October 16<\/p>\n
1793 \u2013 Queen Marie Antoinette is executed on the guillotine<\/p>\n
1817 \u2013 Italian explorer and archaeologist Giovanni Belzoni, discovers the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I in the Valley of the Kings.<\/p>\n
1846 \u2013 Dr. William T. G. Morton demonstrates the administration of ether anesthesia for surgical operations at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.<\/p>\n
1859 \u2013 John Brown, leading 21 men, raids the U.S. Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.<\/p>\n
1875 \u2013 Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.<\/p>\n
1882 \u2013 The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad opens for business, connecting\u00a0Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Toledo.<\/p>\n
1909 \u2013 Mexican President Porfirio D\u00edaz visits President William Taft in El Paso and Taft returns the visit by traveling to Ciudad Juarez where they narrowly miss being assassinated by a lone gunman who was captured mere feet away from them.<\/p>\n
1916 \u2013 Margaret Sanger opens the first “family planning” clinic in Brooklyn<\/p>\n
1919 \u2013 Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers’ Party.<\/p>\n
1939 \u2013 603 Squadron RAF, flying Spitfires, intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Great Britain also making the first fighter kill of the war over the country.<\/p>\n
1940 \u2013 The Warsaw Ghetto is established.<\/p>\n
1946 \u2013 10 Nazis found guilty by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremburg for crimes against humanity are executed by hanging.<\/p>\n
1962 \u2013 President Kennedy is informed of the aerial photos taken on October 14 of Russian nuclear missiles being installed in Cuba<\/p>\n
1964 \u2013 With the assistance of the Soviets,\u00a0 China detonates its first nuclear device at their Lop Nur test site in Xinjiang province, \u00a0a uranium implosion device of equivalent power to the one the U.S. used to bomb Nagasaki<\/p>\n
1975 \u2013 3 year old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring<\/em> smallpox.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 A man kills 23 and wounds 20 more people after driving his truck into Luby’s restaurant in Killeen, Texas. One of the patrons, Suzanna Gratia Hupp,\u00a0left her handgun in her vehicle instead of breaking the law, and later continued to campaign for Texas concealed carry until it was passed into law 4 years later.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 16 1793 \u2013 Queen Marie Antoinette is executed on the guillotine 1817 \u2013 Italian explorer and archaeologist Giovanni Belzoni, discovers the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I in the Valley of the Kings. 1846 \u2013 Dr. William T. G. Morton demonstrates the administration of ether anesthesia for surgical operations at the Massachusetts General Hospital in … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60796"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96844,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60796\/revisions\/96844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}