22 October

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 22 October:

1. According to the pronouncement of Anglican archbishop James Ussher made in the year 1650, the universe was created on this date in 4004 BC, at eight o'clock in the evening.
2. Born on this date in 1811 was Franz Liszt, pianist and composer often associated with fellow composer, Brahms. He began to study the Piano at the age of six and gave a number of successful concerts as a child. Liszt was a flamboyant character. He had many minor love affairs and two major ones – then at 48, suddenly decided to become a priest.
3. Born on this date in 1734 was Daniel Boone, the legendary American frontiersman and hunter who led a party to find a trail through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains. He was captured by the Indians, and adopted as a son of the Shawnee chief, Blackfish, before returning to his settlement.
4. In 1986, Jane Dornacker, a traffic reporter for WNBC radio in New York, died during a live traffic report when her Helicopter crashed into the Hudson River.
5. In 1976, The Damned released what is generally regarded as the first British punk rock single, New Rose/Help (the latter being a cover version of the The Beatles song.) It wasn't a hit. The first punk record to hit the charts was Anarchy in the UK by The Sex Pistols, released five weeks later.
6. In 1938, Chester Carlson demonstrated the first Xerox copying machine, but had trouble interesting investors. Xerox is a term coming from "xerography" meaning dry writing. The first Xerox copy, then, was made on this date. Closely followed, no doubt, by the first paper jam.
7. In 1987, a man out hunting Deer discovered an unmanned plane which had crashed into a tree. The would be pilot had crank-started it, and it had taken off without him and flown 65 miles before the tree got in the way.
8. In 1998, The Queen complained about her head being placed in smoke from industrial chimney on the new Millennium 26p Postage stamp.
9. In 1966, a leading Russian spy, George Blake, escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison, where he was serving a 40 year sentence. He scaled the wall using a home-made rope reinforced with knitting needles.
10. In 1997, The Gen Theatre in Chicago became the largest building ever to be moved on wheels as all 2,750 tons of it were put in position.

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