October 22
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1279-1213 B.C. - Abu Simbel, a set of two temples near the border of Egypt with Sudan, was constructed for the pharaoh Ramesses II. Each year on October 22 and February 22, the Sun’s rays shine into the innermost chamber illuminating the statues of Ramses II, Amon Ra (the sun god), and Ra-Harakhty (god of the rising sun), leaving Ptah (god of the underworld and darkness) in the dark.1746 - John Hamilton, the Royal Governor of New Jersey officially chartered the College of New Jersey. The school is now known as Princeton University.
1797 - The first person to jump from a hot air balloon did so over Paris on this day. André-Jacque Garnerin, a Frenchman, accomplished the feat.
1836 - Sam Houston took the oath of office as the first president of newly-formed Republic of Texas.
1844 - On this day, according to those who practiced Millerism, the world was to come to an end. A man named William Miller, religious leader and founder of the Adventist church, started the Millerism movement. Some say his followers got rid of all their earthly possessions and climbed to high places so as to be saved when the world ended.
1875 - The first patriotic society in the U.S., the Sons of the American Revolutionary Sires, was organized on this day. Next came the Sons of the Revolution in 1883, followed by and the Sons of the American Revolution in 1889.
1883 - New York City’s nouveau riche built their own opera house on Broadway in Manhattan, staging its first performance this day. The new Metropolitan Opera House had three levels of thirty-six boxes. The Metropolitan Opera House was designed by J. Cleaveland Cady and remained at Broadway between 39th and 40th Streets until 1966, when a 3,700 seat, 14-story opera house was built in NYC’s Lincoln Memorial Center for the Performing Arts ... the present home of the venerable Metropolitan Opera House.
1907 - The Ringling Brothers bought out their chief rival, Barnum & Bailey Ltd., and created the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus.
1917 - Leopold Stokowski led the Philadelphia Orchestra in its first recording session -- for Victor Records.
1917 - Chu Chin Chow debuted in the U.S. at the Manhattan Opera House in New York City. The show was based (with minor embellishments) on the story of Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves. Although the Broadway run was a fairly modest 208 performances, it followed a record-breaking London run of 2,238 performances (more than twice as many as any previous musical), an astonishing record that stood for nearly forty years.
1928 - Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover delivered a speech at New York’s Madison Square Garden in which he spoke of the benefits of “rugged individualism” and announced the near “abolition of poverty.”
1934 - Bank robber Charles ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd was shot to death by federal agents on Ellen Conkle’s fifty-acre farm near East Liverpool, Ohio. Floyd was nicknamed ‘The Peoples Bandit’ because of his willingness to burn bank mortgages during robberies. This gave many people free homes and farms. He also gave money to needy families who were hit hard by the great depression.
1934 - The Terry and the Pirates comic strip debuted; it ran through Feb 25, 1973.
1938 - American inventor Chester F. Carlson made the first electrophotography (Xerox) copy.
1939 - The first televised pro football game was telecast from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. NBC’s flagship, W2XBS (later to be called WRCA, and even later, WNBC), carried the action. Brooklyn beat Philadelphia, 23-14. Allen (Skip) Walz did the play-by-play that day.
1941 - Some 39,000 Jews were killed by Romanian troops over two days in the Ukrainian city of Odessa. Many of the victims were burned to death in a public square or in warehouses that were locked shut.
1946 - Two British ships were damaged by mines in the Corfu Channel near Albania resulting in the deaths of 44 officers and sailors. The British government charged Albania with illegally laying the mines. The Albanians denied doing so, but charged that British ships were trespassing in Albanian territory. The case was the first dispute to come before the International Court of Justice, which held Albania was responsible since it had failed to notify shippers in general of the minefield in Albanian waters.
1950 - A record score in the NFL: The Los Angeles Rams stopped the Baltimore Colts, 70-27, in a regular season game.
1954 - West Germany joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1959 - Take Me Along, a musical based on the Eugene O’Neill play, Ah, Wilderness, opened on Broadway. Walter Pidgeon starred along with Jackie Gleason.
