1793 During the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded.
1859 Abolitionist John Brown led a group of about 20 men in a raid on Harper's Ferry.
1916 Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic, in New York City.
1946 Ten Nazi war criminals condemned during the Nuremberg trials were hanged.
1962 The Cuban missile crisis began as President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.
1970 Anwar Sadat was elected president of Egypt, succeeding the late Gamal Abdel Nasser.
1973 Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize; Tho declined the award.
1978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was elected pope by the Roman Catholic Church's College of Cardinals; he took the name John Paul II.
1987 Rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl who trapped in an abandoned well for 58 hours in Midland, Texas.
1991 A man crashed a pickup truck into a restaurant in Killeen, Texas, and opened fire, killing 23 people before taking his own life.
1995 A vast throng of black men gathered in Washington for the ''Million Man March'' led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
1997 Author James Michener died in at age 90.
1998 David Trimble and John Hume were named recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the Northern Ireland peace accord.
1998 British police arrested former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London.
2000 Missouri Gov. 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.
2001 Twelve Senate offices were closed and hundreds of staffers were tested for anthrax.
2002 President George W. Bush signed a congressional resolution authorizing war against Iraq.
2002 The White House announced that North Korea had disclosed it had a nuclear weapons program.
1859 Abolitionist John Brown led a group of about 20 men in a raid on Harper's Ferry.
1916 Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic, in New York City.
1946 Ten Nazi war criminals condemned during the Nuremberg trials were hanged.
1962 The Cuban missile crisis began as President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.
1970 Anwar Sadat was elected president of Egypt, succeeding the late Gamal Abdel Nasser.
1973 Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize; Tho declined the award.
1978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was elected pope by the Roman Catholic Church's College of Cardinals; he took the name John Paul II.
1987 Rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl who trapped in an abandoned well for 58 hours in Midland, Texas.
1991 A man crashed a pickup truck into a restaurant in Killeen, Texas, and opened fire, killing 23 people before taking his own life.
1995 A vast throng of black men gathered in Washington for the ''Million Man March'' led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
1997 Author James Michener died in at age 90.
1998 David Trimble and John Hume were named recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the Northern Ireland peace accord.
1998 British police arrested former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London.
2000 Missouri Gov. 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.
2001 Twelve Senate offices were closed and hundreds of staffers were tested for anthrax.
2002 President George W. Bush signed a congressional resolution authorizing war against Iraq.
2002 The White House announced that North Korea had disclosed it had a nuclear weapons program.
I love those "on this day in history.." lists
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