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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49269)	10/16/2005 7:31:24 AM
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This Day in History Marie-Antoinette guillotined 1793: After the French Revolution began, Marie-Antoinette, queen consort of Louis XVI, was targeted by agitators who, enraged by her extravagance and attempts to save the monarchy, ultimately guillotined her on this day in 1793. 1964: China, eager to join the nuclear race, successfully detonated its first atomic bomb. 1946: Ten of the twelve defendants sentenced to death at the Nürnberg trials were executed. 1859: John Brown, a militant abolitionist, made his legendary raid on the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry. 1846: William Thomas Green Morton first demonstrated the use of ether as a general anesthetic before a gathering of physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. 1813: Napoleon led his troops against an allied force of Austrian, Prussian, Russian, and Swedish troops during the Battle of Leipzig.