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Today in History ~ October 16
Events1492 - Columbus' fleet anchors at "Fernandina" (Long Island, Bahamas)
1551 - Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, re-arrested
1701 - Yale University was founded.
1710 - British troops occupies Port Royal, Nova Scotia
1775 - Portland, Maine burned by British
1781 - Washington takes Yorktown
1793 - Marie Antoinette was guillotined after her kangaroo trial in which prosecutors claim she sexually abused her son and financially abused the French Monarchy. [H]
1813 - Battle at Leipzig (Napoleon vs Prussia, Austria & Russia)
1829 - Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)
1834 - London Parliament catches fire; historic documents burn
1847 - Charlotte Bronte's book "Jane Eyre" published
1848 - 1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
1859 - John Brown leads 20 in an unsuccessful raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va. US forces commanded by Col. Robert E. Lee easily retook the arsenal. Brown was convicted of treason and hanged. [H]
1861 - Confederacy starts selling postage stamps
1863 - Grant is given command of Union forces in West
1868 - America's first department store, ZCMI, opened in Salt Lake City.
1869 - Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor plumbing
1901 - Booker T. Washington dined at the White House as the guest of President Theodore Roosevelt, whose invitation to the black educator sparked controversy.
1904 - Russian Baltic fleet departs to Port Arthur
1915 - Great Britain declares war on Bulgaria
1916 - Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic (46 Amboy St, Brooklyn)
1916 - T E Lawrence (of Arabia) meets with Fasal Hoessein
1923 - Disney Co founded
1923 - John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)
1925 - Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
1926 - Mohammed Nadir Khan begins coup in Afghanistan, 1200 killed
1926 - Troop ship sinks in Yangtze River, killing 1,200
1934 - Mao Tse-tung & 100,000 followers/troops begin 6,000 mile Long March of battles against vastly superior forces. In late 1935, with 8,000 survivors, he reached Hanoi in northwest China, and established Chinese Communist headquarters.
1940 - Lottery for 1st US WW II draftees held; #158 drawn 1st
1940 - Warsaw Ghetto formed by Nazi SS troops
1941 - Germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow
1942 - Aaron Copland's ballet "Rodeo," premieres in NYC
1942 - Cyclone in Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
1943 - Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly opens city's new subway system
1943 - Jewish quarter of Rome surrounded by Nazis, and evacuated to Auschwitz
1944 - Hungary: Horthy government falls -- Nazi Count Szalasi becomes premier
1946 - 10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials. Reichsmarshal Herman Goering cheats the hangman at the last minute by swallowing a cyanide capsule. Execution team enraged. Hanging is badly botched as most Nazis slowly strangle to death.
1948 - Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir
1953 - Fidel Castro sentenced to 15 years (Havana)
1956 - "Love Me Tender" with Elvis Presley premieres
1957 - Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visits Williamsburg Virginia
1962 - The Cuban missile crisis began as President Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.
1964 - China detonated its first atomic bomb becomes world's 4th nuclear power
1964 - Harold Wilson's Labour party wins British election
1966 - Joan Baez & 123 other anti-draft protestors arrested in Oakland
1968 - During Olympics Tommie Smith & John Carlos give black power salute
1970 - Anwar Sadat was elected president of Egypt, succeeding the late Gamal Abdel Nasser.
1972 - A light plane carrying House Democratic leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana and three other men was reported missing in Alaska. The plane was never found.
1973 - Israeli tanks under Gen Sharon move through Suez Canal
1973 - Kissinger & Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
1973 - Maynard Jackson elected 1st black mayor of Atlanta
1978 - The College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church chose Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Poland to be the new pope; he took the name John Paul II.
1981 - Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy," premieres in NYC
1982 - Mt Palomar Observatory 1st to detect Halley's comet on 13th return
1983 - "Zorba" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 362 performances
1984 - Baboon heart transplanted into a 15-day-old baby girl. After a month-long struggle, the infant's immune system finally rejects the baboon heart, and Baby Fae dies.
1984 - Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa won the Nobel Peace Prize for his struggle against apartheid.
1985 - Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip
1986 - US goverment closes down due to budget problems
1987 - 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England
1987 - Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22' into a well shaft
1989 - The New York stock market bounced back from staggering losses, with the Dow gaining more than 88 points after a 190-point plunge on Friday the 13th.
1990 - US forces reach 200,000 in Persian Gulf
1991 - George Hennard killed 22 people and then took his own life after driving his pickup truck through the front window of Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas.
1992 - Attorney General Barr appointed an independent counsel to investigate congressional charges of administration wrongdoing in the case of an Iraqi loan by an Atlanta bank.
1993 - IRA bomb attack on fish & chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed
1994 - Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), suffers a stroke
1994 - German Chancellor Helmut Kohl retained his office in parliamentary elections -- but just barely.
1995 - Over 800,000 black men gathered in Washington, D.C., for the "Million Man March" led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
1996 - Republican Bob Dole challenged President Clinton's ethics and honesty in their final debate. President Clinton was asked if Bob Dole was too old to be president. Clinton replied, "It's the age of his ideas that I question."
1996 - Soccer fans trying to squeeze into Mateo Flores National Stadium in Guatemala City stampeded, killing 84 people.
1998 - Protestant David Trimble and Roman Catholic John Hume, both political leaders in Northern Ireland, were named as co-winners of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize for their work toward bringing peace to Ulster.
2000 - President Clinton launched a fresh effort to try to cool Middle East tensions at an emergency summit in Egypt that included Israeli and Palestinian leaders, as well as the leaders of Egypt and Jordan and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
2000 - Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan and his son were killed in a plane crash south of St. Louis while en route to a rally for Carnahan's U.S. Senate campaign.
