October 22

Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever. 

Psalm 145:2

October is:

Clergy Appreciation Month National AIDS Awareness Month National Breast Cancer Awareness Month National Car Care Month National Caramel Month National Communicate With Your Kid Month National Cookie Month National Crime Prevention Month

Celebrate Today:

Copycat Day - On his day in 1938, Chester Carlson, inventor of xerography, made the first copy in his laboratory in Astoria, New York.

Cuban Missle Crisis Anniversary - In 1962, President Kennedy demanded that the Soviet Union remove missiles from Cuba. On October 28, after days of tension, the Soviet Union announced that they would withdraw the missiles.

Journey in Faith Day - Sponsor: Seventh Day Adventist.

World's End Day - Religious leader William Miller said that the world would end on this day in 1844.

Trillion Dollar Debt Day - On this day in 1981, the U.S. national debt topped &1 trillion.

Born on this Day

• 1811: Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. Today's History Focus
  

• 1832: Leopold Damrosch was born in Russia. He was a founder of the New York Philharmonic and the father of the even-more-famous conductor Walter Damrosch.
  

• 1844: Actress Sarah Bernhardt (Bernard)
  

• 1885: Tenor, Giovanni Martinelli
  

• 1887: John Reed, American journalist, poet and revolutionary who witnessed the Russian Revolution of 1917
  

• 1896: Charles Glenn King biochemist (discovered vitamin C)
  

• 19??: Toby McKeehan (DC Talk)
  

• 1903: American biologist George Beadle (Nobel Prize-winner for medicine in 1958)
  

• 1905: Actress Constance Bennett (Madame X, As Young as You Feel, Two-Faced Woman, Topper, Sin Takes a Holiday)
  

• 1907: Baseball Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx
  

• 1913: Actress Boots (Patricia) Mallory (Sing Sing Nights, Wolf Dog, Powdersmoke Range, Carnival Lady)
  

• 1916: Baseball player, Harry Walker
  

• 1917: Actress Joan Fontaine (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Ivanhoe, Island in the Sun, Gunga Din, Emperor Waltz, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt)
  

• 1919: English author Doris Lessing (Children of Violence, African Stories)
  

• 1920: Psychologist and LSD advocate Timothy Leary
  

• 1920: Actress Mitzi Green (Elizabeth Keno) (Lost in Alaska, Little Orphan Annie, Tom Sawyer, So This is Hollywood)
  

• 1925: Artist Robert Rauschenberg
  

• 1925: Basketball Hall of Famer, Slater Martin
  

• 1930: Songwriter Dory Previn (Come Saturday Morning, It's Impossible)
  

• 1938: Actor Derek Jacobi (The Tenth Man - Hallmark Hall of Fame [1988-89]; The Day of the Jackal, I Claudius series, The Odessa File, The Secret Garden)
  

• 1938: Actor Christopher Lloyd.
  

• 1939: Actor Tony Roberts (Play It Again Sam, Serpico, Radio Days, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Edge of Night, The Thorns, The Four Seasons)
  

• 1942: Actress Annette Funicello (The Mickey Mouse Club, Beach Blanket Bingo, Back to the Beach, Beach Party, Bikini Beach; singer: Tall Paul, First Name Initial, O Dio Mio, Pineapple Princess).
  

• 1942: Football player, Cecil Upshaw
  

• 1943: Actress Catherine Deneuve (Dorleac) (Repulsion, Indochine, The April Fools, Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
  

• 1945: Singer/musician, Leslie West (Weinstein)
  

• 1945: Singer, Eddie Brigati (Rascals: Good Lovin', I've Been Lonely Too Long, Groovin', A Girl like You, How Can I be Sure, A Beautiful Morning, People Got to be Free)
  

• 1949: Hockey player, Butch Goring
  

• 1952: Actor Jeff Goldblum (The Fly, The Big Chill, Death Wish, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Right Stuff, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Silverado, Hideaway, Jurassic Park, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe)
  

• 1953: Author, Patti Davis (House of Secrets, Bondage; daughter of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and 1st lady, Nancy Davis Reagan)
  

• 1959: Movie writer-producer Todd Graff
  

• 1960: Rock musician Cris Kirkwood (Meat Puppets)
  

• 1963: Champion Skater Brian Boitano (Olympic gold medalist: men's figure skating 1988)
  

• 1965: Singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding
  

• 1966: Actress Valeria Golino
  

• 1968: Country singer Shelby Lynne
  

• 1968: Reggae rapper Shaggy
  

• 1970: Rapper Tracey Lee
  

• 1980: Actor Michael Fishman ("Roseanne")
  

• 1985: Rock musician Zachary Hanson (Hanson)
  

• 1990: Actor Jonathan Lipnicki ("The Jeff Foxworthy Show")

Events in History on this day
  

• 0304: Death of St. Philip of Heraclea
  

• 0685: Two giant pandas presented to the Emperor of Japan by the Emperor of China
  

• 0741: Charles Martel of Gual dies at Quiezy. His mayoral power is divided between his two sons, Pepin III and Carloman.
  

