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Today in History: October 22
Today in History: October 22: In 1962, in a nationally broadcast address, President John F. Kennedy revealed the presence of Soviet-built missile bases under construction in Cuba and announced a naval blockade of all offensive military equipment being shipped to the island nation. In 1836, Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas. In 1928, Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover spoke of the “American system of rugged individualism” in a speech at New York’s Madison Square Garden. In 1934, bank robber Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd was shot to death by federal agents and local police at a farm near East Liverpool, Ohio. In 1968, Apollo 7 returned safely from Earth orbit, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean. In 1995, the largest gathering of world leaders in history marked the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. In 2012, cyclist Lance Armstrong was formally stripped of his seven Tour de France victories and received a lifetime ban from Olympic sports after the International Cycling Union chose not to appeal doping charges against Armstrong. In 2014, a gunman shot and killed a soldier standing guard at a war memorial in Ottawa, then stormed the Canadian Parliament building before he himself was shot and killed. In 2016, the Chicago Cubs won their first pennant since 1945, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series. (The Cubs would go on to win the World Series.)
Today in History: October 21
Today in History: October 21: A day of military might, school tragedies, and homicides. In 1797, the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as “Old Ironsides,” was christened in Boston’s harbor. In 1805, a British fleet commanded by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated a French-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar. In 1940, Ernest Hemingway’s novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls” was first published. In 1944, U.S. troops captured the German city of Aachen — the first German city to fall to American forces in World War II. In 1959, the Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in New York. In 1966, 144 people were killed when a coal waste landslide engulfed a school and some 20 houses in Aberfan, Wales. In 2013, a seventh-grader at Sparks Middle School in Sparks, Nevada, shot and killed a teacher and wounded two classmates before taking his own life. In 2014, Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide for shooting and killing his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The conviction was later upgraded to murder. In 2021, Actor Alec Baldwin was pointing a gun on a movie set in New Mexico when it went off and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza.
Today in History: October 20
Today in History: October 20. There is a lot going on today. Richard Nixon figures in a couple stories, and there are two stories involving rock bands. In 1944, General Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte in World War II, fulfilling a promise he made after being ordered to evacuate the country two years prior. In 1803, the U.S. Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase. In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist influence and infiltration in the U.S. motion picture industry. In 1967 a jury in Meridian, Mississippi convicted seven men of violating the civil rights of three slain civil rights workers. In 1973, in the “Saturday Night Massacre,” special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox was dismissed and the attorney general and the deputy attorney general resigned. In 1973, the Sydney Opera House was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II. In 1976, 78 people were killed when the Norwegian tanker SS Frosta rammed the commuter ferry George Prince on the Mississippi River. In 1977, three members of the rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed in the crash of a chartered plane near McComb, Mississippi. In 1990 three members of the rap group 2 Live Crew were acquitted by a jury in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, of violating obscenity laws with an adults-only concert. In 2011, Moammar Gadhafi, 69, Libya’s dictator for 42 years, was killed as revolutionary fighters overwhelmed his hometown of Sirte. Through history it seems October 20 has become a day of turmoil.
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