1962 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy informed the world that the Soviet Union was building secret missile bases in Cuba and that he had ordered a naval quarantine (blockade) of Cuba. He also demanded that Russian Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev remove all the missiles and their bases.
1966 - The Supremes rocketed to the top of the pop-album charts with Supremes A’ Go-Go. They were the first all-female vocal group to hit the top of the LP chart.
1969 - Top-40 crooner Tommy Edwards died of an aneurysm. He was 47 years old. Edwards was a songwriter, singer and pianist with a velvety smooth vocal delivery in the Nat King Cole/Ivory Joe Hunter style. His first songwriting success came with Louis Jordan’s hit That Chick’s Too Young to Fry. His singing success began with All Over Again and The Morning Side of the Mountain. It’s All in the Game was his biggest hit and the song for which he is best remembered. It also was the only #1 hit co-written by a former U.S. Vice President (Charles Dawes, who served under Calvin Coolidge). Other Tommy Edwards hits included Please Love Me Forever, Please Mr. Sun and Don’t Fence Me In.
1971 - Folk singer Joan Baez received a gold record for her hit, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. It turned out to be her biggest hit, peaking at #3 on the charts (October 2, 1971).
1972 - Gene Tenace hit four home runs in the Series, including two in his first two at-bats, and the Oakland A’s pulled out a dramatic seven-game win over the Cincinnati Reds. It was the first of the A’s three consecutive World Series championships and their first since 1930.
1975 - Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson said, “We were the best team in baseball, but not by much.” The World Series featured five one-run victories, two in extra innings and three on game-ending hits. In six of the seven victories, the winner trailed; four times the winning run came in the final inning. And 13 times, the score was either tied or the lead reversed. And in the seventh, played this day, a ninth-inning RBI single by Joe Morgan gave the Reds a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox and the title. It was the first title for the Reds in 35 years.
1978 - Pope John Paul II was inaugurated as Universal Pastor of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the first non-Italian Pope since Adrian VI (1522-1523), the first Polish Pope, and the youngest Pope since Pius IX (1846-1878).
1983 - Celebrating its 100th anniversary, New York’s Metropolitan Opera featured a daylong concert with some of the world’s greatest opera stars. On stage at the Met were Joan Sutherland, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti.
1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 on this day, but wrote his last name first. The signing, however, remains legal.
1987 - The revival of the Broadway smash, Cabaret, opened at the Imperial Theatre on this day. The musical starred Joel Grey, Alyson Reed, Gregg Edelman, Werner Klemperer and Nora Mae Lyng. The show moved to the Minskoff Theatre the following year and ran for a total of 261 performances.
1988 - Phil Collins’ remake of the Mindbenders’ Groovy Kind of Love was the number one U.S. single. It was parked at the peak of the pops for two weeks.
1992 - Boyz II Men set the record (pun intended) for longest-running #1 song (13 weeks). End of the Road, from the Boomerang soundtrack, broke Elvis Presley’s record, held by "Don’t Be Cruel/Hound Dog" (11 weeks).
1993 - Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov took a record ninth space walk.
1994 - Colorado Springs, Colorado opened its new airport with a 2.5 million annual passenger capacity -- about 7,000 people per day.
1996 - Firestorms covered 35,000 acres in Malibu and San Diego County and destroyed more than 60 homes. Another fire in the Los Padres National Forest was reported 60% contained.
1998 - Footloose debuted this day at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway. The musical was based on the 1984 film of the same name. Jeremy Kushnier (as Ren McCormack), Jennifer Laura Thompson (as Ariel Moore) and Stephen Lee Anderson (as Shaw Moore) danced and sang their way into the hearts of audiences for 726 performances.
1999 - Movies debuting in the U.S. this day: The Best Man, with Taye Diggs, Nia Long and Morris Chestnut; Bringing Out the Dead, with Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette And John Goodman; and Crazy in Alabama, featuring Melanie Griffith, John Beasley and Rod Steiger.
1999 - Also opening in U.S. theatres: Bats, starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Leon, Bob Gunton and Carlos Jacott; and Three to Tango, with Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, Dylan Mcdermott, Oliver Platt and Cylk Cozart.
