blue water massey
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Oct. 22
1797 Andr?-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris
1836 Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas
1927 Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power
1938 1st Xerox copy made
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
Birthdays:
1734 Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer
1821 Collis Potter Huntington, American businessman, railroad builder
1844 Louis Riel, Canadian scholar and politician
1905 Karl Jansky discovered cosmic radio emissions
Deaths:
1934 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, American gangster
Thought for the day:
" The picture of health requires a happy frame of mind. "
1797 Andr?-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris
1836 Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas
1927 Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power
1938 1st Xerox copy made
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
Birthdays:
1734 Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer
1821 Collis Potter Huntington, American businessman, railroad builder
1844 Louis Riel, Canadian scholar and politician
1905 Karl Jansky discovered cosmic radio emissions
Deaths:
1934 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, American gangster
Thought for the day:
" The picture of health requires a happy frame of mind. "
