Today In History - October 22

2136BC The Chinese make the first record of a solar eclipse
4004BC The Universe is created at 8:00 PM – according to some
4004BC The pronouncement of the Anglican archbishop James Usher
1746 Princeton University received its charter
1836 Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first elected President of the Republic of Texas
1875 Sons of the American Revolution organized
1883 The first New York Horse Show is held: Madison Square Garden
1883 The Original Metropolitan Opera House in New York City had its grand opening: Faust
1906 3000 blacks demonstrate and riot in Philadelphia
1928 President Hoover speaks of the "American system of rugged individualism"
1934 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd is shot dead by FBI agents in Ohio
1936 The first commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii
1938 The first Xerox copy made
1939 The first TV NFL game-Eagles vs Dodgers
1949 200 people are killed in a train derailment near Now Dwor, Poland
1950 The LA Rams slaughter the Baltimore Colts 70-27
1953 Laos gains full independence from France
1954 West Germany joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
1962 JFK imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, thus beginning the missile crisis
1962 The Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center
1963 225,000 students boycott Chicago schools in a Freedom Day protest
1966 The USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon
1968 Apollo 7 returns to Earth
1973 Security Council Resolution 338: cease fire to the Yom Kippur War
1975 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus – it melts shortly thereafter
1975 The World Football League disbands
1977 International Sun-Earth Explorers 1 and 2 are launched into Earth orbit
1978 Laugh In star Judy Carne is arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession
1979 The deposed Shah of Iran arrives in New York for medical treatment
1979 Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest
1980 The New South Korean constitution comes into effect
1981 The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization decertified
1981 The US national debt tops $1 trillion
1984 NFL quarterback Ken Stabler retires
1991 General Motors announces a 9 month loss of $2.2 billion

Today In History - October 22

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