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1793: Marie-Antoinette guillotined.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.More events on this day1964: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. |
1888:American dramatist Eugene O'Neill, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936, was born. |
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. |
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