At A Glance

18 October 2022 at a glance

Day of the week
18 October 2022 was a Tuesday.
Irish Chart Song in 2022
The Irish chart song for 2022 was “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals.
Top Film of 2022
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2022 was Avatar: The Way of Water.
Star sign
The star sign for 18 October is Libra.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 18 October 2022 fell in the Year of the Tiger.
Birthstone
The birthstone for October is Opal.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 18 October 2022 was Waning Crescent.

On this day: 18 October

  • 1979 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
  • 1989 The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-34 to deploy the Jupiter-bound Galileo space probe.
  • 1991 The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
  • 2003 Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada is forced to resign and leave Bolivia.
  • 2019 NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk when they venture out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller.

Famous people born on 18 October

  • Zohran Mamdani, American politician, mayor of New York City (born 1991)
  • Milo Yiannopoulos, British journalist and public speaker (born 1984)
  • Zac Efron, American actor and singer (born 1987)
  • Barry Keoghan, Irish actor (born 1992)

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Events of 2022 in Ireland

A selection from Wikipedia's '2022 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.

  • 4 February – RTÉ selected Brooke Scullion to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy in May with the song "That's Rich".
  • 24 February – The taoiseach condemned Russia's attack on Ukraine as "an outrageous and moral breach of the most fundamental principles of international law."
  • 1 April – Atlantic Technological University, comprising the three institutes of technology in the northern and western regions – Letterkenny IT, Galway-Mayo IT and Sligo IT – formally came into operation, under its president Dr. Orla Flynn.

Life in Ireland in 2022

Taoiseach

Micheál Martin

Petrol (per litre)

€1.92/L

Loaf of Bread

€1.85

Average House

€370,000

Weekly Wage

€620

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