Native Americans named October’s Moon the Hunter’s Moon because it was the time to hunt in preparation for winter. Other tribes called it the Travel Moon and the Dying Grass Moon. See Almanac.com/moon-october for more information!
Daily Calendar for Monday, October 22, 2029
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Monday, October 22, 2029
Died
- Jean Grolier (bibliophile) –
- Paul Cezanne (painter) –
- Pretty Boy Floyd (gangster) –
- Pablo Casals (cellist and composer; died in San Juan, Puerto Rico) –
- Nadia Boulanger (pianist) –
- Richard Helms (headed the CIA for 6 years before President Nixon fired him for refusing to block an FBI probe into the Watergate scandal) –
- Soupy Sales (American comedian, actor, radio-TV personality and host, and jazz aficionado) –
Born
- Sarah Bernhardt (actress) –
- N. C. Wyeth (illustrator) –
- John Reed (journalist) –
- George Wells Beadle (geneticist) –
- Joan Fontaine (actress) –
- Doris Lessing (author) –
- Timothy Leary (educator) –
- Donald H. Peterson (astronaut) –
- Christopher Lloyd (actor) –
- Tony Roberts (actor) –
- Annette Funicello (actress) –
- Catherine Deneuve (actress) –
- Jeff Goldblum (actor) –
- Brian Boitano (figure skater) –
- Jonathan Lipnicki (actor) –
Events
- The College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, was granted its charter by the royal governor of NJ –
- Andre Jacques Garnerin, French aeronaut and inventor of the parachute, made first parachute jump from a balloon, at height of 2,000 feet –
- First national horse show opened in New York City –
- New York’s original Metropolitan Opera House opened with a performance of Charles Gounod’s Faust –
- Chester Carlson produced the first xerographic copy –
- Percy L. Julian, Edwin W. Meyer, and Norman C. Krause received patent for cortisone –
- Margaret Meagher became Canada’s first female ambassador (to Israel) –
- Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, rejected the Nobel Prize for literature –
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the sweetner aspartame for tabletop use –
- The Kwanzaa U.S. postage stamp was first issued; Synthia Saint James did the artwork. –
- Fisherman caught a rare purple lobster off the coast of Winter Harbor, Maine –
Weather
- Los Angeles, California, hit 100 degrees F –
- San Diego, California, reached 104 degrees F –
- Vermont received 4-5 inches of snow, the most in October in 43 years –
- Portland, Maine, received 10.53 inches of rain in 24 hours –