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Thursday, October 22, 2026
Thursday, October 22, 2026 falls on a Thursday. It is day 295 of the year, ISO week 43, in Q4.
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Thursday, October 22
October 22, 2026 is day 295 of 365, ISO week 43, in Q4. The moon is Waxing Gibbous and the zodiac sign is Libra.
Day of year295
ISO week43
QuarterQ4
Days left70
Sun and Moon Cycles
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous
- Lunar age
- 11.1 days
- Illumination
- 86%
- Season
- Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, spring in the Southern Hemisphere
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- Zodiac
- Libra
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October 22
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Donatus of Fiesole
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Mellonius
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Nunilo and Alodia
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Pope John Paul II
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October 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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International Stuttering Awareness Day
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Local briefThursday, October 22, 2026 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2015: A sword-wielding man attacked students and teachers at a high school in Trollhättan, killing three people in Sweden's deadliest school attack.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to October 22.
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A sword-wielding man attacked students and teachers at a high school in Trollhättan, killing three people in Sweden's deadliest school attack.
In Ottawa, Canada, the downtown core was placed on lockdown after a series of shootings at Parliament Hill.
Bellview Airlines Flight 210 crashed in Ogun State, Nigeria, killing all 117 people on board.
TAN-SAHSA Flight 414 crashed in approach to Toncontín International Airport killing 131 out of 146 people onboard.
John Adams' (pictured) opera Nixon in China premiered.
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.
The first volume of Ian Fleming's children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was published posthumously.
Workers at the Cigar Factory in Charleston, South Carolina, began a labor strike against the American Tobacco Company that lasted more than five months.
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Richard A. Cash, American global health researcher (born 1941)
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Grizzly 399, American grizzly bear (born 1996)
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Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian philosopher, theologian and priest (born 1928)
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Lynda Obst, American film producer and author (born 1950)
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Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (born 1960)
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Peter Scolari, American actor (born 1955)
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