2001 - In a speech in Belfast, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams urged the Irish Republican Army to begin disarming to save Northern Ireland’s peace process.
2002 - A ferry carrying 52 people and a shipment of oil sank in rough weather in the Caspian Sea. The Mercury II freight and passenger ferry was making its way from the port of Aktau, Kazakhstan to the Azerbaijani capital of Baku. 13 people were rescued.
2003 - The fossil of a 2.56-inch fishlike fossil from the Flinders Ranges in southern Australia was believed to be at least 560 million years old. That is 30 million years older than the previous record.
2004 - These films were new in U.S. theatres: The Grudge, with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Clea DuVall, William Mapother, Kadee Strickland, Bill Pullman, Rosa Blasi, Grace Zabriskie, Takako Fuji, Yuya Ozeki and Ted Raimi; and Surviving Christmas, starring Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate, Catherine O'Hara, Jennifer Morrison, Josh Zuckerman, Bill Macy, Danielle Panabaker and Bryan Fisher.
2004 - A videotape of Margaret Hassan, the kidnapped director of CARE International in Iraq, appeared on Al-Jazeera, weeping and pleading with British PM Tony Blair to withdraw troops from Iraq “and not bring them to Baghdad” because “this might be my last hours.” (Hassan was murdered Nov 16, 2004. Reports on June 5, 2006 said an Iraqi man -- Mustafa Salman al-Jubouri -- had been sentenced to life imprisonment in connection with her abduction and murder.)
2005 - Tropical storm Alpha formed in the Caribbean, threatening the island of Hispaniola. Alpha was the record-breaking 22nd named storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
2006 - Voters in Panama approved a $5.25 billion referendum to expand the Panama Canal. The eight-year project was the largest modernization plan in the history of the canal and was expected to create some 7,000 jobs.
2007 - The U.S. gave dozens of military helicopters to Pakistan to help fight extremism and provide humanitarian relief in the region.
2007 - U.S. investment bank Bear Stearns announced an alliance with Citic Securities, China’s largest brokerage firm.
2008 - Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains opened in the U.S. The documentary (about survivors of a 1972 Andes plane) features Roberto Francois, Roy Harley, Nando Parrado and Antonio Vizintin.
2008 - The Canadian dollar dropped to its lowest level versus the U.S. dollar in more than three years. Falling oil prices and a rising greenback combined to put the loonie below 80 U.S. cents.
2008 - The DJIA tumbled 514.45 to close at 8519.21, one of its all-time biggest point drops (to that time), as investors believed that the global economy was on its way into a deep recession.
2009 - Microsoft offered the Windows 7 personal computer operating system for sale. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer unveiled the new operating system at a launch event in Manhattan.
2009 - The Obama administration said it was designating over 200,000 square miles in Alaska and off its coast as a protected habitat for polar bears.
2010 - Movies opening in U.S. theatres: Hereafter, starring Matt Damon, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jay Mohr, Cécile De France and Lyndsey Marshal; and Rising Stars, with Fisher Stevens, Barry Corbin, Catherine Mary Stewart, Graham Patrick Martin, Kyle Riabko and 50 others.
2010 - The WikiLeaks Web site released 391,831 Iraq war logs in the biggest leak of secret information in U.S. history. The documents dated from the start of 2004 to Jan 1, 2010 and suggested that far more Iraqis had died following the American-led invasion of 2003. Accounts of civilian deaths included deaths unknown or unreported -- as many as 15,000 by the count of one independent research group.
2012 - The third and final U.S. presidential race debate was held at Lynn University in Boca Raton, FL. President Obama and Mitt Romney focused on foreign policy, although both candidates slipped in references to domestic issues.
2012 - Russia’s pro-government news channel NTV aired a documentary titled Anatomy of a Protest 2, which reported that Leonid Razvozzhayev, a government opponent, had turned himself in and confessed to orchestrating riots. Razvozzhayev’s supporters reported, however, that Razvozzhayev had been kidnapped in Ukraine by Russian security officers outside a U.N. office where he was going to apply for political asylum.
