October 22nd is

Make a Difference Day *

National Knee Day

National Nut Day

National Color Day

Smart is Cool Day

October 22 Coalition Stop Police Brutality Day *

International Stuttering Awareness Day *
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MORE! Franz Liszt, Sam Houston and Sarah Bernhardt, click

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Canada – Vancouver BC:
Color Me Rad (3-mile slime race)

Egypt – Abu Simbel Festival

Netherlands – Amsterdam:
Dockyard Festival

South Korea – Busan:
Busan Fireworks Festival

United States – New Orleans LA:
Krewe of BOO! Halloween Parade

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On This Day in HISTORY

362 – The temple of Apollo at Daphne, near Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire

794 – Emperor Kanmu moves Japan’s capital to Heian-kyō (now Kyoto)

1575 – Aguascalientes is founded in North-Central Mexico by Juan de Montoro as a postal service rest stop between Zacatecas and Mexico City

1730 – Construction completed on the Ladoga Canal, linking the Neva and Svir Rivers, Peter the Great’s project to make transporting goods to St. Petersburg safer and faster

1746 – The College of New Jersey, originally a school to train ministers, receives its charter, after moving to Princeton NJ, it was renamed Princeton University

1784 – Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska

1797 – Andre-Jacques Gamerin makes first recorded parachute jump, from 3,000 feet

1811 – Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso Franz Liszt is born

1836 – Sam Houston inaugurated as Republic of Texas’ first constitutionally elected president

1844 – Followers of William Miller face “The Great Disappointment” when Jesus Christ doesn’t return to earth, nor does the world end, on the sixth date which Miller ‘predicted’

1844 – Sarah Bernhardt born, French actress, “The Divine Sarah” has been called the most famous actress of all time – she also sculpted and painted

1879 – Thomas Edison’s successful experiments with high-resistance carbon filament

1883 – In New York, the newly-organized National Horse Show Association of America hold the first national horse show in the U.S., and the Metropolitan Opera House holds its grand opening

1907 – Panic of 1907 begins as depositors withdraw money from many New York banks

1910 – Dr, Crippen is convicted at London’s Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is sentenced to hang

1927 – Nicolas Tesla introduces a motor with one-phase electricity

1934 – FBI agents kill bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd in a shoot-out in Ohio

1954 – Federal Republic of German is invited to join N.A.T.O.

1961 – Chubby Checker performs “The Twist’ on the Ed Sullivan Show

1962 – President Kennedy informs Americans that he has ordered U.S. forces to blockade Cuba, in response to discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island

1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre refuses to accept the Nobel Prize in Literature

1965 – The Rolling Stones release “Get Off of My Cloud” in the U.K.

1968 – Apollo 7 slashes down in the Atlantic Ocean, after 163 orbits of the Earth

1976 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration bans Red Dye #4 after it is discovered to cause tumors in dogs

1981 – The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization is decertified by the federal government for its strike the previous August

1983 – New York’s Metropolitan Opera celebrates its 100^th anniversary

1986 – President Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law

1992 – First Make a Difference Day * started by USA Weekend magazine, now sponsored by USA Today to encourage people to volunteer in their communities

1995 – The 50th anniversary of the United Nations was marked by a record number of world leaders gathering

1996 – First October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality Day *

1998 – The first International Stuttering Awareness Day * is created and sponsored by International Stuttering Association

2010 – The International Space Station sets 3,641-day record for longest continuous human occupation of space

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Visuals

• National Color Day header
• International flags
• Heian-Jingu Shrine, replica section of Heian period Imperial Palace of Emperor Kamnu
• Library of the College of New Jersey (Princeton) post card
• Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra card – Harvard Theatre Collection
• The Old Met – built in 1883, demolished in 1967
• British commemorative money and stamps for U.N. 50th anniversary
• International Space Station

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