Today in History
October 16
1555 : The Protestant martyrs Bishop Hugh Latimer and Bishop Nicholas Ridley are burned at the stake for heresy in England.
1701 : Yale University is founded as The Collegiate School of Killing Worth Connecticut by Congregationalists who consider Harvard too liberal.
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1793 : Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded by guillotine during the French Revolution.
1859 : Abolitionist John Brown, with 21 men, seizes the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry, Va. U.S. Marines capture the raiders, killing several. John Brown is later hanged in Virginia for treason. BN
1901 : President Theodore Roosevelt incites controversy by inviting black leader Booker T. Washington to the White House.
1908 : The first airplane flight in England is made at Farnborough, by Samuel Cody, a U.S. citizen.
1934 : Mao Tse-tung decides to abandon his base in Jiangxi due to attacks from Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists. With his pregnant wife and about 30,000 Red Army troops, he sets out on the “Long March" .
1940 :Benjamin O. Davis becomes the U.S. Army’s first African American Brigadier General.
1946 : Ten Nazi war criminals are hanged in Nuremberg, Germany.
1973 : Israeli General Ariel Sharon crosses the Suez Canal and begins to encircle two Egyptian armies.
1995 : The Million Man March for ‘A Day of Atonement’ takes place in Washington, D.C. CV
1998 : General Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator of Chile, is arrested in London for extradition on murder charges
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