Historical events that happened today, October 16th!

Here are some of the great historical events that happened today, October 15th, in history!

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 Kilingworth, Connecticut by Congregationalists who consider Harvard too liberal.
1793	Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded by guillotine during the French Revolution.
1846	Ether was first administered in public at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston by Dr. William Thomas Green Morton during an operation performed by Dr. John Collins Warren.
1859	Abolitionist John Brown, hoping to start an anti-slavery rebellion, led a raid on a federal armory at Harpers Ferry in present-day West Virginia.
1888	Playwright Eugene O’Neill was born in New York City.
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 Farnsborough, by Samuel Cody, a U.S. citizen.
1934	Mao Tse-tung decides to abandon his base in Kiangsi 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.”
1938	Billy the Kid, a ballet by Aaron Copland, opens in Chicago.
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.
1964	China detonated its first atomic bomb.
1969	The New York Mets, a previously hapless expansion team, won the World Series 4 games to 1 over American League powerhouse the Baltimore Orioles.
1970	Anwar Sadat was elected president of Egypt, succeeding the late Gamal Abdel Nasser.
1973	Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, who negotiated a cease-fire in the Vietnam War, were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize; Tho declined the award.
1973	Israeli General Ariel Sharon crosses the Suez Canal and begins to encircle two Egyptian armies.
1978	The college of cardinals elects 58-year-old Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, a Pole, the first non-Italian Pope since 1523.
1984	Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1984	A baboon heart is transplanted into 15-day-old Baby Fae–the first transplant of the kind–at Loma Linda University Medical Center, California. Baby Fae lives until November 15.
1987	Rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl who had been trapped in an abandoned well for 58 hours in Midland, Texas.
1995	The Million Man March for ‘A Day of Atonement’ takes place in Washington, D.C.
1998	David Trimble and John Hume were named recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the Northern Ireland peace accord.
2002	President George W. Bush signed a congressional resolution authorizing war against Iraq.
2011	The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was formally dedicated in Washington, D.C.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll

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Historical events that happened today, October 16th!