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Today in History ~ October 22
Events1721 - Czar Peter the Great proclaimed himself Emperor ."All-Russian Imperator"
1746 - Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter.
1797 - French balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first parachute descent, landing safely from a height of about 3,000 feet.
1812 - Duke of Wellington seizes Burgos, Spain
1819 - 1st ship passes through Erie Canal (Rome-Utica)
1836 - Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas.
1861 - 1st telegraph line linking West & East coasts completed
1862 - Battle at Old Fort Wayne, Indian Territory
1862 - Confederate troops reconquer Cumberland Gap, Tennessee
1868 - Jacques Offenbach's opera "Genevieve de Brabant," premieres in NYC
1875 - Sons of American Revolution organizes
1881 - Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its 1st concert
1883 - Original Metropolitan Opera House in New York held its grand opening with a performance of Gounod's "Faust."
1884 - General Charlees Gordon receives letter of Mahdi
1885 - John Ward and several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Professional Base Ball Players, 1st baseball union
1895 - David Belasco's "Heart of Maryland," premieres in NYC
1897 - World's 1st car dealer opens in London
1904 - Russian fleet fires on British fishing ship
1906 - 3000 blacks demonstrate & riot in Phila
1907 - Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum & Bailey circus
1913 - Explosion at Dawson NM coal mine kills 263 mine workers
1917 - Leopold Stokowski leads Philadelphia Orchestra in first recording
1922 - Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, named for knight in Wagner's Opera
1928 - Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover spoke of the "American system of rugged individualism" in a speech at New York's Madison Square Garden.
1930 - 1st concert of BBC Symphony Orchestra, under Adrian Boult
1932 - George Kaufman's and Edna Ferber's "Dinner at 8," premieres in NYC
1938 - Chester Carlson demonstrates produced the first dry, or xerographic, copy, but had trouble attracting investors.
1941 - Maxwell Anderson's "Candle in the Wind," premieres in NYC
1942 - 1st ships of invasion fleet for Oran (Algeria) leave Scotland
1946 - 2 British ships sink near Albania
1951 - Earthquake hits Formosa, 100 killed
1953 - Laos gains full independence from France
1954 - West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization
1956 - France intercept Moroccan plane, arrest Ben Bella
1957 - Conrad Adenauer re-elected chancellor of West-Germany
1959 - Bob Merrill's musical "Take me Along," premieres in NYC
1962 - JFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba. JFK also imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning Cuban Missile Crisis [H]
1963 - 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest
1964 - EMI rejects audition by "High Numbers," they go on to become The Who
1964 - French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize
1968 - Apollo 7 returned safely, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean.
1973 - Israeli troops reconquer mountain Hermon
1973 - Security Council Resolution 338 -- cease fire to Yom Kippur War
1975 - Matlovich, who appeared in his Air Force uniform on the cover of Time magazine was challenging the ban against homosexuals in the US military. He was given a "general" discharge by the Air Force after publicly declaring his homosexuality.
1978 - Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession
1978 - Pope John Paul II was installed as pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
1979 - The U.S. government allowed the deposed Shah of Iran to travel to New York for medical treatment - a decision that precipitated the Iran hostage crisis.
1981 - The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified by the federal government for its strike the previous August.
1987 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky
1988 - Supreme Ct Justice Sandra Day O'Connor OK after breast cancer surgery
1989 - Khmer Rouge occupies Pailin in Cambodia
1990 - A judge in Santa Ana, Calif., ruled that a surrogate mother not genetically linked to a baby she bore for a childless couple had no right to the infant.
1990 - President Bush vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1990, saying it would lead to a quota system.
1991 - General Motors announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion
1991 - The European Community and the European Free Trade Association concluded a landmark accord to create a free trade zone of 19 nations by 1993.
1991 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir warned that Israel would refuse to negotiate with any Palestinians who claimed alliance to the PLO.
1992 - Wendy Wasserstein's "Sisters Rosensweig," premieres in NYC
1994 - Statue of Sam Houston unveiled in Texas
1996 - General Motors settled a three-week strike with its workers in Canada, resolving a walkout that had idled more than 46,000 workers across North America.
1996 - Thirty-four people were killed when a flaming Boeing 707 jet sliced through dozens of homes minutes after takeoff from Ecuador's Manta airport.
1997 - Compaq testifies Microsoft threatened to break Windows 95 agreement if they showcased a Netscape icon
1997 - Larry Flynt sells Hustler in a non-zoned area of Cincinnati
2000 - Arab leaders meeting in Egypt wrapped up a two-day summit on Israeli-Palestinian violence with a declaration that stopped short of an outright call for cutting ties with Israel.
2001 - Anthrax spores were found in a mail opening machine serving the White House. Preliminary tests on 120 workers who sort mail for the executive mansion were negative.
2001 - The Pentagon announced nearly 200 U.S. jets struck Taliban and al-Quaida communications facilities, barracks and training camps and disputed Taliban claims that 100 civilians died when a bomb hit a hospital in western Afghanistan.
2001 - An estimated 500 people were killed when the Nigerian army attacked villages throughout the eastern state of Benue. While many viewed the attacks as retribution for earlier killings of 19 soldiers, officials claimed the army acted in self defense.
