OCTOBER 16
1995:Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and hundreds of thousands of black men participate in the "Million Man March" in Washington, D.C., in support of self-sufficiency for the black community and combating negative racial stereotypes.
1793: Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI and a symbol of the extravagant Bourbon monarchy, is guillotined for treason during the French Revolution.
1978: A plume of white smoke above the Sistine Chapel signals that Cardinal Karol Wojtyla has been elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church by the College of Cardinals. Wojtyla, a native of Poland, is the first non-Italian pope in more than 400 years; he takes the name John Paul II, after his immediate predecessor.
1793: Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI and a symbol of the extravagant Bourbon monarchy, is guillotined for treason during the French Revolution.
1978: A plume of white smoke above the Sistine Chapel signals that Cardinal Karol Wojtyla has been elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church by the College of Cardinals. Wojtyla, a native of Poland, is the first non-Italian pope in more than 400 years; he takes the name John Paul II, after his immediate predecessor.
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