UPI Almanac for Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017

On Oct. 22, 2012, the International Cycling Federation stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles amid a doping scandal.
By United Press International  |  Oct. 22, 2017 at 3:00 AM
share with facebook
share with twitter
| License Photo

Today is Sunday, Oct. 22, the 295th day of 2017 with 70 to follow.

The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Mars and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn.


Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include Hungarian composer Franz Liszt in 1811; actor Sarah Bernhardt in 1844; comic actor Curly Howard of The Three Stooges in 1903; baseball Hall of Fame member Jimmie Foxx in 1907; actor Joan Fontaine in 1917; English author Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature, in 1919; psychologist and LSD advocate Timothy Leary in 1920; artist Robert Rauschenberg in 1925; actor Derek Jacobi in 1938 (age 79); actor Christopher Lloyd in 1938 (age 79); actor Tony Roberts in 1939 (age 78); actor Annette Funicello in 1942; actor Catherine Deneuve in 1943 (age 74); writer Deepak Chopra in 1947 (age 70); actor Jeff Goldblum in 1952 (age 65); champion skater Brian Boitano in 1963 (age 54); rapper Shaggy in 1968 (age 49); film producer Spike Jonze in 1969 (age 48); actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson 1975 (age 42); musician Zac Hanson in 1985 (age 32); Jerry McGuire actor Jonathan Lipnicki in 1990 (age 27).


On this date in history:

In 1797, the first silk parachute jump from a high altitude was made by Andre-Jacques Garnerin, who dropped in a basket released from a balloon at 3,300 feet over a Paris park.

In 1836, Gen. Sam Houston was sworn in as the first president of the Republic of Texas.

In 1929, Professor Irving T. Fisher, head of the Yale department of economics, said that the recent bearish stock market had about reached its bottom and an upward movement was in sight, increasing throughout next year. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 would begin just two days later.

In 1934, federal authorities fatally shot Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, a fugitive suspected in the so-called Kansas City massacre in which four officers were killed.

In 1938, inventor Charles Carlson produced the first dry, or xerographic, copy. He had trouble attracting investors.

In 1962, U.S. President John Kennedy announced that Soviet missiles had been deployed in Cuba and ordered a blockade of the island.

In 1966, The Supremes became the first all-female group to score a No. 1 album, with Supremes a Go-Go.

In 1978, Pope John Paul II was installed as pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

In 1983, Ten U.S. warships sailed toward the violence-wracked Caribbean island of Grenada Saturday, prompting its new Marxist leaders to mobilize their forces for a possible invasion.

In 1992, pioneer sportscaster Red Barber died at age 84.

In 2001, the Pentagon announced nearly 200 U.S. jets struck Taliban and al-Qaida facilities in western Afghanistan and disputed Taliban claims that 100 civilians died when a bomb hit a hospital.

In 2009, the U.S. Congress expanded a hate-crime law to make it a federal crime to assault someone because of sexual orientation or gender identity.

In 2010, nearly 400,000 previously secret U.S. documents on the war in Iraq were posted on the WikiLeaks Internet website. Three months earlier, more than 75,000 undisclosed Afghan conflict documents appeared.

In 2011, Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, heir to the Saudi Arabian throne, died after several years of medical problems. The prince, half-brother of King Abdullah and a longtime power in the Saudi government, was 81.

In 2012, a UPI poll indicated 53 percent of likely voters believed President Obama would defeat Republican challenger Mitt Romney in the Nov. 6 general election. Thirty-six percent said they thought Romney would be the winner and the rest were undecided.

In 2012, the International Cycling Federation stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles amid a doping scandal.

In 2013, a U.S. Labor Department report delayed almost three weeks because of a partial government shutdown said hiring was down for September but the unemployment rate dropped to 7.2 percent, lowest in nearly five years.


A thought for the day: "I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means." -- Clarence Darrow

Related UPI Stories
Trending Stories
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2017/10/22/UPI-Almanac-for-Sunday-Oct-22-2017/7071508553296/?spt=slh&or=4
www.upi.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2017-47
69642
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:QDMBBXSGMVOCNO43RZ622IPE6IHB2MWZ
<urn:uuid:68bb095f-176f-4c7e-9193-f4c497db8c3b>
2017-11-21T18:39:00Z
38.118.71.121
text/html
sha1:MNZZ6P7APSBQQCESJ7IXX6KY5ACAGDDW
<urn:uuid:d450049c-53fb-4968-a737-f1557565ba79>
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2017/10/22/UPI-Almanac-for-Sunday-Oct-22-2017/7071508553296/?spt=slh&or=4
response
<urn:uuid:d90e308a-0143-4d40-bd64-1d3e52c5f38d>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-41-215-173.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-47
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for November 2017
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf