Today in History, 10/22

1734: Daniel Boone is born.
1746: The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
1784: Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
1797: One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump.
1836: Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1844: The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipated the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
1903: Curly Howard, Stooge Titan, is born.
1910: Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
1920: Timothy Leary is born.
1926: J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal.
1934: In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.
1938: Christopher Lloyd is born.
1942: Annette Funicello is born.
1944: At the Battle of Aachen, The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies.
1948: Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme is born. She was a member of the Manson Family who attempted to assassinate President Ford.
1942: Jeff Goldblum is born.
1962: President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American spy planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation.
1966: The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
1976: Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.

Today in History elements mostly cribbed from The History Channel, Wikipedia, The New York Times, The Jewish World Review, The Writer's Almanac and anything else I can dig up.