10-22-2007, 05:05 AM
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October 22nd
741 ~ Death of Charles Martel, leader of the Franks.
1746 ~ Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter.
1836 ~ Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1844 ~ Birthday of Sarah Bernhardt, Actress.
1906 ~ Death of Paul Cezanne, Painter.
1920 ~ Birthday of Timothy Leary, writer, psychedelic drug advocate.
1943 ~ Birthday of Catherine Deneuve, Actress.
1943 ~ The RAF air raid on Kassel, a city of 236,000 people, killed 10,000, and left 150,000 homeless.
1962 ~ US President Kennedy announced that American spy planes had discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he had ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
1990 ~ The region around the Aral Sea assessed as the world’s worst ecological disaster.
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