October 22
Today in America's Present Past
1821 | Entrepreneur Collis P. Huntington was born.
1836 | Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first elected President of the Republic of Texas.
1843 | Chemist Stephen Babcock was born.
1868 | Congress: Republican Congressman James Hinds becomes the first Member of Congress assassinated while in office.
1881 | Physicist Clinton Davisson was born.
1883 | Author Thomas Mayne Reid died.
1887 | Journalist John Reed was born.
1896 | Biochemist Charles Glen King was born.
1903 | Geneticist George Beadle was born.
1907 | A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock leads to a nationwide run on banks and the Panic of 1907.
1907 | Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum & Bailey Circus.
1908 | Journalist John Gould was born.
1920 | Psychologist Timothy Leary was born.
1924 | Toastmasters International was founded.
1926 | Entrepreneur John G. Shedd died.
1928 | POTUS: Republican President Hoover speaks of “the American system of rugged individualism.”
1929 | Architect Thomas Hastings died.
1932 | Activist Anna Elizabeth Dickinson died.
1934 | The bank robber Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd was shot and killed by FBI agents.
1936 | Activist Bobby Seale was born.
1938 | Actor Christoper Lloyd was born.
1947 | Politician Haley Barbour was born.
1952 | Actor Jeff Goldblum was born.
1962 | POTUS: Democrat President Kennedy makes a live television address about Soviet missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963 | Civil Rights: 225,000 students boycotted Chicago schools in a Freedom Day protest.
1963 | Psychologist Elvin M. Jellinek died.
1975 | Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson was born.
1993 | Journalist Fred C. Shapiro died.
1994 | Activist Sandy Horn died.
2004 | Admiral Samuel Lee Gravely Jr. died.