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Jacob Sempowski __ Jacob Sempowski __ __ October 16,1994 __ On October 16, 1994 Jacob Sempowski was born in Chambersburg, PA. He was born on a Sunday, at 7:30 PM. When he was born he was 21 inches tall and weighed 9 pounds 4 ounces. The weather that day was clear with a mean temperature of 57.5 degrees.

October 16, 1758:Noah Webster the writer of Webster’s Dictionary was born. He was born in West Hartford, CT. He became famous because of his compilations for the earliest American dictionary.

October 16, 1793:The Queen of France Marie Antoinette was beheaded. After Tuileries Palace was stormed her husband and her were accused of treason. She was tried by the Revolutionary Tribunal and found guilty.

October 16, 1851: The gunman known as “Wild Bill” was born in Austin county, Texas. It is known that before he was 20 he already killed 2 men. Evidence concludes that he was to modern day scientist a psychopath.

October 16, 1859: An abolitionist named John Brown raided Harpers Ferry in West Virginia. On October 16 two of his sons, him, and the other 19 followers crossed into West Virginia and captured the U.S. arsenal, took the inhabitants prisoner, and took the towns general possessions. During the night the U.S. marines killed 10 of Brown’s men and wounded him. media type="youtube" key="C2NohJr39Yg" height="344" width="425"

October 16,1912: Fred Snodgrass an outfielder for the New York Giants dropped an easy popfly in the 10th inning to lose the World Series to the Boston Red Sox. After he dropped the ball the Red Sox had a 2-run rally to win the game. The score was 1-1 at the end of the ninth and in the 10th the Giants went ahead by one beforeSnodgrass dropped the ball.

October 16, 1916:The leader in the Birth control movement Margaret Higgins Sanger opened up the first birth control clinic in. In London she studied with Havelock Ellis and other scientists. Once back in the United States she began with her campaign almost single-handedly.

October 16, 1946:The main person in Nazi Ideology Alfred Rosenberg was executed. He was born in 1938 in Estonia. He studied on Moscow and learned about communism.

October 16, 1962: The Cuban missile crisis began. During the Cold War at one point the Soviet Union increased its support to Fidel Castro. In 1962 Nikita Krushchev decided to install ballistic missile in Cuba. October 16, 1964: China detonated its first atomic bomb ever.

October 16, 1978: Pope John Paul II was elected pope. He was the first Polish pope along with being the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI. He was also the 3rd longest pope with 26 years.

October 16,1995: Thousands of black men came to Washington to be in the “Million Man March” led be Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan started a reorganized nation of Islam. Farrakhan criticized White-Americans while focusing on African-American self-improvement.

October 16, 1996: At a World Cup qualifying match in Guatemala killed 84 people. The match was set to be Guatemala vs. Costa Rica. The stadium’s maximum capacity was 45,000 but almost 60,000 people came to watch and caused a stampede.

October 16, 2001: Twelve senate offices were closed because a letter written to Sen. Tom Daschle contained anthrax.

October 16,2002: The White House announced the country of North Korea had hidden the existence of a nuclear weapons program . 

1994: The population of the world in 1994 was 5.6 billion.