2013 - A U.S. federal judge ordered marshals to lock up TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau for failing to pay a $37 million civil judgement. The FTC had won the judgement after accusing Trudeau of hoodwinking viewers about his weight-loss books. On March 17, 2014, after spending four months in jail for contempt of court, Trudeau was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
2013 - Western countries accused China of arresting activists, curbing Internet use and suppressing ethnic minorities, as the United Nations formally reviewed China’s rights record for the first time since Xi Jinping became president.
2014 - The European Parliament awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Congolese gynaecological surgeon Dr. Denis Mukwege for risking his life to treat women and end the use of mass rape as a weapon of war.
2014 - Some 200 protesters marched to the home of the Hong Kong’s Beijing-backed leader to push their case for greater democracy. The protest came a day after talks between student leaders and senior officials failed to break the ongoing deadlock.
2015 - The Watts Bar plant in Tennessee was the first new nuclear facility to be licensed in the U.S. in 20 years.
2015 - U.S. safety regulators said 8 people had died and 98 had been injured by exploding air bag inflators made by Takata Corp. As of Oct. 9, 2015, just 22.5% of the 23.4 million Takata airbags under recall in more than 19 million older U.S. cars had been replaced.
2016 - An Egyptian court confirmed the 20-year prison sentence of former president Mohamed Mursi. He had been convicted because of the killings of protesters during demonstrations in 2012. Twenty-year jail sentences were also confirmed against other senior figures from the then-ruling Muslim Brotherhood, including Mohamed el-Beltagy and Essam el-Erian.
2016 - Police in Spain said they have arrested 21 people and freed four women while breaking up a human trafficking ring. The plight of the sex workers was revealed when police were tipped that women were being forced into prostitution and drug-taking in several strip clubs.
2017 - Northern California appeared to be going up in flames as the Atlas Fire (near Napa Soda Springs) burned 51,624 acres and left 6 people dead. The Nuns Fire (northeast of Sonoma) burned 56,216 acres and left two people dead. The Patrick Fire (also near Napa) burned 10,000 acres with no fatalities. And the Tubbs Fire burned 36,793 acres with 22 people killed. That Tubbs fire became the most destructive wildfire in California history, burning parts of Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties.
2018 - A German man was convicted of attempted murder for poisoning baby food and putting it on store shelves in a failed attempt to extort money from supermarkets. He was sentenced in Ravensburg state court to 12 1/2 years in prison.
2018 - Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison delivered a formal apology to the victims of child sex abuse, saying the nation must acknowledge its long, painful journey and its failure to protect those kids. In a a speech which was broadcast live across the country, Morrison said the trauma suffered by victims in institutional settings from church orphanages to youth groups and schools had been “hiding in plain sight for too long.”
2018 - Hamas sentenced 17 people convicted of drug trafficking to hard labor prison terms of 10 years to life. Officers in the Gaza Strip poured gasoline and set fire to more than 1 million tablets of opioid painkiller tramadol, about 1,500 slabs of hashish and 900 grams of opium.
2019 - Veteran U.S. diplomat William Taylor told Congress that POTUS Donald Trump personally and explicitly tried to force Ukraine’s president to investigate Trump’s political opponents by withholding crucial military aid and a coveted White House meeting.
2019 - Billionaire Jeff Bezos said his space company Blue Origin had signed agreements with Lockheed Martin Corp, Northrop Grumman Corp and research and development organization Draper for development of its lunar lander designed to help NASA put humans on the moon by 2024.
2020 - In their final presidential campaign debate POTUS Trump and former V.P. Joe Biden squared off on the COVID-19 pandemic, the economy, climate change, race and the nature of presidential leadership itself. The event, 12 days out from the election, was toned down significantly from their first debate.
2020 - A second federal court blocked Trump’s attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants by changing census numbers.
2020 - Utah reported a new record number of COVID-19 cases. Governor Gary Hart pleaded with people to adhere to mask mandates.
