Thursday, October 16, 2014

History for October 16

History for October 16 - On-This-Day.com:
Noah Webster 1758, Oscar Wilde 1854, David Ben-Gurion 1886 


Eugene O'Neill 1888, Angela Lansbury 1925, Suzanne Somers (Mahoney) 1946 


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). 


1916 - Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in New York City, NY


1928 - Marvin Pipkin received a patent for the frosted electric light bulb. 


1941 - The Nazis advanced to within 60 miles of Moscow. Romanians entered Odessa, USSR, and began exterminating 150,000 Jews. 


1955 - Mrs. Jules Lederer replaced Ruth Crowley in newspapers using the name Ann Landers. 


1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Vietnamese official declined the award. 


1987 - Rescuers freed Jessica McClure from the abandoned well that she had fallen into in Midland, TX. The was trapped for 58 hours. 


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. 


1997 - Charles M. Schulz and his wife Jeannie announced that they would give $1 million toward the construction of a D-Day memorial to be placed in Virginia

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