Friday, October 16

Good morning!

Congratulations to the NY Mets! Game 1 of the NLCS begins tomorrow night

Current Events -

So, did you hear what happened to Lego Land?


Today in History

1793

French queen Marie Antoinette was guillotined for treason.

1859

Abolitionist John Brown and his men captured the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry.

1916

Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic in New York City.

1962

The Cuban Missile Crisis began.

1964

China detonated its first atomic bomb.

1995

Hundreds of thousands of black men gathered in Washington for the "Million Man March" led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

2001

Twelve Senate offices were closed when a letter to Sen. Tom Daschle was found to contain anthrax.

2002

The White House announced that North Korea had disclosed the existence of a secret nuclear weapons program.