Thread: Today in History October 22
#1 Today in History October 2210-22-2012, 09:20 PM
Today in History
741 Charles Martel of Gaul dies at Quiezy. His mayoral power is divided between his two sons, Pepin III and Carloman.
1746 Princeton University, in New Jersey, receives its charter.
1797 The first successful parachute descent is made by Andre-Jacqes Garnerin, who jumps from a balloon at some 2,200 feet over Paris.
1824 The Tennessee Legislature adjourns ending Davy Crockett's state political career.
1836 Sam Houston sworn in as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1862 Union troops push 5,000 confederates out of Maysbille, Ark., at the Second Battle of Pea Ridge.
1859 Spain declares war on the Moors in Morocco.
1907 Ringling Brothers buys Barnum & Bailey.
1914 U.S. places economic support behind Allies.
1918 The cities of Baltimore and Washington run out of coffins during the "Spanish Inflenza" epidemic.
1938 Chester Carlson invents the photocopier. He tries to sell the machine to IBM, RCA, Kodak and others, but they see no use for a gadget that makes nothing but copies.
1954 As a result of the Geneva accords granting Communist control over North Vietnam, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes a crash program to train the South Vietnamese Army.
1955 The prototype of the F-105 Thunder Chief makes its maiden flight.
1962 U.S. reveals Soviet missile sites in Cuba. President Kennedy orders a naval and air blockade on further shipment of military equipment to Cuba. Following a confrontation that threatens nuclear war, Kennedy and Khrushchev agree on October 28 on a formula to end the crisis. On November 2 Kennedy reports that Soviet missile bases in Cuba are being dismantled.
1964 Jean Paul Satre declines the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1966 The Soviet Union launches Luna 12 for orbit around the moon
1972 Operation Linebacker I, the bombing of North Vietnam with B-52 bombers, ends.
Born on October 22
1811 Franz Liszt, piano virtuoso.
1882 N.C. Wyeth, painter famous for his illustrations of Treasure Island and Robin Hood.
1887 John Reed, American journalist, poet and revolutionary, (Ten Days That Shook the World).
1903 George Beadle, American geneticist.
1919 Doris Lessing, novelist (Children of Violence, The Golden Notebook).
1920 Timothy Leary, American psychologist who experimented with psychedelic drugs.
1925 Rober Rauschenberg, pop artist.
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10-23-2012, 12:07 AM
1836 - Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected President of the Republic of Texas. He was later elected as the third President after Mirabeau Lamar in 1841.
1969 - Students from the University of Texas at Austin demonstrated against the environmental damage being done to Waller Creek. The demonstration was unsuccessful and the planned bulldozing related to the expansion of Memorial Stadium was carried out.
1982 - In Austin, the National Wildflower Research Center's formal charter was signed. The center opened on December 22.
2010 - The Texas Rangers became American League Champions for the first time in their history. They defeated the New York Yankees to advance to the World Series.It's not how old you are, it's how you got here.
It's been a long road and not all of it was paved.
A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. Gandhi
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