Daily Calendar for Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Jean Grolier (bibliophile) – 1565
Paul Cezanne (painter) – 1906
Pretty Boy Floyd (gangster) – 1934
Pablo Casals (cellist) – 1973
Nadia Boulanger (pianist) – 1979
Richard Helms (headed the CIA for 6 years before President Nixon fired him for refusing to block an FBI probe into the Watergate scandal) – 2002
Soupy Sales (American comedian, actor, radio-TV personality and host, and jazz aficionado) – 2009

The College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, was granted its charter by the royal governor of NJ – 1746
Andre Jacques Garnerin, French aeronaut and inventor of the parachute, made first parachute jump from a balloon, at height of 2,000 feet – 1797
New York’s original Metropolitan Opera House opened with a performance of Charles Gounod’s Faust – 1883
First national horse show opened in New York City – 1883
Chester Carlson produced the first xerographic copy – 1938
Percy L. Julian, Edwin W. Meyer, and Norman C. Krause received patent for cortisone – 1940
Margaret Meagher became Canada’s first female ambassador (to Israel) – 1958
Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, rejected the Nobel Prize for literature – 1964
The Kwanzaa U.S. postage stamp was first issued; Synthia Saint James did the artwork. – 1997
Fisherman caught a rare purple lobster off the coast of Winter Harbor, Maine – 2019