2020 - Edward Snowden was granted permanent residency in Russia. The former contractor with the U.S. National Security Agency had been living in Russia since 2013 to escape prosecution in the U.S. (He had leaked classified documents detailing government surveillance programs.)
2021 - New York City began requiring all city employees to be vaccinated. This, in a bid to end the “COVID era.” General Electric announced that it would be ordering all its U.S. workers to be vaccinated. And Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker issued an executive order requiring workers in licensed day care centers to be vaccinated or undergo weekly testing.
2021 - Members of the Trump administration clashed with the congressional committee investigating the January insurrection. The committee recommended that former White House advisor Steve Bannon be held in contempt after he ignored their requests for cooperation.
2021 - The U.S. budget deficit totaled $2.77 trillion for 2021, the second highest ever, but an improvement from the all-time high of $3.13 trillion reached in 2020.
2021 - Dune was released in the U.S. The two-part movie is an adaptation of the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert that follows Paul Atreides and his family as they are thrust into a war for the deadly and inhospitable desert planet Arrakis. The cast includes Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, David Dastmalchian, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem. Other new films seen in the U.S. this day included the animated Ron’s Gone Wrong, featuring characters voiced by Zach Galifianakis, Jack Dylan Grazer, Olivia Colman and Ed Helms; The Estate, with Antoine Chain, Sébastien Drouet and Julie Judd; Every Last One of Them, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Paul Sloan and Jake Weber; and The French Dispatch, with Léa Seydoux, Timothée Chalamet and Christoph Waltz.
2022 - Hundreds of thousands of people in central and western Ukraine were without power following intensified Russian attacks. Targeted drone attacks were being used to damage critical power stations, infrastructure hubs, and water supply systems. While Ukrainian officials said it had successfully shot down 18 out of 36 Russian cruise missiles, critical infrastructure was damaged throughout many large cities. A barrage of rockets also targeted the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, though they were successfully shot down.
2022 - Far-right political leader Giorgia Meloni was sworn in as the new prime minister of Italy, making her the first female to hold the position and securing Italy’s most hard-right government since World War II.
2022 - Spotify said Taylor Swift had become the platform’s most-streamed artist in a single day following the release of the star’s newest album, Midnights. The album also broke Spotify’s record for the most-streamed album in a single day. Midnights was the artist’s tenth studio album and first since 2020.
2023 - Friends and family gathered at a packed funeral service to honor the legacy of Samantha Woll, president of the board of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in Detroit. Her body had been found with multiple stab wounds on Oct 21.
2023 - Although the Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s hallmark student loan forgiveness program, his administration had found ways to cancel billions in debt. The cancellations came through existing federal student loan forgiveness programs, which are limited to specific categories of borrowers, such as public-sector workers, people defrauded by for-profit colleges, and borrowers who had paid for at least 20 years. The Biden administration had been granting that debt forgiveness on a rolling basis and had discharged a total of $127 billion for nearly 3.6 million people to this date.
