TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: OCT 22
0741 Charles Martel of Gaul dies at Quiezy. His mayoral power is divided between his two sons, Pepin III and Carloman.
1721 Tsar Peter the Great becomes “All-Russian Imperator”
1746 The College of New Jersey was officially chartered. It later became known as Princeton University.
1797 The first successful parachute descent is made by Andre-Jacqes Garnerin, who jumps from a balloon at some 2,200 feet over Paris.
1836 Sam Houston sworn in as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1875 Sons of the American Revolution organized
1884 International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) worldwide, creating 24 international time zones with longitude zero at the Greenwich meridian
1906 3000 blacks demonstrate & riot in Phila
1907 Ringling Brothers buys Barnum & Bailey.
1907 Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock leads to US wide run on banks
1918 The cities of Baltimore and Washington run out of coffins during the “Spanish Inflenza” epidemic.
1928 Pres Hoover speaks of “American system of rugged individualism”
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.
1957 François Duvalier, also known as Papa Doc, became the President of Haiti.
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the missile crisis
1963 225,000 students boycott Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest
1972 Operation Linebacker I, the bombing of North Vietnam with B-52 bombers, ends.
1975 Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich was discharged after publicly declaring his homosexuality. His tombstone reads ” “A gay Vietnam Veteran. When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.”
1978 Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II; born Karol Jozef Wojtyla. The Polish-born Wojtyla was the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI died in 1523; he would become the second-longest serving pope in the history of the Papacy and exercise considerable influence on events of the later portion of the 20th century.
1979 Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi, the deposed Shah of Iran, was allowed in the United States for medical treatment. This action led to the Iran hostage crisis.
1981 The US Federal Labor Relations authority decertified the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) from representing federal air traffic controllers, as a result of a PATCO strike in August that was broken by the Reagan Administration.
1981 US national debt tops $1 trillion
1986 U.S. President Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.
1998 The United Nations announced that over 2 million children had been killed in war as innocent victims since 1987.
1998 Pakistan’s carpet weaving industry announced that they would begin to phase out child labor.
2008 India Launches its First Lunar Mission
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
