October 22, 1900 (Monday)
- John Sherman, the 35th American Secretary of State (1897–1898), died in Washington, D.C.
- Edward Stettinius, Jr., the 48th American Secretary of State (1944–1945), was born the same day in Chicago, Illinois.
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)