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“There’s a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship has sailed, and that only a fool would continue. The truth is, I’ve always been a fool.”
~ Albert Finney
Wikiquote (Albert Finney (born May 9, 1936) is an English actor. Beginning in the theatre, Finney was especially successful in plays by William Shakespeare before he switched to films.)
(Albert Finney as “Ed Bloom” in Big Fish)
October 22nd, 1383
1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.
Wikipedia Photo: Lisbon, Portugal - Monument to the Portuguese maritime discoveries.
October 22nd, 1746
The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
Wikipedia Photo: Princeton University
October 22nd, 1777
American Revolutionary War:
1777 - Battle of Red Bank; American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks.
Wikipedia Paintings: Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Leutz; Battle of the Chesapeake, French (left) and British (right) lines; Battle of Bunker Hill, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill by John Trumbull; The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 13, 1782, by John Singleton Copley; Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, 1781; "The surrender at Saratoga" shows General Daniel Morgan in front of a French de Vallière 4-pounder; Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown by (John Trumbull, 1797).
October 22nd, 1784
Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
Wikipedia Photo: Kodiak Island, Alaska - rocky coast / Kodiak grizzly. credit © Karen Kasmauski National Geographics / Donna L. Huff.
October 22nd, 1797
One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
Wikipedia Photo: Felix Baumgartner prepares to skydive from an unofficial altitude of 128,097 feet (39 km) (Photo: Red Bull Stratos) ● Russian soldiers make parachute jumps during a training session during Peace Mission-2009, (Reuters) ● United States parachute jumps ● A parachute deploys as the space shuttle Endeavour touches down at Edwards Air Force Base, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008 in California. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
October 22nd, 1836
Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
Wikipedia Painting: Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto
October 22nd, 1878
The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
Wikipedia Photo: The Stade de France Stadium during World Cup Group A match between South Africa and England in 2007. Photograph: Franck FIFE / AFP.
October 22nd, 1883
Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
Wikipedia Photo: The Metropolitan Opera House at a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow">Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, seen from Lincoln Center Plaza.
October 22nd, 1907
Panic of 1907: a run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
Wikipedia Photo: A swarm gathers on Wall Street during the bank panic in October 1907. Federal Hall, with its statue of George Washington / J. P. Morgan, who pledged large sums of his own money, and convinced other New York bankers to do the same, to shore up the banking system.
October 22nd, 1926
J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
Wikipedia Photo: Harry Houdini, 1891–1926
October 22nd, 1927
Nikola Tesla exposed his six (6) new inventions including motor with onephase electricity.
Wikipedia Photo: Tesla, aged 37, 1893, photo by Napoleon Sarony; Nikola Tesla, with Ruđer Bošković's book Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis, sits in front of the spiral coil of his high-frequency transformer at East Houston Street, New York; Tesla wearing the Serbian national costume, 1880. His childhood dream was to come to America to harness the power of Niagara Falls; Tesla holding a phosphor-coated gas-discharge lamp, illuminated by wireless electricity. Colorado Springs, 1899; Multiple exposure publicity picture of Tesla sitting in his Colorado Springs laboratory with his "Magnifying transmitter" generating millions of volts and producing 7 meters (23 ft) long arcs.
October 22nd, 1941
World War II:
1941 - French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
1943 - Bombing of Kassel; second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
Wikipedia Photo: Bombing of Dresden in World War II; August Schreitmüller's sculpture 'Goodness' surveys Dresden after a firestorm started by Allied bombers in 1945.
USS Bunker Hill was hit by kamikazes piloted by Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa and another airman on 11 May 1945. 389 personnel were killed or missing from a crew of 2,600; Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa, who flew his aircraft into the USS Bunker Hill during a Kamikaze mission on 11 May 1945; Kamikaze Missions - Lt Yoshinori Yamaguchi's Yokosuka D4Y3 (Type 33 Suisei) "Judy" in a suicide dive against USS Essex. The dive brakes are extended and the non-self-sealing port wing tank is trailing fuel vapor and/or smoke 25 November 1944.
