10-16-2004, 04:54 PM
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October 16th
1793 ~ Marie Antoinette was guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1854 ~ Birthday of Oscar Wilde, Irish writer.
1859 ~ John Brown lead raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.
1886 ~ Birthday of David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel.
1925 ~ Birthday of Angela Lansbury, actress
1934 ~ Chinese Communists under Mao Zedong began their Long March.
1970 ~ Anwar Sadat elected President of Egypt.
1981 ~ Death of Moshe Dayan, Israeli general.
1978 ~ Karol Józef Wojtyła became Pope John Paul II.
2004 ~ Ramadan begins at the sighting of the moon.
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