• Today is Tuesday, Oct. 22, the 295th day of 2013. There are 70 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Oct. 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy delivered a nationally broadcast address in which he publicly revealed the presence of Soviet-built missile bases under construction in Cuba and announced a quarantine of all offensive military equipment being shipped to the Communist island nation.
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• On this date:
• In 1746, Princeton University was first chartered as the College of New Jersey.
• In 1797, French balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin (gahr-nayr-AN') made the first parachute descent, landing safely from a height of about 3,000 feet over Paris.
• In 1811, composer and piano virtuoso Franz Liszt was born in the Hungarian town of Raiding (RY'-ding) in present-day Austria.
• In 1836, Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas.
• In 1883, the original Metropolitan Opera House in New York held its grand opening with a performance of Gounod's "Faust."
• In 1928, Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover spoke of the "American system of rugged individualism" in a speech at New York's Madison Square Garden.
• In 1934, bank robber Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was shot to death by federal agents at a farm in East Liverpool, Ohio.
• In 1962, the hit comedy album "The First Family," starring comedian-impressionist Vaughn Meader as President John F. Kennedy, was recorded before a studio audience in New York City.
• In 1968, Apollo 7 returned safely from Earth orbit, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean.
• In 1979, the U.S. government allowed the deposed Shah of Iran to travel to New York for medical treatment -- a decision that precipitated the Iran hostage crisis.

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