Noah Webster 1758
- 1793 - During the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded after being convicted of treason.
- 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.
- 1962 - U.S. President Kennedy was informed that there were missile bases in Cuba, beginning the Cuban missile crisis.
- 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.
- 2002 - It was reported that North Korea had told the U.S. that it had a secret nuclear weapons program in violation of an 1994 agreement with the U.S.
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