October 22 - Proof

Proof

in the pudding.

This Day In History

1575

Founding of Aguascalientes.

1707

Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown.

1746

The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.

1797

3,200 feet above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.

1879

Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).

1883

The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.

1910

Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.

1964

Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.

1968

Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.

Famous Birthdays

1511

Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)

1734

Daniel Boone, American pioneer and hunter (d. 1820)

1811

Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)

1844

Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)

1882

Edmund Dulac, French book illustrator (d. 1953)

1903

Curly Howard, American actor and comedian, member of the Three Stooges (d. 1952)

1938

Derek Jacobi, English actor
Christopher Lloyd, American actor

1943

Catherine Deneuve, French actress

1952

Jeff Goldblum, American actor

1963

Brian Boitano, American figure skater

1968

Jay Johnston, American actor and comedian (Mr. Show)

1992

Sofia Vassilieva, American actress