Today is Saturday, October 22, the 295th day of 2011. There are 7- days left in the year.
1797 ― Andre Jacques Garnerin makes first parachute jump from balloon (Paris)
1906 ― 3000 blacks demonstrate and riot in Philadelphia
1928 ― President Hoover speaks of ``American system of rugged individualism"
1938 ― First Xerox copy made
1962 ― JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis
1973 ― Security Council Resolution 338-cease fire to the Yom Kippur War
1979 ― Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in N.Y. for medical treatment
1980 ― New South Korean constitution comes into effect
1981 ― Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization decertified
1981 ― U.S. national debt tops $1 trillion