10-22-2004, 05:46 AM
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October 22nd
1797 ~ 3,200 feet above Paris, Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first recorded parachute jump.
1811 ~ Birthday of Franz Liszt, Composer.
1836 ~ Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1844 ~ Birthday of Sarah Bernhardt, Actress.
1906 ~ Death of Paul Cezanne, Painter.
1920 ~ Birthday of Timothy Leary, writer, drug guru.
1943 ~ Birthday of Catherine Deneuve, Actress.
1943 ~ Kassel: The RAF delivered the second firestorm air raid on this city of 236,000 people, killing 10,000, leaving 150,000 homeless.
1962 ~ Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy announced that American spy planes had discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he had ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
1966 ~ The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album.
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