OCTOBER 22
1962:The Cuban Missile Crisis becomes public knowledge when President John F. Kennedy gives a nationally televised speech alerting Americans of secretly built Soviet missile bases on the island of Cuba. Kennedy announces the United States will impose a naval quarantine around Cuba and demands that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev remove the ballistic missiles immediately.
1964: French existentialist author Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature but immediately turns the honor down, citing his desire to stay neutral in the cultural conflict of the Cold War and wishing not to be "transformed" by such an award.
1966: The Supremes, composed of Motown singers Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, and Florence Ballard, are the first all-female singing group to have an album reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album charts. The Supremes A' Go-Go will stay on the top of the charts for two weeks. The album charts will not be topped by another all-girl group until Beauty and the Beat by the Go-Go's in 1982.
1964:Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, which he declines.
1927:Nikola Tesla released six new inventions including a motor with one phase electricity.
1797:The first parachute jump of note is made by Andre-Jacques Garnerin from a hydrogen balloon 3,200 feet above Paris.
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