John Carpenter’s "Halloween" premiered, sending chills
across small towns nationwide.

Jamie Lee Curtis, 19 at the time, was paid only $8,000 for
her film debut.

Halloween spawned a film franchise comprising 13 films
which helped construct an extensive backstory for Michael
Myers.

Jamie Lee Curtis will be 67 years young on November 22.

Nick Castle played Michael Meyers right.

On October 24, 1901, a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie
Edson Taylor (above) became the first person to successfully
take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive.

Her motives were financial but she never made much money
from her adventure.

No matter the method, going over Niagara Falls is illegal, and
survivors face charges and stiff fines on either side of the
border.

Taylor, on her 63rd birthday, was accompanied by her cat.

Annie Edson Taylor (October 24, 1838 – April 29, 1921)

The supersonic Concorde jet made its last commercial
passenger flight, traveling at twice the speed of sound
from New York City’s John F. Kennedy International
Airport to London’s Heathrow Airport on October 24,
2003.

A large crowd of spectators greeted the plane’s arrival in
London, which coincided with two other final Concorde
flights from Edinburgh and the Bay of Biscay.

Disney released "Dumbo," a film about a circus elephant
with huge ears who was ridiculed until a mouse shows
him he can use his ears to fly.

Dumbo was set to be crowned TIME Magazine’s "Mammal
of the Year" in late 1941, but got bumped off the cover by
Pearl Harbor.

The film is one of the studio’s shortest animated features
at 64 minutes.

     
     
     
     
   
In a televised speech of extraordinary gravity, President John F.
Kennedy announced on October 22, 1962 that U.S. spy planes
have 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.