On This Day In ...

• Oct 22 1911 – Roald Amundsen and his polar team reach the first of their food caches on the Ice Barrier. Because they are ahead of schedule, Amundsen decides to rest the men and dogs for two days.

• Oct 22 1919 – Birth of Doris Lessing, author, in Kermanshah, now Iran.
• Oct 22 1951 – Elizabeth Hay, novelist, born in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada.

• Oct 22 1811 – Franz Liszt, composer and pianist, born in Doborján, a village now part of Hungary.
• Oct 22 1883 – Metropolitan Opera in New York opens for the first time. The inaugural performance was of Charles Gounod's Faust.
• Oct 22 1947 – Concert at the Carnegie Hall, New York, by the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the orchestra's co-founder, Ethel Stark. This was the first performance by a Canadian symphony orchestra at Carnegie Hall and the first time that a woman had conducted a concert there.
• Oct 22 1973 – Pablo Casals, cellist, died in San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the age of 96.
• Oct 22 1979 – Nadia Boulanger, musician and influential teacher, died in Paris, France, at the age of 91.
• Oct 22 1987 – World première performance of John Adams's opera Nixon in China, at the Houston Grand Opera, Texas, USA, the company that commissioned the work.

• Oct 22 1871 – Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, geologist, died in London, England, aged 79. His name is associated with a graptolite, Didymograptus murchisoni, one of the important biostratigraphic markers for the Ordovician.

• Oct 22 1844 – Louis Riel, charismatic Métis leader, born in the Red River valley, now part of Winnipeg.
• Oct 22 1899 – William Joseph Christie, Hudson's Bay Company factor, died in Seeleys Bay, Ontario, at the age of 75.
• Oct 22 2010 – Helen Hunley, politician and the first female Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, died in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, at the age of 90.

• Oct 22 1988 – Ship Models, first day of a two day event.
• Oct 22 2005 – Kid Stuff: Great Toys from Our Childhood exhibition opens.
• Oct 22 2011 – Remembrance Day Exhibition: Threads of Comfort and Hope opens.
• Oct 22 2015 – Across Borders: Naoki Ishikawa exhibition opens.

This presentation has been compiled and is ©1998-2025 by
Alwynne B. Beaudoin (bluebulrush@gmail.com)
Last updated February 1, 2025