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Birthday October 22, 1811 Franz Liszt, Hungary, Romantic composer, virtuoso pianist |
Birthday October 22, 1811 Pianist and composer Franz Liszt is born |
Birthday October 22, 1845 Sarah Bernhardt, Actress |
Birthday October 22, 1870 Ivan Bunin, Russian poet, novelist (Gentleman from SF) (Nobel 1933) |
Birthday October 22, 1880 Joe Carr, president of the NFL |
Birthday October 22, 1887 John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions |
Birthday October 22, 1906 Sidney Kingsley, author |
Birthday October 22, 1917 Joan Fontaine, Actress |
Birthday October 22, 1919 Doris Lessing, novelist (The Golden Notebook) |
Birthday October 22, 1920 Timothy Leary |
Birthday October 22, 1920 Mitzi Green |
Birthday October 22, 1922 John Chafee, (R-RI-Sen) |
Birthday October 22, 1923 Pete Pihos, NFL end (Phil Eagles) |
Birthday October 22, 1925 Robert Rauschenberg, painter |
Birthday October 22, 1929 Dory Previn, singer |
Birthday October 22, 1938 Derek Jacobi |
Birthday October 22, 1938 Christopher Lloyd, (Rev. Jim-Taxi, Star Trek III) |
Birthday October 22, 1939 Tony Roberts |
Birthday October 22, 1942 Annette Funichello, in Utica NY |
Birthday October 22, 1943 Catherine Deneuve, in Paris (Repulsion) |
Birthday October 22, 1952 Jeff Goldblum, Actor |
Birthday October 22, 1952 Jeff Goldblum born |
Birthday October 22, 1965 173rd Airborne trooper saves comrades |
History October 22, 0000 B.C. Universe created at 8:00 PM according to the 1650 pronouncement of Anglican archbishop James Ussher. |
History October 22, 1746 Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter. |
History October 22, 1775 Peyton Randolph dies |
History October 22, 1797 Andr‚-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon (Paris) |
History October 22, 1797 The first parachutist |
History October 22, 1836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas |
History October 22, 1864 Hood at Guntersville, Alabama |
History October 22, 1883 Original Metropolitan Opera House in NY held its grand opening |
History October 22, 1903 Tom Horn is hanged in Wyoming for the murder of Willie Nickell |
History October 22, 1913 Coal mine explodes in New Mexico |
History October 22, 1914 Germans capture Langemarck during First Battle of Ypres |
History October 22, 1928 Pres Hoover spoke of `American system of rugged individualism.' |
History October 22, 1934 Pretty Boy Floyd is killed by the FBI |
History October 22, 1934 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd shot dead by FBI in Ohio. |
History October 22, 1936 1st coml flight from mainland to Hawaii. |
History October 22, 1936 Apollo 7 crew returns |
History October 22, 1939 1st TV NFL game - Eagles vs Dodgers |
History October 22, 1942 Allies confer secretly about Operation Torch |
History October 22, 1953 Laos gains full independence from France. |
History October 22, 1954 West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
History October 22, 1957 American forces suffer first casualties in Vietnam |
History October 22, 1962 JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba beginning missile crisis. |
History October 22, 1962 Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center. |
History October 22, 1962 Kennedy announces blockade of Cuba during the Missile Crisis |
History October 22, 1962 JFK announces a blockade of Cuba |
History October 22, 1964 Sartre wins and declines Nobel Prize |
History October 22, 1965 President Lyndon Johnson signs the Highway Beautification Act |
History October 22, 1968 Apollo 7 returns to Earth |
History October 22, 1972 President Thieu turns down peace proposal |
History October 22, 1973 Security Council Resol 338 - a cease fire to the Yom Kippur War |
History October 22, 1974 Yanks trade Bobby Murcer to Giants for Bobby Bonds |
History October 22, 1975 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 lands on Venus |
History October 22, 1975 Gay sergeant challenges the Air Force |
History October 22, 1975 Cincinnati Reds win 1st World Series in 35 years |
History October 22, 1979 WDW's 100-millionth guest |
History October 22, 1979 Deposed Shah of Iran arrived in NY for medical treatment |
History October 22, 1981 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified |
History October 22, 1981 US national debt tops $1 trillion |
History October 22, 1992 Baseball Hall of Fame announcer Red Barber dies at 84 |
History October 22, 2012 Cyclist Lance Armstrong is stripped of his seven Tour de France titles |