10/16/1793 - The extravagant Austrian-born French Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded.
10/17/1893 - A magnitude 7.1 earthquake on the Richter scale hits San Francisco.
10/18/1867 - The U.S. formally takes possession of Alaska, after purchasing the vast body of land for less than 2 cents an acre.
10/19/1781 - British General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown; America wins the Revolutionary War.
10/20/1930 - Sherlock Holmes heard on the radio for the first.
10/21/1803 - The U.S. Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
10/22/1793 - The first parachute deployed.
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