October 16
Today in America's Present Past
1755 | Indian Wars: Penn’s Creek massacre.
1758 | Noah Webster was born.
1778 | War of Independence: Little Egg Harbor massacre.
1795 | Author William Buell Sprague was born.
1847 | Charlotte Brontë published “Jane Eyre.”
1849 | Historian George Washington Williams was born.
1859 | Civil Rights: John Brown raids Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.
1867 | The Alaskan territory adopted the Gregorian calendar and moved east of the international date line.
1875 | Brigham Young University was founded.
1888 | Playwright Eugene O’Neill was born.
1898 | SCOTUS: Justice William O. Douglas was born.
1901 | POTUS: Republican President Roosevelt and First Lady Edith dine with Booker T. Washington and his family in the White House.
1931 | Watergate figure and prison ministry founder Charles Colson was born.
1945 | Author Paul Monette was born.
1958 | Actor Tim Robbins was born.
1972 | Politician (Thomas) Hale Boggs presumed to have died.
1973 | Pro wrestler Justin Credible was born.
1973 | Musician Gene Krupa died.
1973 | Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1977 | Musician John Mayer was born.
1978 | Herbert Simon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.
1997 | Author James A. Michener died.
2004 | Journalist Pierre Salinger died.
2010 | Actress Barbara Billingsley died.
