On this day in history
October 22
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YahrzeitsHebrew-calendar remembrances
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on October 22 this year.
- Rachel Imenu (Rachel)d. 1553 BCE
Matriarch; wife of Yaakov, mother of Yosef and Binyamin
Trace this life → - R. Nachum of Chernobyl (Meor Einayim)d. 1797 CE
Author of Meor Einayim and founder of the Chernobyl dynasty
Trace this life →
- 1965 CEChristian · died
Paul Tillich, the German-American Protestant theologian and philosopher of religion, died in Chicago.
- 1978 CEChristian
Pope John Paul II celebrated his inaugural Mass in St. Peter's Square, marking the formal start of his pontificate.
- 1938 CEScience · discovered
On 22 October 1938 Chester Carlson and Otto Kornei produced the first xerographic copy in Astoria, New York, the process that would become the modern photocopier.