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 October 22
 1746:
Princeton University,
in New Jersey, received its charter. 1797: French balloonist
Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first parachute descent, landing safely
from a height of 3,200 feet. 1819: The first ship passed through
Erie Canal going from Rome to Utica,
NY. 1905: American physicist
Karl Jansky, the "Father of Radio Astronomy" who discovered the cosmic background
radiation, was born. 1934: Famous bank robber Charles Arthur
"Pretty Boy" Floyd
assumed room temperature during a run-in with the FBI. 1938:
Xerography (dry writing)
was demonstrated by Chester Carlson, thereby demonstrating the process for which Xerox owns
a trademark. 1962: President John Kennedy addressed the nation on TV about the Russian missile
bases in Cuba, marking the beginning of the Bay of Pigs
Cuban
Missile Crisis. 1968:
Apollo
7 splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times. 1981: The U.S.
national debt reached
1 trillion dollars ($32.6T
in 2023).
Note: These
historical tidbits (see daily
list) have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet.
As detailed in my
It Happened When? Factoid article, there
is a lot of wrong information that is repeated hundreds of times because most websites
do not validate with authoritative sources. On RF Cafe, events with
hyperlinks have been verified. Many years ago,
I began commemorating the birthdays of notable people and events with
special RF Cafe logos.
Where available, I like to use images from postage stamps from the country where
the person or event occurred. Images used in the logos are often from open source
websites like Wikipedia, and are specifically credited with a hyperlink back to
the source where possible.
Fair Use laws permit
small samples of copyrighted content.
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