TIM MAGUIRE
On this day in 1859, Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA
(now located in West Virginia).
John Brown
(May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859)
During the French Revolution on this day in 1793, Queen Marie Antoinette (below) was beheaded after being convicted of treason.
Poland’s Karol Josef Wojtyla was elected Pope John Paul II
on this day in 1978.
On Friday, October 16, 1998, police from Britain’s Scotland
Yard entered a room in a small, private hospital in London
and arrested former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet
Ugarte who was recovering from back surgery.
Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón had issued a request for
Pinochet’s extradition to stand trial in Spain for crimes
committed in Chile during extradition to stand trial in
Spain for crimes committed in Chile during his brutal
rule from 1973-1990.
On this day in 1987, rescuers freed Jessica McClure from the abandoned
well that she had fallen into in Midland, TX. She was trapped for 58 hours.
Jessica McClure Morales turned 31 in March.
James Albert Michener (February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997)
Michener was the author of more than 40 books, most of which were
fictional, family sagas. His first book was adapted as the popular
Broadway musical South Pacific by Richard Rodgers and Oscar
Hammerstein.
Michener’s typewriter at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
