October 22nd, 1212

Born on October 22nd, 1212

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 297,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 781 days, exactly on September 14th, 2028, people who were born on October 22nd, 1212 will be 298,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on October 22nd?

October 22nd, 1989

TAN-SAHSA Flight 414 crashed in approach to Toncontín International Airport killing 131 out of 146 people onboard.

October 22nd, 1945

Workers at the Cigar Factory in Charleston, South Carolina, began a labor strike against the American Tobacco Company that lasted more than five months.

October 22nd, 2005

Bellview Airlines Flight 210 crashed in Ogun State, Nigeria, killing all 117 people on board.

October 22nd, 1883

The old Metropolitan Opera House in New York City (pictured) was opened with a performance of Gounod's Faust.

October 22nd, 2014

In Ottawa, Canada, the downtown core was placed on lockdown after a series of shootings at Parliament Hill.

October 22nd, 1724

J. S. Bach led the first performance of the chorale cantata Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Adorn yourself, O dear soul), based on the communion hymn of the same name, in Leipzig.

October 22nd, 2015

A sword-wielding man attacked students and teachers at a high school in Trollhättan, killing three people in Sweden's deadliest school attack.

October 22nd, 1987

John Adams' (pictured) opera Nixon in China premiered.

October 22nd, 1966

With their album The Supremes A' Go-Go, the Supremes became the first all-female group to reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart.

October 22nd, 1940

After evading Vichy French and Francoist Spanish authorities, Belgian prime minister Hubert Pierlot arrived in London, marking the beginning of the Belgian government in exile.

October 22nd, 1924

The educational non-profit organization Toastmasters International was founded at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California.

October 22nd, 1964

The first volume of Ian Fleming's children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was published posthumously.

October 22nd, 1907

A bank run forced New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations, triggering the Panic of 1907 (pictured).

October 22nd, 1895

At Gare Montparnasse in Paris, an express train derailed after overrunning the buffer stop and crashed through the station wall, with the locomotive landing on the street below.

October 22nd, 1797

Dropping from a hydrogen balloon at a height of approximately 3,000 feet (1,000 m), André-Jacques Garnerin carried out the first descent using a frameless parachute.

Public holidays on October 22nd

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on October 22nd.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

Yes: 1212 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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