October 22, 2012
1746 The College of New Jersey is chartered (Princeton, lol at this pic)
1784 Russia founds colony at Kodiak, Alaska
1797 André-Jacques Garnerin makes first recorded parachute jump from 3200 feet
1836 Sam Houston inaugurated as first president of Texas
1879 Edison test first practical incandescent light bulb, which lasted 13 hours (pic: Firestone, Edison, Ford, Warren G Harding and some other guy)
1926 J Gordon Whitehead punches Harry Houdini in the stomach. Houdini dies 9 days later from peritonitis from a ruptured appendix
1934 Pretty Boy Floyd shot
1957 First US casualties in Vietnam
1962 JFK orders naval quarantine of Cuba
1972 Kissinger meets with S Vietnam president to discuss cease-fire that US has agreed to with the North
1976 Red dye #4 banned in US. Red M&Ms disappear for years
Births
1734 Daniel Boone
1907 Jimmie Foxx
1920 Timothy Leary
1938 Christopher Lloyd
1952 Jeff Goldblum
1962 Saul Goodman
1974 Jeff McInnis
Deaths
741 Charles "The Hammer" Martel
1906 Paul Cezanne
1934 Pretty Boy Floyd
1992 Red Barber
2009 Soupy Sales