Birthdays Today
1737 - Vincenzo Manfredini, composer
1809 - Federico Ricci, composer
1811 - Franz Liszt, Raiding Hungary, romantic composer/virtuoso pianist
1818 - Leconte de Lisle, writer
1832 - Leopold Damrosch, composer
1845 - Sarah Bernhardt, France, actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth)
1885 - Giovanni Martinelli, Montagnana Italy, opera tenor (NY Met)
1887 - John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions
1896 - Charles Glenn King, biochemist (discovered vitamin C)
1901 - Charles Huggins, Canada, US physician
1903 - George Beadle (Nobel Prize-winner for medicine [1958]: genetic research; President: University of Chicago; Harvard professor of genetics)
1905 - Constance Bennett (actress: Madame X, As Young as You Feel, Two-Faced Woman, Topper, Sin Takes a Holiday)
1906 - Sidney Kingsley, US playwright (One in White, Darkness at Noon)
1907 - Jimmie Foxx (Baseball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Athletics 1st baseman: World Series [1929, 1930, 1931]: Baseball Writers' Award [1932, 1933]; Boston Red Sox: Baseball Writers' Award [1938])
1913 - Bo Dai, last emporer of Vietnam
1913 - Boots (Patricia) Mallory (actress: Sing Sing Nights, Wolf Dog, Powdersmoke Range, Carnival Lady)
1916 - Harry Walker (baseball)
1917 - Joan Fontaine (de Havilland) (Academy Award-winning actress: Suspicion [1941]; Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Ivanhoe, Island in the Sun, Gunga Din, Emperor Waltz, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt)
1919 - Doris Lessing (Taylor) (novelist: Children of Violence, African Stories)
1920 - Mitzi Green (Elizabeth Keno) (actress: Lost in Alaska, Little Orphan Annie, Tom Sawyer, So This is Hollywood)
1920 - Timothy Leary, Harvard prof (LSD user)
1925 - Slater Martin (Basketball Hall of Famer: Lakers: 4 NBA championships; New York Knicks, St. Louis Hawks)
1930 - Dory Previn (songwriter: Come Saturday Morning, It's Impossible, The Faraway Part of Town [w/Andre Previn])
1934 - Donald McIntyre, Auckland NZ, Bass-Baritone (Wotan, Hans Sachs)
1938 - Christopher Lloyd (Emmy Award-winning actor: Taxi [1981-82] [1982-83], Avonlea-The Disney Channel [1991-92]; Back to the Future series, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Taxi, Star Trek III, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Angels in the Outfield, Addams Family Values, Radioland Murders, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mr. Mom, Lady in Red)
1938 - Derek Jacobi (Emmy Award-winning actor: The Tenth Man - Hallmark Hall of Fame [1988-89]; The Day of the Jackal, I Claudius series, The Odessa File, The Secret Garden)
1939 - Tony Roberts (actor: Play It Again Sam, Serpico, Radio Days, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Edge of Night, The Thorns, The Four Seasons)
1942 - Annette Funicello (actress: The Mickey Mouse Club, Beach Blanket Bingo, Back to the Beach, Beach Party, Bikini Beach; singer: Tall Paul, First Name Initial, O Dio Mio, Pineapple Princess)
1942 - Cecil Upshaw (football)
1943 - Bobby Fuller (singer, musician: guitar: group: Bobby Fuller Four: I Fought the Law)
1943 - Catherine Deneuve (Dorleac) (actress: Repulsion, Indochine, The April Fools, Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
1944 - John Wetzel (basketball)
1945 - Eddie Brigati (singer, musician: group: The [Young] Rascals: Good Lovin', I've Been Lonely Too Long, Groovin', A Girl like You, How Can I be Sure, A Beautiful Morning, People Got to be Free)
1945 - Leslie West (Weinstein) (singer, musician: guitar: group: Mountain: Mississippi Queen)
1949 - Butch Goring (hockey)
1952 - Jeff Goldblum (actor: The Fly, The Big Chill, Death Wish, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Right Stuff, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Silverado, Hideaway, Jurassic Park, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe)
1953 - Jamie Quirk (baseball)
1953 - Patti Davis (author: House of Secrets, Bondage; daughter of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and 1st lady, Nancy Davis Reagan)
1963 - Brian Boitano (Olympic gold medalist: men's figure skating [1988])
Famous deaths
0741 - Charles Martel, ruler of the Franks, dies at 63
1651 - Jacob Praetorius, composer, dies at 65
1725 - Alessandro Scarlatti, composer, dies at 65
1764 - Jean Marie I'aine Leclair, composer, dies at 67
1802 - Samuel Arnold, English composer, dies at 62
1859 - Louis (Ludwig) Spohr, composer (Faust), dies at 75
1906 - Paul Cezanne, French painter, dies at 67
1934 - Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, gangster/bank robber, shot dead at 30 by FBI in Ohio [H]
1965 - Paul Tillich, German/US Theologian (Courage To Be), dies
1969 - Giovanni Martinelli, Ital opera singer (NY Met), dies on 84th birthday
1973 - Pablo Casals, Spanish violin cellist/conductor/composer, dies at 96
1975 - Arnold Toynbee, English historian/cultural sociologist, dies at 86
1986 - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, bio-chemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937), dies at 93
1992 - Red Barber, sportscaster (Dodgers, Yankees), dies at 84
1994 - Harold Horace Hopkins, inventor (Endoscope), dies at 75
1994 - Rollo May, founder (Humanistic Psychology Movement), dies at 85
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