American journalist and author (born 1922)

Jack Anderson

Jack Northman Anderson was an American newspaper columnist, syndicated by United Features Syndicate, considered one of the founders of modern investigative journalism. S. policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. In addition to his newspaper career, Anderson also had a national radio show on the Mutual Broadcasting System, acted as Washington bureau chief of Parade magazine, and was a commentator on ABC-TV's Good Morning America for nine years.

Born

1922

October 19

Died

2005

Era

1920s

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1922 Born
2005 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

-202 Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.[citation needed]
439 The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
1386 The Universität Heidelberg holds its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.
1453 Hundred Years' War: Three months after the Battle of Castillon, England loses its last possessions in southern France.

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The world in 1922

When Jack arrived

april 1 In newly formed Northern Ireland, six Catholics are murdered in the Arnon Street killings, one week after six others were killed in the McMahon killings.
april 15 U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
april 16 The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
april 20 The Soviet government creates the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on October 19

Ayuo Takahashi 1960– Japanese-American singer-songwriter Bill Ponsford 1900– Australian cricketer and baseball player (died 1991) Evander Holyfield 1962– American boxer and actor Grover Norquist 1956– American activist, founded Americans for Tax Reform James Bevel 1936–2008 American minister and activist (born 1936) James Howard Kunstler 1948– American author and critic Jean Dausset 1916–2009 French-Spanish immunologist and academic; awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of the genetic basis of immunological reaction (born 1916) John Woolman 1720–1772 American-English preacher, journalist, and activist (died 1772) LaWanda Page 1920–2002 American actress (died 2002)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1922

Alvin Dark 1922–2014 American baseball player and manager (died 2014) Barbara Bel Geddes 1922–2005 American actress (born 1922) Bill Johnston 1922– Australian cricketer and businessman (died 2007) Cecil H. Underwood 1922–2008 American educator and politician, 25th Governor of West Virginia (born 1922) Charles Mingus 1922–1979 American bassist, composer, and bandleader (died 1979) Christiaan Barnard 1922–2001 South African surgeon and academic (died 2001) Denholm Elliott 1922–1992 English-Spanish actor (died 1992) Enrico Berlinguer 1922–1984 Italian politician (born 1922) Erich Hartmann 1922–1993 German colonel and pilot (died 1993)

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