History for October 16

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Oscar Wilde 1854

• 1793 - During the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded after being convicted of treason.
• 1829 - In Boston, MA, the first modern hotel in America opened. The Tremont Hotel had 170 rooms that rented for $2 a day and included four meals.
• 1859 - Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry, VA (now located in West Virginia).
• 1869 - A hotel in Boston became the first in the U.S. to install indoor plumbing.
• 1916 - Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in New York City, NY.
• 1955 - Mrs. Jules Lederer replaced Ruth Crowley in newspapers using the name Ann Landers.
• 1962 - U.S. President Kennedy was informed that there were missile bases in Cuba, beginning the Cuban missile crisis.
• 1989 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush signed the Gramm-Rudman budget reduction law that ordered federal programs be cut by $16.1 billion.
• 1995 - The "Million Man March" took place in Washington, DC.