Suffragist organizers held the first-ever National Women’s
Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts on October
23, 1850. 

More than 1,000 delegates from 11 states arrived for the two-
day conference, which had been planned by members of the
Anti-Slavery Society.

                  (November 7, 1946 – October 22, 1965)

In action on this day near Phu Cuong, about 35 miles northwest
of Saigon, PFC Milton Lee Olive III of Company B, 2nd Battalion,
503rd Infantry, threw himself on an enemy grenade and saved
four soldiers, including his platoon leader, 1st Lt. James Sanford.

For his actions on that day, he was posthumously awarded the
Medal of Honor.

At a ceremony on the steps of the White House, on
April 21, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson (center)
presented Olive’s Medal of Honor to his father and
stepmother (left).

Dusty was one of the first female rock jocks on the West
Coast. She is shown here on the air with SiriusXM, KROQ. 

Dusty Street, the radio disc jockey who shot to popularity in
Southern California passed away Saturday in Eugene, Ore. 
after a long battle with cancer.        
   
  

MIKE GRACIA

In a televised speech of extraordinary gravity, President John F.
Kennedy announces on October 22, 1962 that U.S. spy planes 
discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba. These missile sites—
under construction but nearing completion—housed medium-
range missiles capable of striking a number of major cities in
the United States, including Washington, D.C.

Kennedy announced that he was ordering a naval “quarantine”
of Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from transporting any more
offensive weapons to the island and explained that the United
States would not tolerate the existence of the missile sites
currently in place. The president made it clear that America
would not stop short of military action to end what he called a “clandestine, reckless and provocative threat to world peace.”

The mighty USS Constitution, arguably the most famous warship
in American history — a testament to dauntless courage at sea
in the nation’s infancy — was launched in Boston on this day in
history. 

The mighty warship, 225 years old today, is the world’s oldest commissioned warship and is still afloat in Boston’s Charlestown
Navy Yard. 

This watercolor and gouache painting, attributed to Michele Felice Corné and completed about 1803, is the earliest
known depiction of USS Constitution.