Thursday, the 22nd of October, 2015 is the 295th day in 2015 and in the 43rd calendar week.
General Events:
International Stuttering Awareness Day
October 22, 2015 in the World
International Stuttering Awareness Day is celebrated on October 22, 2015. The day is intended to raise public awareness of the millions of people – one per cent of the world’s population – who have the speech disorder of stuttering, also known as stammering. ISAD is organised by three organizations: European League of Stuttering Associations, International Fluency Association and International Stuttering Association.
Stuttering is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases as well as involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the person who stutters is unable to produce sounds. The term stuttering is most commonly associated with involuntary sound repetition, but it also encompasses the abnormal hesitation or pausing before speech, referred to by people who stutter as blocks, and the prolongation of certain sounds, usually vowels and semivowels.
For many people who stutter, repetition is the primary problem. The impact of stuttering on a person’s functioning and emotional state can be severe. This may include fears of having to enunciate specific vowels or consonants, fears of being caught stuttering in social situations, self-imposed isolation, anxiety, stress, shame, being a possible target of bullying, having to use word substitution and rearrange words in a sentence to hide stuttering, or a feeling of “loss of control” during speech.
Where is the event?
Worldwide
National Nut Day
October 22, 2015 in the USA
National Nut Day is celebrated on October 22, 2015. A nut is a fruit composed of a hard shell and a seed, where the hard-shelled fruit does not open to release the seed. In a culinary context, a wide variety of dried seeds are often called nuts, but in a botanical context, only ones that include the indehiscent fruit are considered true nuts.
Nuts are an important source of nutrients for both humans and wildlife. Because nuts generally have a high oil content, they are a highly prized food and energy source. A large number of seeds are edible by humans and used in cooking, eaten raw, sprouted, or roasted as a snack food, or pressed for oil that is used in cookery and cosmetics.
Several epidemiological studies have revealed that people who consume nuts regularly are less likely to suffer from coronary heart disease (CHD). Nuts were first linked to protection against CHD in 1993. Since then many clinical trials have found that consumption of various nuts such as almonds and walnuts can lower serum LDL cholesterol concentrations.
Where is National Nut Day?
Nationwide USA
Historical Events on 22nd October:
362 – The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire
794 – Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto)
1383 – The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: A period of civil war and disorder began when King Fernando died without a male heir to the Portuguese throne
1633 – Ming dynasty fight with Dutch East India Company that Battle of southern Fujian sea (1633), Ming dynasty won great victory
1721 – Tsar Peter the Great becomes “All-Russian Imperator”
1877 – The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who were unable to support themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the Poor House
1884 – The International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C., USA adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) worldwide, creating 24 international time zones with longitude zero at the Greenwich meridian
1897 – World’s first car dealer opens in London
1926 – J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal
1953 – Laos gains full independence from France
1961 – 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights & Flemish language in Belgium
1962 – JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis
1964 – EMI rejects audition by “High Numbers”; they go on to become The Who
1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada
1981 – The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins
1983 – Two correctional officers are killed by inmates in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspired the Supermax model of prisons
1997 – Compaq testifies Microsoft threaten to break Windows 95 agreement if they showcased a Netscape icon