This Day in "History"

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October 16

1793
French queen Marie Antoinette was guillotined
for treason.

1859
Abolitionist John Brown and his men captured
the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry.

1916
Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control
clinic in New York City.

1962
The Cuban Missile Crisis began.

1964
China detonated its first atomic bomb .

1978
John Paul II was elected pope.

1995
Hundreds of thousands of black men gathered in
Washington for the "Million Man March" led by
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan .

2001
Twelve Senate offices were closed when a letter
to Sen. Tom Daschle was found to contain
anthrax .

2002
The White House announced that North Korea
had disclosed the existence of a secret nuclear
weapons program.
This Day in History: October 16 | Infoplease.com

 

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Born on October 16

Oscar Wilde
author (1854)

David Ben-Gurion
statesman (1886)

Eugene O'Neill
playwright (1888)

Michael Collins
revolutionary leader (1890)

Paul Strand
photographer (1890)

William O. Douglas
jurist (1898)

Angela Lansbury
actor (1925)
Suzanne Somers
actor (1946)

Tim Robbins
actor (1958)

John Mayer
songer, songwriter (1977)

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October 17

1777
British Gen. Burgoyne surrendered in Saratoga,
N.Y. during the American Revolution.

1931
Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax
evasion for which he was sentenced to 11 years
in prison.

1933
Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a
refugee from Nazi Germany.

1979
Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize for her work with the poor in Calcutta,
India.

1989
An earthquake measuring 7.1 in magnitude killed
67 and injured over 3,000 in San Francisco.

2011
Occupy Wall Street , an organized protest in New
York's financial district, expands to other cities
across the U.S., including Boston, Chicago, Los
Angeles, and San Francisco. Occupy Wall Street
defines itself as a group of activists who stand
against corporate greed, social inequality, and
the disproportion between the rich and poor.
This Day in History: October 17 | Infoplease.com

 

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Born on October 17

Nathanael West
novelist (1903)

Irene Ryan
actor (1903)

Arthur Miller
playwright (1915)

Rita Hayworth
actress (1918)

Montgomery Clift
actor (1920)

Evel Knievel
daredevil (1938)

Margot Kidder
actress (1948)

Ernie Els
golfer (1969)

Eminem
rapper (1972)

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october 18
1685
Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes.
1767
The boundary between Maryland and
Pennsylvania , the Mason-Dixon line, was agreed
upon.
1867
The United States took possession of Alaska
from Russia .
1912
The first Balkan War broke out.
1931
Inventor Thomas Alva Edison died in West
Orange, N.J., at age 84.
1968
The U.S. Olympic Committee suspended two
black athletes for giving a "black power" salute
during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City
games .
2011
Gilad Shalit, a 25-year-old Israeli soldier, is
released after being held for more than five years
by Hamas. He is exchanged for 1,000 Palestinian
prisoners. Shalit had been held in Gaza since
Palestinian militants kidnapped him in 2006.
This Day in History: October 18 | Infoplease.com

 

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October 19

1781
British General Cornwallis surrendered to General
George Washington at Yorktown, Va., bringing an
end to the last major battle of the American
Revolution .

1812
French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte began
their retreat from Moscow.

1960
The United States imposes a partial embargo on
goods exported to Cuba .

1983
The Senate passed a bill (78–22) making Martin
Luther King, Jr.'s , birthday a public holiday.

1987
The stock market crashed on what came to be
known as "Black Monday." Stocks dropped a
record 508 points, or 22.6%, topping the drops on
October 28 and 29 in 1929 that ushered in the
Great Depression .

This Day in History: October 19 | Infoplease.com

 

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Born on October 18

Edward Winslow
founders of Plymouth Colony (1595)

Canaletto
Venetian painter (1697)

King Mongkut
royalty (1804)

Lotte Lenya
singer and actress (1898)

Pierre Elliott Trudeau
former Prime Minister (1919)

George C. Scott
actor (1927)

Mike Ditka
football (1939)

Lee Harvey Oswald
presumed assassin (1939)

Ntozake Shange
writer (1948)

Martina Navratilova
tennis player (1956)

Jean-Claude Van Damme
actor (1960)

Wynton Marsalis
trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1961)

Zac Efron
actor (1987)
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Born on October 19
Thomas Browne
author and physician (1605)

Edmund Beecher Wilson
zoologist (1856)

Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown
baseball player (1876)

Lewis Mumford
social philosopher (1895)

Jack Anderson
newspaper columnist (1922)

John le Carré
novelist (1931)

John Lithgow
actor (1945)

Philip Pullman
writer (1946)

Evander Holyfield
boxer (1962)

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October 20

1803
The Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase.

1944
Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned to the
Philippines, 30 months after he said "I shall
return."

1947
The U.S. House Un-American Activities
Committee opened meetings about alleged
Communist infiltration in the Hollywood film
industry.

1964
The 31st president of the United States , Herbert
Hoover, died in New York at age 90.

1968
Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis .

1973
During the Watergate scandal, Attorney General
Elliot L. Richardson and Deputy Attorney General
William B. Ruckelshaus resigned and special
prosecutor Archibald Cox was dismissed by
President Nixon in what came to be known as
the "Saturday Night Massacre."

1973
The Sydney Opera House was opened by Queen
Elizabeth II .

2011
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi is killed by rebel troops
in Surt, Libya, his hometown.
This Day in History: October 20 | Infoplease.com