MILESTONES: October 22, birthdays for Jesse Tyler Ferguson, 21 Savage, Deontay Wilder

October 22, 2018 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP

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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include Olympic figure skater BRIAN ANTHONY BOITANO, who was born in 1963; director JAN DE BONT, who was born in 1943; actress CATHERINE DENEUVE, who was born in 1943; actor JESSE TYLER FERGUSON, who was born in 1975; actor JEFF GOLDBLUM, who was born in 1952; actress VALERIA GOLINO, who was born in 1965; actor DEREK JACOBI, who was born in 1938; actor CHRISTOPHER LLOYD, who was born in 1938; comedian CARLOS MENCIA, who was born in 1967; actor BOB ODENKIRK, who was born in 1962; actor TONY ROBERTS, who was born in 1939; baseball player ICHIRO SUZUKI, who was born in 1973; and soccer manager ARSENE WENGER, who was born in 1949.

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JOHN REED WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1887. An in-demand reporter and war correspondent, Reed covered the Mexican Revolution and WWI. He married the feminist writer Louise Bryant and traveled with her to Russia in 1917, where they covered the October Revolution. As a supporter of socialism and the rights of the worker, Reed was sympathetic to the Bolshevik cause. He died of typhus in Moscow in 1920. Reed was buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis at Red Square — reserved for heroes of the revolution. His chronicle of the Russian Revolution, “Ten Days That Shook the World,” remains a vital eyewitness account.

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE OPENED ON THIS DAY IN 1883. The opening of the original New York Metropolitan Opera House was celebrated with a performance of Gounod’s “Faust.”

TIMOTHY LEARY WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1920. Prominent psychologist and professor at Harvard, Leary became an icon of the countercultural movement in the 1960s. He lost his professorship after giving a hallucinogenic drug, psilocybin, to students. Leary was arrested numerous times, and on one occasion, while being held at a California prison, he was forced to submit to a personality test that he had designed himself several years earlier. He continued to advocate the use of LSD in the pursuit of spiritual and political freedom and simply for the fun of it, until his death, of prostate cancer, in 1996 in Beverly Hills.

KENNEDY ADDRESSED THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS ON THIS DAY IN 1962. President John F. Kennedy, in a nationwide television address on this date, demanded the removal from Cuba of Soviet missiles, launched equipment and bombers and imposed a naval “quarantine” to prevent further weaponry from reaching Cuba. On Oct. 28, the USSR announced it would remove the weapons in question. In return, the U.S. removed missiles from Turkey that were aimed at the USSR.

Special thanks to “Chase’s Calendar of Events” and Brooklyn Public Library.

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“You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.” — Timothy Leary, who was born on this day in 1920