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Birthdays on This Day October 22
1811 - Franz Liszt
composer: The Hungarian Rhapsodies, Les Preludes, Orpheus, Tasso, Faust, Hungarian Fantasy, Sonata in B Minor; died July 31, 18861882 - N.C. Wyeth
artist: Mowing, The Fence Builders, Dying Winter, Nightfall; portrait paintings of Beethoven, Wagner, Liszt; bool illustrator: The Boy’s King Arthur, Robin Hood, Treasure Island; died Oct 19, 19451885 - Giovanni Martinelli
opera singer: tenor: with Metropolitan Opera for 30 seasons; died Oct 22, 19691903 - George Beadle
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [1958]: genetic research; President: University of Chicago; Harvard professor of genetics; died June 9, 19891903 - Curly Howard
comedian: The Three Stooges: Three Little Pigskins, Pop Goes the Easel, Goofs and Saddles, Wee Wee Monsieur, Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise, Higher Than a Kite, The Yoke’s on Me, Stop! Look! and Laugh!; died Jan 18, 19521904 - Constance Bennett
actress: Madame X, As Young as You Feel, Two-Faced Woman, Topper, Sin Takes a Holiday; died July 24, 19651907 - Jimmie (Emory) Foxx
‘Beast’, ‘Double X’: Baseball Hall of Famer: Philadelphia Athletics [World Series: 1929, 1930, 1031/all-star: 1934, 1935, 1936/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1932, 1933], Boston Red Sox [all-star: 1936-1941/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1938], Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Blue Jays; died July 21, 19671908 - John Sutton
actor: Danger Zone, The Canadians, Return of the Fly, The Amazon Trader, Captain Pirate, David and Bathsheba, Bagdad; died Jul 10, 19631913 - Boots (Patricia) Mallory
actress: Sing Sing Nights, Wolf Dog, Powdersmoke Range, Carnival Lady; died Dec 1, 19581917 - Joan Fontaine (de Havilland)
Academy Award-winning actress: Suspicion [1941]; Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Ivanhoe, Island in the Sun, Gunga Din, Emperor Waltz, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt; died Dec 15, 20131918 - Harry (William) Walker
‘Harry the Hat’: baseball: SL Cardinals [World Series: 1942, 1943, 1946/all-star: 1943], Philadelphia Phillies [all-star: 1947], Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds; manager: Houston Astros; died Aug 8, 19991919 - Doris Lessing (Taylor)
novelist: Children of Violence, African Stories; died Nov 17, 20131920 - Mitzi Green (Elizabeth Keno)
actress: Lost in Alaska, Little Orphan Annie, Tom Sawyer, So This is Hollywood; died May 24, 19691920 - Timothy Leary
psychologist, professor: Harvard; 1960s icon: promoted the use of LSD in the search of political and spiritual freedom; died May 31, 19961925 - Slater Martin
Basketball Hall of Famer: Lakers: 4 NBA championships; New York Knicks, St. Louis Hawks; died Oct 18, 20121925 - Dory Previn
songwriter: Come Saturday Morning, It’s Impossible, The Faraway Part of Town [w/Andre Previn]; died Feb 14, 20121925 - Robert Rauschenberg
artist: Monogram, Bed, Buffalo II, Tracer; died May 12, 20081936 - Bobby Seale
political activist: cofounder: Black Panthers1938 - Anna Ferguson
actress: Scary Movie 4, Anne of Green Gables, Come Dance at My Wedding, Suburban Madness, The Familiar Stranger, A Kidnapping in the Family, Terror on Track 9, Anne of Avonlea, Tokyo Cowboy1938 - Derek Jacobi
Emmy Award-winning actor: The Tenth Man - Hallmark Hall of Fame [1988-89]; The Day of the Jackal, I Claudius series, The Odessa File, The Secret Garden1938 - Christopher Lloyd
Emmy Award-winning actor: Taxi [1981-1982] [1982-1983], Avonlea-The Disney Channel [1991-1992]; Back to the Future film series, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Star Trek III, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Angels in the Outfield, Addams Family Values, Radioland Murders, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mr. Mom, Lady in Red1939 - Ray Jones
musician: bass: group: Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas: Bad to Me, I’ll Keep You Satisfied, From a Window, Little Children, Trains and Boats and Planes; died Jan 20, 20001939 - Tony Roberts
actor: Play It Again Sam, Serpico, Radio Days, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Edge of Night, The Thorns, The Four Seasons1941 - Charles Keating
actor: Harlem Aria, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Bodyguard, Awakenings, Fresno, Brideshead Revisited, Meriel, the Ghost Girl; died Aug 9, 2014
1942 - Annette Funicello
actress: 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; died Apr 8, 20131942 - Cecil (Lee) Upshaw