2002 - President Bush signed into law the joint congressional resolution authorizing him to use military force if necessary to rid Iraq of its suspected weapons of mass destruction. The administration hoped the United Nations would take a similar step.
Birthdays Today
1679 - Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer
1708 - Albrecht von Haller, Switz, experimental physiology (Acad of Science)
1758 - Noah Webster (author, lexicographer: Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language)
1821 - Albert Franz Doppler, composer
1825 - Thomas Turpin Crittenden, Brig Genl (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1851 - William Preston "Wild Bill" Longley a Psychopathic gunfighter is born in Texas
1854 - Oscar Wilde (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) (playwright: The Importance of Being Earnest, Picture of Dorian Gray)
1868 - Franz X Ritter von Epp, German general (China)
1886 - David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st PM of Israel (1948-53, 55)
1888 - Eugene O'Neill (Nobel Prize [1936] and Pulitzer prize-winning playwright: The Ice Man Cometh [1946]; Long Day's Journey into Night)
1890 - Michael Collins, Irish revolutionist
1898 - William O Douglas, Maine, 81st Supreme Court justice (1939-75)
1900 - Goose (Leon) Goslin (Baseball Hall of Famer: Washington Senators: left-handed hitting outfielder: World Series [1924, 1925, 193])
1906 - George Lott (tennis)
1914 - Christian J Modeste, gypsy king
1921 - Linda Darnell (actress: Dakota Incident, Blackbeard the Pirate, Anna and the King of Siam, Forever Amber, Buffalo Bill, The Mark of Zorro)
1923 - Bert Kaempfert (musician: Wonderland by Night, Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Three O'Clock in the Morning)
1925 - Angela Lansbury (Tony Award-winning actress: Mame [1966], Dear World [1969], Gypsy [1975], Sweeney Todd [1979]; Murder She Wrote, Death on the Nile, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Harlow, Blue Hawaii, The Manchurian Candidate, The Long Hot Summer, The World of Henry Orient, The Harvey Girls, Picture of Dorian Gray, National Velvet; voice: teapot: Beauty and the Beast)
1927 - Gunter Grass (novelist: Dog Years, The Tin Drum)
1931 - Chuck (Charles) Colson (government: Watergate co-conspirator)
1932 - Henry Jay Lewis, LA Calif, conductor/bass (LA Philharmonic 1955-59)
1940 - Barry Corbin (actor: Northern Exposure, Boone, The Chase, Urban Cowboy, Who's Harry Crumb)
1941 - Mel Counts (basketball)
1941 - Tim McCarver (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies, NY Mets, St. Louis Cardinals: catcher; broadcaster: Mets/ABC Sports)
1943 - C.F. (Fred) Turner (musician: group: Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Takin' Care of Business, Let It Ride, You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, Looking Out for Number One, Hey You)
1945 - D.D. (Dwight Douglas) Lewis (football: Dallas Cowboys linebacker: Super Bowl V, VI, X, XII, XIII)
1946 - Suzanne Somers (Mahoney) (actress: Three's Company, She's the Sheriff, Step by Step, American Graffiti, Seduced by Evil)
1947 - Bob Weir (Hall) (musician: guitar, singer: group: The Grateful Dead: Touch of Grey, Truckin'; solo: LP: Ace, Heaven Help the Fool)
1947 - David Zucker (director: Airplane!, Naked Gun series, Ruthless People, Top Secret!, Police Squad!, Help Wanted!)
1948 - Richard Caster (football: Washington Redskins tight end: Super Bowl XVII)
1949 - Bob Collyard (hockey)
1952 - Cal Peterson (football: Dallas Cowboys linebacker: Super Bowl X)
1953 - Mike Sojourner (basketball)
1958 - Tim Robbins (actor, director: The Shawshank Redemption, Bull Durham, Short Cuts, Hudsucker Proxy)
1969 - Wendy Wilson (singer: group: Wilson Phillips: Hold On, Release Me; daughter of Beach Boys singer, Brian Wilson)
Famous deaths
1323 - Amadeus V the Great, count of Flanders/Savoy, dies at 74
1553 - Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81
1555 - Hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boleyn, burned at stake at 80
1555 - Nicholas Ridley, English theologian/bishop of Rochester, burned
1594 - William Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62
1621 - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59
1793 - Marie Antoinette, queen of France, beheaded in France
1880 - Edward Wolff, composer, dies at 64
1918 - Felix Arndt, composer, dies at 29
1946 - Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's Foreign Minister, hanged
1946 - Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel, hanged
1946 - Alfred G Jodl, Col-Gen/German staff chief, hanged
1946 - Hans Frank, Governor-General of occupied Poland, hanged
1946 - Wilhelm Frick, Hitler's Minister of the Interior, hanged
1946 - Julius Streicher, rabid anti-semite editor of Der Sturmer, hanged
1946 - Fritz Saukel, overseer of slave labor during the war, hanged
1946 - Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi philosopher and war criminal, hanged
1946 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Nazi leader of occupied Hoplland, hanged at 54
1946 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian Nazi and major SS leader, hanged
1959 - George C Marshall, US army general, dies at 78
1972 - A light plane carrying House Democratic leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana and three other men was reported missing in Alaska. The plane was never found.
1973 - Gene Krupa, US swing drummer (Sing Sing Sing), dies at 64
1981 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli war hero/general/minister of Defense, dies at 66
1981 - William Holden, actor (Network), dies at 63
1982 - Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini), dies at 67 of kidney disease
1983 - George Liberace, violinist (Liberace Show), dies at 72
1986 - Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist, dies at 65
1991 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer (16 Tons), dies at 72
1997 - James Mitchner, prolific author of epic fiction (Hawaii), dies of kidney failure at 90
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