OCTOBER 22 | Birthdays and Events

Notable Birthdays for October 22

Collis P. Huntington (1821-1900) - Business tycoon and railroad executive who invested in the building of the railroad in America.

Stephen Babcock (1843-1931) - Inventor of the Babcock test and considered the father of scientific dairying.

Joe Carr (1879-1939) - One of the co-founders of the American Football League.

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.

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.

George Wells Beadle (1903-1989) - Geneticist who discovered the role of genes in cells.

Curly Howard (1903-1952) - One of the Three Stooges.

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.

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.

Debbie Macomber (1948-Still Living) - Best-selling author who has sold over 200 million copies of her books.

Jeff Goldblum (1952-Still Living) - Actor known for his roles in The Fly, Jurassic Park movies, and WICKED.

Bob Odenkirk (1962-Still Living) - Actor best known for his character Sal on Breaking Bad.

Brian Boitano (1963-Still Living) - Olympic figure skating champion.

Jennifer Lee (1971-Still Living) - Writer and director of Frozen.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson (1975-Still Living) - Actor who played Mitchell Pritchett on Modern Family.

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.

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 - 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.

1964 - Nuclear test are conducted underground at Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

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. Food and Drug Administration approved artificial sweetener.

1981 - The national debt in the U.S. reaches $1 trillion.

1988 - Geraldo Rivera hosts "Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground" on television.

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.

2019 - The drug company Biogen claims to have created the first drug that slows Alzheimer's.