Notable Birthdays for October 22
Volney E. Howard (1809-1889) - First Attorney General in Texas.
Collis P. Huntington (1821-1900) - Business tycoon and railroad executive who invested in the building of the railroad in America.
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Stephen Babcock (1843-1931) - Inventor of the Babcock test and considered the father of scientific dairying.
Jo Mora (1876-1947) - Cartoonist and illustrator who is referred to as the Renaissance Man of the West.
Joe Carr (1879-1939) - One of the co-founders of the American Football League.
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Clinton Davisson (1881-1958) - Discovered electron diffraction during the Davisson-Germer Experiment.
N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) - Well-known painter and illustrator remembered for his artwork on book covers during the early and mid-1900s.
John Reed (1887-1920) - Journalist and communist activist.
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Parker Fennelly (1891-1988) - Comedian, stage and radio actor.
Charles Glen King (1896-1988) - Biochemist and pioneer of nutrition research on Vitamins B and C, enzymes and fats.
Marjorie Flack (1897-1958) - Author and illustrator of children's book Angus Lost.
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John "Peck" Kelley (1898-1990) - Bandleader of the Peck's Bad Boys.
George Wells Beadle (1903-1989) - Geneticist who discovered the role of genes in cells.
Curly Howard (1903-1952) - One of the Three Stooges.
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Constance Bennett (1904-1965) - Highest paid actress during the 1930s.
Karl Guthe Jansky (1904-1950) - Radio engineer who discovered of radio waves constellation Sagittarius.
Timothy Leary (1920-1996) - Psychologist and author who supported the use of psychedelic drugs.
Slater Martin (1925-2012) - NBA Hall of Fame and distinguished basketball player in the 1950s.
Ann Rule (1931-2015) - True crime author.
Bobby Seale (1936-Still Living) - Co-founder of the Black Panther Party.
Christopher Lloyd (1938-Still Living) - Actor famously known as Doc in the Back to the Future trilogy.
Annette Funicello (1942-2013) - Actress known for her role in Beach Party.
Eddie Brigati (1945-Still Living) - Singer for the band The Young Rascals.
Buzz Potamkin (1945-2012) - Director of many cartoon television shows on Cartoon Network and Disney.
Leslie West (1945-2020) - Singer, guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Mountain.
Debbie Macomber (1948-Still Living) - Best-selling author who has sold over 200 million copies of her books.
Stiv Bators (1949-1990) - Singer and guitarist for the punk rock band Dead Boys.
Jeff Goldblum (1952-Still Living) - Actor known for his roles in The Fly, Jurassic Park movies, and WICKED.
Darryl Jenifer (1960-Still Living) - Bassist for the punk band Bad Brains.
Barbara Potter (1961-Still Living) - Professional tennis player.
Bob Odenkirk (1962-Still Living) - Actor best known for his character Sal on Breaking Bad.
Brian Boitano (1963-Still Living) - Olympic figure skating champion.
TobyMac (1964-Still Living) - Christian musician and producer.
Amy Redford (1970-Still Living) - Actress and daughter of Robert Redford.
Jennifer Lee (1971-Still Living) - Writer and director of Frozen.
Accie Julius Connor (1972-Still Living) - WWE wrestler known as D'Lo Brown in the ring.
Tim Kinsella (1974-Still Living) - Lead singer of the emo band emo band Cap'n Jazz.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson (1975-Still Living) - Actor who played Mitchell Pritchett on Modern Family.
Jon Foreman (1976-Still Living) - Musician and co-founder of the rock band Switchfoot.
Michael Fishman (1981-Still Living) - Actor best known for his role as D.J. Conner on Roseanne and The Connors.
Corey Hawkins (1988-Still Living) - Actor known for his role as Dr. Dre in Straight Outta Compton.
Sofia Vassilieva (1992-Still Living) - Actress who gained famed as Eloise in Eloise at the Plaza.
Memorable Events for October 22
1746 - The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) receives its charter.
1790 - The Miami Tribe under Chief Turtle defeat U.S. troops near Kekionga.
1836 - Sam Houston is sworn in as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1844 - Followers of Baptist preacher William Miller (Millerites) prepared and waited for the Second Advent of Christ and end of the world.
1861 - The first telegraph line became operational between the east and west coast.
1881 - The Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert.
1883 - The Metro Opera House (NY City) opens.
1884 - International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts 24 Greenwich meridian time zones worldwide.
1879 - Thomas Edison tests the first electric incandescent light bulb using a filament of carbonized thread.
1885 - Baseball players secretly meet and form Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the first baseball union.
1906 - 3000 blacks riot in Philadelphia protesting a racist play.
1906 - Henry Ford becomes President of Ford Motor Company.
1907 - Ringling Brothers (Greatest Show on Earth) buys the Barnum and Bailey circus.
1916 - Suffragette Inez Milholland collapses during a speech California and dies weeks later after publicly asking “Mr. President (Woodrow Wilson), how long must women wait for liberty?”
1928 - Herbert Hoover gave a speech on "American system of rugged individualism" during his campaign.
1934 - FBI agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd in Ohio.
1936 - The first commercial flight (Pan American Airlines) flies to from the mainland to Hawaii.
1939 - NBC airs the first professional football game.
1962 - President Kennedy announces that American reconnaissance has discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba.
1963 - About 225,000 students boycott Chicago public schools protesting racial segregation.
1964 - Nuclear test are conducted underground at Hattiesburg, MS.
1967 - Charlie Finley hires Joe DiMaggio as executive VP of the A's.
1976 - NBA player Rick Barry (San Francisco Warriors) begins then longest free throw streak of 60 free throws.
1976 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ban Red Dye No. 4 after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.
1979 - The 100-millionth guest visits Walt Disney World.
1981 - The U.S. Federal Labor Relations Authority de-certifies the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) for going on strike the previous August.
1981 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved artificial sweetener.
1981 - The national debt in the U.S. reaches $1 trillion.
1983 – Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at a penitentiary in Marion, IL.
1986 - A news helicopter crashes into Hudson River during a live report in NY.
1988 - Geraldo Rivera hosts "Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground" on television.
1991 - GM announces 9 month loss of $2.2 billion.
1997 - Compaq testifies against Microsoft regarding the Windows 95 agreement.
1997 - The owner of Hustler sells the magazine to an under-age buyer in Ohio.
2008 - Google Play is launched is launched for Androids.
2009 - Windows 7 is released by Microsoft.
2012 - Lance Armstrong is stripped of his Tour de France titles for doping.
2016 - AT&T buys Time Warner for $85.4 billion.
2019 - The drug company Biogen claims to have created the first drug that slows Alzheimer's.
2020 - Goldman Sachs agrees to pay record $3 billion for their role in a corruption scandal to regulators across the world.
