Today’s Highlight in History:
On Oct. 16, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis began as President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba.In 1793, during the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, was beheaded.
Ex // Top Stories Can winning SF lottery ticket buy a home in The City? A winning Powerball ticket over the weekend was purchased at a Lower Nob Hill convenience store In 1978, the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church chose Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to be the new pope; he took the name John Paul II.
In 1997, in the first known case in the United States, a Georgia woman gave birth after being implanted with previously frozen eggs.In 2009, agricultural officials said pigs in Minnesota had tested positive for the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, the first such cases in the U.S.
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