Thursday, October 16, 2025

History for October 16

History for October 16 - On-This-Day.com 
David Ben-Gurion 1886
  • 1793 - During the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded after being convicted of treason.
  • 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.
  • 1941 - The Nazis advanced to within 60 miles of Moscow. Romanians entered Odessa, USSR, and began exterminating 150,000 Jews.
  • 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.

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