October 16: Sukkot begins at sunset (Judaism, 2016)
Margaret Sanger
- 1793 – Marie Antoinette, queen consort of Louis XVI, was guillotined at the Place de la Révolution in Paris at the height of the French Revolution.
- 1841 – The Church of Scotland established Queen's College in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
- 1916 – Margaret Sanger (pictured) established the United States' first family planning clinic in Brooklyn, New York.
- 1986 – Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner made his ascent of Lhotse, making him the first person to climb all fourteen "eight-thousanders".
- 1996 – At least 83 people were killed and more than 140 injured in a stampede at Guatemala City's Estadio Mateo Flores during a 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification match between Guatemala and Costa Rica.
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