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