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Good morning! It’s Thursday, October 22. Let's explore Edison's light bulb, GMT adoption, the "Emperor of All Russia" story, the first parachute jump, Jean-Paul Sartre's Nobel Prize stand, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and much more!
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🚀 Time Machine
-1633
Chinese Ming naval forces defeat the Dutch East India Company at Liaoluo Bay in the southern Fujian Sea.
-1721
Tsar Peter the Great titled himself "Emperor of All Russia."
-1797
André-Jacques Garnerin made the first parachute jump from a hydrogen balloon 3,200 feet above Paris.
-1879
Thomas Edison invented the carbonized-cotton-filament light bulb.
-1883
New York's original Metropolitan Opera House opens with a performance of "Faust".
-1884
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) was adopted worldwide at the International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, with the Greenwich meridian set at 0 ° longitude.
-1907
Knickerbocker Trust Company stock run sparked a nationwide run on U.S. banks, resulting in the Panic of 1907.
-1957
The U.S. military suffered its first casualties in Vietnam when 13 Americans were wounded in three bombings in Saigon.
-1962
President Kennedy delivered a live TV address about Soviet missile bases in Cuba and imposed a naval blockade, starting the Cuban Missile Crisis.
-1964
Jean-Paul Sartre won the Nobel Prize in Literature, but declined it.
-1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Highway Beautification Act, which limited billboards, outdoor advertising, and junkyards along interstate highways.
-2012
Lance Armstrong was banned for life and stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for doping and pressuring teammates.
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