This Week in History

OCTOBER 16

Laurice Keating was born.

Robby Schwach was born.

Buck Grottano was born.

1793 – French queen Marie Antoinette was guillotined for treason.

1978 – John Paul II was elected pope.

OCTOBER 17

Jessica Schulman was born.

1931 – Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion for which he was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

1989 – An earthquake measuring 7.1 in magnitude killed 67 and injured over 3,000 in San Francisco.

OCTOBER 18

Blanche Brady was born.

Annette Yorke was born.

1867 – The United States took possession of Alaska from Russia.

OCTOBER 19

1960 – The United States imposes a partial embargo on goods exported to Cuba.

1987 – The stock market crashed on what came to be known as Black Monday. Stocks dropped a record 508 points, or 22.6%, topping the drops in 1929 that ushered in the Great Depression.

OCTOBER 20

Richard Sergiovanni was born.

KathiAnn O’Sheil was born.

Mickey Mantle was born.

Alice Rodkin was born.

1944 – Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines, 30 months after he said, “I shall return.”

1968 – Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis.

OCTOBER 21

Wil Pops Gilliard was born.

Carolyn Riordan was born.

Jaclyn Powell Blum was born.

1879 – Thomas Edison invented a workable incandescent electric lamp.

OCTOBER 22

Janine DaSilva was born.

Janet Jenkusky Brady was born.

Chris Yorke was born.

1962 – President Kennedy announced an air and naval blockade of Cuba, following the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.

1979 – The deposed Shah of Iran was allowed in the U.S. for medical treatment. This led to the Iran hostage crisis.