baseball: pitcher: Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians, NY Yankees, Chicago White Sox; died Feb 7, 19951943 - Catherine Deneuve (Dorleac)
actress: Repulsion, Indochine, The April Fools, Umbrellas of Cherbourg1943 - Bobby Fuller
singer, musician: guitar: group: Bobby Fuller Four: I Fought the Law; died Jul 18, 1966 under suspicious circumstances1944 - John Wetzel
basketball: player: Virginia Tech Univ, LA Lakers, Phoenix Suns; coach: Phoenix Suns, Portland Trail Blazers1945 - Leslie West (Weinstein)
singer, musician: guitar: group: Mountain: Mississippi Queen1946 - Eddie Brigati
singer, musician: tambourine: group: The [Young] 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 Free1949 - Butch Goring
hockey: NHL: LA Kings: Masterton Award & Lady Byng Trophy [1978]; NY Islanders: playoff/Stanley Cup MVP [1981], Boston Bruins1952 - Jeff Goldblum
actor: The Fly, The Big Chill, Independence Day, Death Wish, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Right Stuff, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Silverado, Hideaway, Jurassic Park, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe; TV spokesman for apartments.com1954 - Jamie (James Patrick) Quirk
baseball: KC Royals, Milwaukee Brewers, SL Cardinals, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, NY Yankees, Oakland Athletics1962 - Bob Odenkirk
actor: Breaking Bad, Mr. Show with Bob and David, Saturday Night Live [1987-1995], The Larry Sanders Show, How I Met Your Mother, Fargo [2014], Nebraska1963 - Brian Boitano
Olympic gold medalist: men’s figure skating [1988]1965 - Otis Smith
football [cornerback]: Univ of Missouri; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots, New York Jets, Detroit Lions1966 - Valeria Golino
actress: Escape from L.A., Leaving Las Vegas, Hot Shots! series, Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee1968 - Shaggy (Orville Richard Burrell)
singer: Boombastic, In the Summertime, Oh Carolina, Nice and Lovely, The Train Is Coming, Why You Treat Me So Bad, Big Up
1969 - Hector Carrasco
baseball [pitcher]: Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals, Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals1971 - Anthony Miller
basketball [forward]: Michigan State Univ; NBA: LA Lakers, Atlanta Hawks, Houston Rockets, Philadelphia 76ers1972 - Saffron Burrows
actress: In the Name of the Father, Circle of Friends, Deep Blue Sea, Enigma, Troy, Reign Over Me, The Bank Job, Boston Legal, My Own Worst Enemy, Law & Order: Criminal Intent1972 - Tyrone Williams
football [defensive end]: Univ of Wyoming; NFL: Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles, Kansas City Chiefs, Pittsburgh Steelers1974 - Jeff McInnis
basketball [guard]; Univ of North Carolina; NBA: Denver Nuggets, Washington Wizards, LA Clippers, Portland Trail Blazers, Cleveland Cavaliers1974 - Miroslav Šatan
hockey [right wing]: NHL: Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins, Edmonton Oilers, Buffalo Sabres, New York Islanders1975 - Jesse Tyler Ferguson
actor: Modern Family, The Class, Wonderful World, The Procession; Broadway: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee1975 - Allen Rossum
football: Notre Dame Univ; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers, Atlanta Falcons, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers1976 - Michael Barrett
baseball [shortstop, catcher, third base]: Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, Toronto Blue Jays1982 - Robinson Canó
baseball [second base]: New York Yankees [2005–2013]: 2009 World Series champs; Seattle Mariners (2014–2018], New York Mets [2019-2020]1982 - Heath Miller
football [tight end]: NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers: 2006 Super Bowl XL champs; 2009 Super Bowl XLIII champs1985 - Zac Hanson
musician: drums, piano, guitar; singer: trio [w/brothers Taylor and Isaac]: Hanson: MMMBop, Go, I Will Come to You, This Time Around1986 - Kyle Gallner
actor: Veronica Mars, Smallville, CSI: NY, The Haunting in Connecticut, Jennifer’s Body, A Nightmare on Elm Street [2010]1990 - Jonathan Lipnicki
actor: Stuart Little, Stuart Little 2, Jerry Maguire, The Little Vampire, Like Mike, Edge of Salvation, The L.A. Riot Spectacular; more1992 - Sofia Vassilieva
actress: Medium, My Sister’s Keeper, Day Zero, Eloise at Christmastime
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Hit Music on This Day October 22
1950Goodnight Irene (facts) - The Weavers
All My Love (facts) - Patti Page
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