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Today is Monday, October 22, the 295th day of 2018. There are 70 days left in the year.
1875 — Sons of the American Revolution organized
1883 — Original Metropolitan OperaHouse grand opening (Faust)
1922 — Lucerne Street in the Bronxnamed
1922 — Parsifal Place laid out inBronx, named for knight in Wagner's Opera
1928 — Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"
1949 — 200 killed in train derailment near Nowy Dwor in Poland
1950 — LA Rams beat Baltimore Colts 70-27
1953 — Laos gains full independence from France
1954 — West Germany joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
1962 — JFK imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis
1962 — The Pacific Science Center opens at the Seattle Center
