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Today in History: Monday, October 22, 2012
On Oct. 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy announced an air and naval blockade of Cuba, following the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.
1746 Princeton University received its charter.
1797 French balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first parachute descent, landing safely from a height of about 3,000 feet.
1844 Actress Sarah Bernhardt was born in Paris.
1934 Bank robber Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was shot to death by federal agents at a farm in East Liverpool, Ohio.
1954 West Germany joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1968 Apollo 7, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham aboard, returned to Earth.
1979 The U.S. government allowed the deposed Shah of Iran to travel to New York for medical treatment.
1981 The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was decertified by the federal government for its strike the previous August.
2002 A bus driver was shot to death in Aspen Hill, Md., in the 13th and final attack by the Washington-area sniper.
2007 China's Communist Party gave President Hu Jintao a second five-year term.
