour, American politician, 63rd Governor of Mississippi
- 1960 –Darryl Jenifer, American bassist (Bad Brains)
- 1968 –Shaggy, Jamaican musician
- 1973 –Andrés Palop, Spanish footballer
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