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Oct. 16, 2019 / 3:00 AM

UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019

On Oct. 16, 1984, black Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa won the Nobel Peace Prize for his struggle against apartheid.

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On October 16, 1984, black Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa won the Nobel Peace Prize for his struggle against apartheid. File Photo by Ian Wagreich/UPI | License Photo
Olympic athlete Tommie Smith (R) and John Carlos, who raised their fists in a Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics, recreate the protest at the Newseum on April 17, 2018, in Washington, D.C. File Photo by Mike Theiler/UPI | License Photo
President George H.W. Bush holds Jessica McClure, a Texas toddler whose rescue from an abandoned well in Texas in October 1987 captured national attention, on July 19, 1989, at the White House. Photo courtesy the White House

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 16, the 289th day of 2019 with 76 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars, Neptune and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.


Those born on this day are under the sign of Libra. They include lexicographer Noah Webster in 1758; Irish author/dramatist Oscar Wilde in 1854; British statesman/Nobel Peace Prize laureate Austen Chamberlain in 1863; David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, in 1886; playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1888; Irish revolutionist Michael Collins in 1890; Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas in 1898; actor Angela Lansbury in 1925 (age 94); actor Barry Corbin in 1940 (age 79); actor Suzanne Somers in 1946 (age 73); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Bob Weir in 1947 (age 72); film director David Zucker in 1947 (age 72); actor Tim Robbins in 1958 (age 61); Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Flea, born Michael Balzary, in 1962 (age 57); actor Kellie Martin in 1975 (age 44); musician John Mayer in 1977 (age 42); actor Caterina Scorsone in 1981 (age 38); Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka in 1997 (age 22).


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In 1701, Yale University was founded.

In 1793, following her conviction for treason, French Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, was beheaded on the Place de la Revolution.

In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va. He was later convicted of treason and hanged.

In 1875, Brigham Young University was founded in Provo, Utah.

In 1916, the nation's first birth-control clinic was opened in New York by Margaret Sanger and two other women. Officials shut down the clinic 10 days later.

In 1934, about 100,000 men and women belonging to the communist Red Party in China began what would later be called The Long March. The followers of Mao Zedong marched some 6,000 miles fleeing the Nationalist forces.

In 1946, at Nuremberg, Germany, 10 high-ranking Nazi officials were executed by hanging for World War II war crimes. Hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo and chief of the German air force, was to have been among them but killed himself in his cell the night before.

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs, collected by a U-2 spy plane two days earlier, had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba. This would mark the start of the most fraught 13 days of the 20th century, the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In 1964, China detonated its first atomic bomb.

In 1968, American track and field athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in the Black Power salute during the medal ceremony for the 200-meter dash at the Mexico City Olympics. Smith said the gesture was meant to show that "we are black and we are proud of it."

In 1972, a light plane carrying U.S. House Democratic leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana, fellow Democratic Rep. Nick Begich of Alaska and his aide Russell Brown and pilot Don Jonz was reported missing on a flight from Anchorage to Juneau in Alaska. The plane was never found.

In 1973, North Vietnamese diplomat Le Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger, U.S. national security adviser, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their Paris negotiations that led to a Vietnam War cease-fire agreement. Le Duc Tho refused to accept the award, saying ''peace has not yet been established.''

In 1978, Karol Jozef Wojtyla was elected pope and took the name John Paul II.

In 1984, black Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa won the Nobel Peace Prize for his struggle against apartheid.

In 1987, 18-month-old Jessica McClure was rescued from an abandoned well in Texas, 58 hours after she first fell into it. Her ordeal captured national attention and she came to be known affectionately as "Baby Jessica."

In 1991, police said George Hennard killed 22 people and then took his own life after driving his pickup truck through the front window of Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas.

In 2003, the U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a resolution endorsing a U.S.-led multinational force in Iraq.

In 2011, British race car driver Dan Wheldon, 33-year-old two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, died after a 15-car pileup at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

In 2013, after weeks of bickering, the U.S. House and Senate approved legislation ending a partial government shutdown that lasted 16 days.

In 2013, all 44 people aboard a Lao Airlines plane died after the ATR twin-turbo crashed just before landing at its destination in Pakse, Laos.

In 2018, Anna Burns became the first Northern Irish woman to win the Man Booker Prize for her novel Milkman.


A thought for the day: "If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you." -- Irish author Oscar Wilde

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