Today is Saturday, Oct. 22, the 295th day of 2005. There are 70 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, Oct. 22, the 295th day of 2005. There are 70 days left in the year. On this date in 1962, President Kennedy announces an air and naval blockade of Cuba, following the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.
In 1746, Princeton University in New Jersey receives its charter. In 1797, French balloonist Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first parachute descent, landing safely from a height of about 3,000 feet. In 1836, Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas. In 1883, the original Metropolitan Opera House in New York holds its grand opening with a performance of Gounod's "Faust." In 1928, Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover speaks 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 is shot to death by federal agents at a farm in East Liverpool, Ohio. In 1954, West Germany joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In 1968, Apollo 7 returns safely, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean.
October 22, 1980: Exxon Corp., the world's largest oil company, says that higher crude oil and natural gas prices helped push its third quarter profits up 18.3 percent from those of a year earlier, topping $1.3 billion.
A $10 million hotel complex proposed for downtown Youngstown will receive up to $600,000 in state money for a parking garage that would adjoin the hotel, says state Sen. Harry Meshel.
McNicholas Transportation Co. will move its corporate headquarters to the former national offices of Arby's International at 4944 Belmont Ave. in Liberty, says Henry J. McNicholas, chairman of the company.
October 22, 1965: Two men break into the home of a sister and brother, Mary Kennedy, 78, and Aloysius Kennedy, 80, at 250 Arlington St. and steal more than $10,000 after binding and gagging the elderly couple. The Kennedys are heirs to P.M. Kennedy, onetime president of the Home Savings and Loan Co.
A Youngstown man, Bernard Altshuler, 31, of Youngstown is one of three men captured during a $3,500 holdup of a motel near New Orleans. Mrs. Joseph Caruso, 64, operator of the motel, was gagged, handcuffed and bound with wire by the robbers.
Youngstown Mayor Anthony B. Flask, Democrat, and his opponent, George L. Stowe, Republican, assure the Youngstown Interracial Committee that they would continue and expand human relations work in the city.
October 22, 1955: Juvenile Court Judge Henry Beckenbach orders a 17-year-old Campbell boy to sell his car after the boy admitting to driving without a license at speeds reaching 95 mph as he fled police.
The parents of five Wilson High School boys charged with beating two Struthers youths after a football game face possible jail sentences and fines if their sons don't behave. Judge Henry Beckenbach put the boys on strict curfews and warned their parents that they will be held to account if the boys get in trouble again.
Merrill F. Cooley, a business teacher at Warren G. Harding High School, is elected president of the North East Ohio Teachers Association during a convention in Cleveland.
October 22, 1930: Secretary of Labor James J. Davis commissions a government study of how much of the country's unemployment is being caused by the displacement of men by machines in manufacturing.
In keeping with Youngstown's "Confidence -- Buy It Now" campaign, Dr. J.J. Richeson, superintendent of schools, urges the 1,100 teachers and principals who attend the teachers convention at the end of the month to treat it as an educational trip, not a shopping trip. Youngstown schools need the support of the city's merchants, and the merchants should receive the support of school people, he says.
"I am ostracized by the Democratic Party in Mahoning County because I would not become a crook and a grafter," Democratic Mayor Joseph L. Heffernan tells the 57th annual convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union meeting at the First Baptist Temple.