• 0995: First Saints canonized
  

• 1303: Election of Benedict XI as Pope
  

• 1383: Death of Ferdinand I, King of Portugal
  

• 1565: Jean Grolier de ServiÇres, French bibliophile, dies
  

• 1746: Princeton University, in New Jersey, receives its charter.
  

• 1797: French balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first parachute descent, landing safely from a height of about 3,000 feet.
  

• 1746: Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter.
  

• 1824: The Tennessee Legislature adjourns ending Davy Crockett's state political career.
  

• 1836: Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas.
  

• 1859: Spain declares war on the Moors in Morocco.
  

• 1883: New York's Metropolitan Opera House opened.
  

• 1906: French painter Paul Cézanne died.
  

• 1907: Ringling Brothers buys Barnum & Bailey.
  

• 1928: Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover spoke of the "American system of rugged individualism" in a speech at New York's Madison Square Garden.
  

• 1934: Bank robber Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was shot to death by federal agents at a farm in East Liverpool, Ohio.
  

• 1938: Inventor Charles Carlson produced the first dry, or xerographic, copy, but had trouble interesting investors.
  

• 1939: Broadcast of the 1st TV NFL game-Eagles vs Dodgers.
  

• 1954: West Germany joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
  

• 1962: President Kennedy announced an air and naval blockade of Cuba, following the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.
  

• 1964: French author Jean-Paul Sartre refused the Nobel Prize for literature.
  

• 1968: "Apollo Seven" returned safely, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean.
  

• 1978: Pope John Paul II was installed as pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
  

• 1979: The US 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 United States of America national debt tops $1 trillion.
  

• 1987: In a bid to calm the recent frenzy in the world's financial markets, President Reagan said he would be meeting with congressional leaders to negotiate ways of reducing the budget deficit.
  

• 1988: The 100th Congress adjourned in an early-morning session that produced sweeping legislation to combat drug abuse in America.
  

• 1989: Survivors of the Northern California earthquake attended church services as the clean-up and recovery efforts continued.
  

• 1990: President Bush vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1990, saying it would lead to a quota system. (The veto was upheld.) 
  

• 1991: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir warned that Israel would refuse to negotiate with any Palestinians who claimed alliance to the PLO.
  

• 1992: The space shuttle "Columbia" was launched on a ten-day mission that included deployment of an Italian satellite.
  

• 1992: The Atlanta Braves beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 7-to-2, in game five of the World Series.
  

• 1993: It was announced President Clinton would fly to Moscow the following January for a summit with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
  

• 1993: A judge in West Palm Beach, Florida, sentenced two white men to life in prison for setting a black tourist on fire.
  

• 1994: President Clinton, campaigning in San Francisco for California Democrats, demanded that schools expel gun-toting students after earlier accusing Republicans of plotting to gut his education package. 
  

• 1995: The largest gathering of world leaders in history marked the 50th anniversary of the United Nations.
  

• 1995: The Atlanta Braves defeated the Cleveland Indians, 4-3, to win the first two games of the World Series. 
  

• 1995: British writer Sir Kingsley Amis died in London at age 73.
  

• 1996: General Motors settled a three-week strike with its workers in Canada, resolving a walkout that had idled more than 46-thousand workers across North America.
  

• 1996: Thirty-four people were killed when a flaming Boeing 707 jet sliced through dozens of homes minutes after takeoff from Ecuador's Manta airport.
  

• 1996: The New York Yankees won their first game of the World Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves 5-to-2 in game three.
  

• 1997: For the first time, US inspectors discovered E. coli bacteria in imported Canadian beef, halting shipments of 34,000 pounds.
  

• 1997: President Clinton presented a modest strategy to combat global warming by gradually reducing greenhouse gases over the next two decades.
  

• 1997: The Cleveland Indians tied the World Series at two games apiece as they beat the Florida Marlins, 10-to-3, in game four. 
  

• 1998: The government announced one of the biggest toys recalls ever, advising parents to remove the batteries from their kids' "Power Wheels" cars and trucks, made by Fisher-Price, because of faulty wiring that could cause them to erupt into flame. 
  

• 1999: Five of the seven Republican presidential hopefuls met in New Hampshire for their first debate of the 2000 nomination race, with front-runner George W. Bush notably absent. 
  

• 1999: Former Vichy official Maurice Papon was expelled from Switzerland back to France. 
  

Today's History Focus

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