Sunday, October 22, 2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY ― OCTOBER 22

October 22 is the 295th day of the year(296th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 70 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Tuesday or Wednesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Friday or Sunday (56).

NATIONAL NUT DAY 


1777 – American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.

1836 Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.

1877 – The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.

1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).


1884 – The Royal Observatory in Britain is adopted as the prime meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference.


1907 Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.


1927 Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power.


1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Charels Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd.

1941 – World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.


1943 – World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.


1946 – Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim takes place, recruiting of thousands of military-related technical specialists from the Soviet occupation zone of post-World-War-II Germany for employment in the Soviet Union.


1947 – Kashmir conflict starts, a territorial conflict primarily between India and Pakistan, having started just after the partition of India in 1947.


1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: U.S. President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.


1964 – Existentialist writer/philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but turns down the honor.

1966 – The Soviet Union launches unmanned Luna 12 to take high-resolution photos of the moon's surface.


1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.

1972 – Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.


1975 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus. 
Its orbiter was the first spacecraft to orbit Venus, while the lander was the first to return images from the surface of another planet.


1983 – Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.


1999 Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.


TODAY'S BIRTHS


1734 – Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer (d. 1820)

1811 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer (d. 1886)

1882 – N. C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator (d. 1945)

1920 Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author, LSD (d. 1996)

1921 Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1986)

1928 Clare Fischer, American pianist, composer and arranger (d. 2012)

1947 Deepak Chopra, Indian-American physician and author

1952 Julie Dash, American director, producer, and screenwriter

From Wikipedia and Googleexcept as noted.

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