On This Day:
Wednesday October 22, 2014 This is the 295th day of the year, with 70 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: North America North America was the first continent to achieve its current approximate size and shape.
Holidays Feast day of St. Philip of Heraclea and his Companions, St. Mellon or Mallonus, St. Abercius, Saints Nunilo and Alodia, and St. Donatus of Fiesole.
Vatican City and Holy See: National Holiday.
National Scientific Literacy Day.
Zambia: Independence Day.
Events 1746 - Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter.
1797 - French balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first parachute jump. It was made from a hot air balloon 2,300 feet above Paris.
1836 - Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas.
1883 - The original Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opened.
1907 - Ringling Brothers circus bought Barnum & Bailey Circus.
1918 - The Great Influenza Epidemic began; it was a worldwide epidemic that would eventually claim 18 million lives.
1938 - Chester Carlson invented the photocopier.
1954 - West Germany joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
1958 - The first female peers were introduced into the House of Lords.
1962 - During the Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy announced an air and naval blockade of Cuba, following the discovery of Soviet Union missile bases on the island. Over the next six days, the crisis escalated to the brink of nuclear war.
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 U.S. federal government for its strike the previous August.
1996 - The Canadian Auto Workers union ended their 21-day-long strike after reaching a tentative agreement with General Motors of Canada Ltd.
2004 - Kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan begged Britain to help save her by withdrawing its troops from Iraq, saying these "might be my last hours."
Births 1811 - Franz Liszt, Austrian composer.
1844 - Sara Bernhardt (Henriette-Rosine Bernard), French actress.
1903 - Jerome "Curly" Howard, was one of the Three Stooges, along with brothers Moe Howard and Larry Fine.
1917 - Joan Fontaine (de Havilland), American actress.
1920 - Timothy Francis Leary, American psychologist and advocate of psychedelic drugs.
1938 - Christopher Lloyd, American actor.
1942 - Annette Funicello, American actress.
1943 - Catherine Deneuve (Dorleac), French actress.
Deaths 1934 - Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, notorious American bank robber.
1973 - Pablo Casals, a virtuoso Catalan Spanish cello player; later conductor.
1986 - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937.
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