Have You Heard, today (10/22) marks the ten-year anniversary of the first and only time the National Hurricane Center has gone past its allotted list of names for the Atlantic season.
2005 saw a record number of 23 storms. Since that year, which included “Katrina,” went beyond the “W” storm, Tropical Storm “Alpha” was named on October 22.
Yesterday was “Back to the Future Day.”
One of the stars of those films, Christopher Lloyd, is 77 years old today.
The first parachutist from a “high altitude” took the jump 218 years ago today (10/22/1797).
André-Jacques Garnerin used a canopy 23 feet in diameter, attached to a basket, when he set himself free from a hydrogen balloon 3,200 feet above Paris.
It was not a smooth flight. The basket whirled wildly and Garnerin landed a mile from the takeoff site. It was a hard landing and Garnerin was dazed but not seriously hurt.
He became known as the Official Aeronaut of France.
Two years later, Garnerin’s wife became the first female parachutist.
26 years later, Garnerin died when a wooden beam hit him as he worked on a balloon with which he intended to test a new parachute. He was 54.
54 years ago today, Georgetown County’s Chubby Checker did “The Twist” on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
Ichiro Suzuki is 42 today. When you add up his hits from Japan’s League (1,278) and the Major Leagues (2,935), he has 4,213.
Pete Rose finished with 4,256, a record that will stand for a long, long time.
And this may be very annoying, but today is also “CAP LOCKS DAY.”
You can see “Have You Heard” each weeknight after weather on News13 at 11:00.