German V1 flying-bomb and V2 Rockets - Preparations for a Salvo Launch of V-2 Rockets in the Heidelager near Blizna (Poland) (1944), credit German History in Documents and Images GHDI.
Eastern Front (World War II); Germans race towards Stalingrad. August 1942; Soviet children during a German air raid in the first days of the war, June 1941, by RIA Novosti archive; Soviet sniper Roza Shanina in 1944. About 400,000 Soviet women served in front-line duty units Caucasus Mountains, winter 1942/43; Finnish ski patrol: the invisible enemy of the Soviet Army with an unlimited supply of skis; Men of the German Engineers Corps cross a river which is swollen after the first autumn rains, to strengthen bridges linking the German positions on the central front in Russia. by Keystone / Getty Images. October 1942; Russian snipers fighting on the Leningrad front during a blizzard. Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images, 1943; German soldiers surrendering to the Russians in Stalingrad, the soldier holding the white flag of surrender is dressed in white so that there could be no doubt of his intentions, a Russian soldier is on the right of the photograph. by Keystone / Getty Images, January 1943.
October 22nd, 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis: United States 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.
Wikipedia Photo: Cuban Missile Crisis: Fidel Castro and Nikita Khruschev; President John F. Kennedy; U-2 reconnaissance plane; U2 Image of Cuban Missile Crisis; Missile silo.
October 22nd, 1964
Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.
Wikipedia Photo: Jean-Paul Sartre a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, literary critic, and was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism, and one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy and Marxism.
October 22nd, 1966
The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a Number 1 selling album The Supremes A' Go-Go.
Wikipedia Photo: The Supremes.
October 22nd, 1972
Vietnam War:
1972 - In Saigon Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.
Wikipedia Photo: Vietnam_War; Side view of an HH-53 helicopter of the 40th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron as seen from the gunner's position on an A-1 of the 21st Specialist Operations Squadron. (USAF Photo by Ken Hackman), Boston Globe;
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, credit Free Republic;
Vietnam War: The Big Picture / Boston Globe.
October 22nd, 1976
Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.
Wikipedia Photo: Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
October 22nd, 2005
2005 - Images of the Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
Wikipedia Image: Hurricane Andrew sequence, NASA ● Hurricane Mitch at peak intensity (formed October 22, 1998 - Dissipated November 5, 1998) ● Hurricane Katrina taken on August 28, 2005, at 11:45 AM EDT by NOAA when the storm was a Category Five hurricane ● Hurricane Jeanne September 23, 2004, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ● PDC Global Hazards Atlas displaying 3 hour precipitation accumulation, typhoon Evan (04P), with JTWC positions, segments, and winds...over the South Pacific Ocean ● Satellite imagery provided by NOAA and taken by the Japan Meteorological Agency's MTSAT weather satellite shows Typhoon Roke as it approaches Japan, September 20, 2011. Over 1.3 million ordered to evacuate in Japan ahead of Typhoon Roke.
October 22nd, 2014
Modern conflicts in the Middle East, social unrest and terrorist attacks:
2014 - Shootings at Parliament Hill; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - attacks at the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
Wikipedia Photo: Middle East satellite image, NASA. ● Camels are seen early morning on a beach in the Marina area of Dubai October 16, 2008. (Steve Crisp, Reuters) ● A portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad burns during clashes between rebels and Syrian troops in Selehattin, near Aleppo, on July 23, 2012. (Bulent Kilic, AFP / GettyImages) ● Egyptians gather in their thousands in Tahrir Square to mark the one year anniversary of the revolution on Jan. 25, 2012 in Cairo Egypt. Tens of thousands have gathered in the square on the first anniversary of the Arab uprising which toppled President Hosni Mubarak. (Jeff J Mitchell, Getty Images) ● Black smoke rises above the Tehran skyline as supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi burn tires and other material in the streets as they fight running battles with police to protest the declared results of the Iranian presidential election in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 13, 2009. (Ben Curtis, AP) ● The Iron Dome defense system fires to interecpt incoming missiles from Gaza in the port town of Ashdod, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. (Tsafrir Abayov, AP)