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On This Day

October 22

1975
First pictures transmitted from another planet: The Soviet Venera 9 transmits pictures from Venus.

1962
Cuban Missile Crisis: Pres. Kennedy announces the presence of offensive Soviet missile buildup in Cuba.

1946
Xerox: Chester Carlson of New York invents his copying method. He approached IBM with his invention, but they turned it down.

1923
World record for an hour's typing: Albert Tangora of New Jersey averages 147 words per minute. (source: Guinness Book of World Records)

1883
Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York.

1844
The end of the world: According to the religious followers of William Miller who supposedly gave away their earthly possessions in preparation for the event.

1836
First president of Texas: Sam Houston is sworn in.

1797
First parachute jump: André-Jacques Garnerin in Paris.

1746
Princeton University: College of New Jersey is founded. It was later renamed Princeton. Princeton was the first to use the word "campus" (c 1774).

1952
Jeff Goldblum, American actor. Film: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Transylvania 6-5000 (1985), and The Fly (1986).

1943
Catherine Deneuve (Catherine Dorléac), French actress, international film star. Film: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, French Film Academy Award) and Belle de Jour (1967).

1943     d. 1966
Bobby Fuller, American singer, songwriter, formed The Bobby Fuller Four. Music: I Fought the Law (1966). He died in a mysterious car accident just as the group was taking off.

1942
Annette Funicello, American actress, mousketeer.

1939
Tony Roberts, American actor. Film: Play It Again Sam (1972) and Annie Hall (1977).

1938
Christopher Lloyd, American Emmy-winning actor. Film: Back to the Future (1985, Doc) and The Addams Family (1991, Uncle Fester). TV: Taxi (Reverend Jim).

1920
Timothy Leary, American psychologist. He promoted the psychedelic experience of the '60s with his famous phrase "Turned on, tuned in, and dropped out."

1917
Joan Fontaine, British Oscar-winning actress. Film: Suspicion (1941, Oscar).

1844     d. 1923
Sarah Bernhardt (Rosine Bernard), French actress, called Divine Sarah. She is considered the first great actress to appear in a motion picture (1900). She continued her successful career after her leg was amputated in 1915.

1811     d. 1886
Franz Liszt, Hungarian composer. He is famous for his Hungarian rhapsodies.

1992     b. 1939
Cleavon Little, American Tony-Emmy-winning actor. Film: Blazing Saddles (1974, the sheriff).

1904     b. 1837
Samuel Warren Abbott, American physician, pioneer public health statistician, he published the first adequate public study in the U.S. (1900).

1831     b. 1748
William Barton, American Revolutionary officer, famous for his capture of the British general Robert Prescott in 1777. He also designed the Great Seal of the U.S. It bore a spread eagle with the motto "E Pluribus Unum" (Out of many, one).

1775     b. circa 1721
Peyton Randolph, American patriot, first and third president of the Continental Congress (1774, 1774-75).

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