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Today in History: October 16

456
Magister militum Ricimer defeats the Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the western Roman Empire

1701
Yale University is founded as The Collegiate School of Kilingworth, Connecticut by Congregationalists who consider Harvard too liberal.

1793
Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded by guillotine during the French Revolution.

1846
Ether was first administered in public at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston by Dr. William Thomas Green Morton during an operation performed by Dr. John Collins Warren.

1859
Abolitionist John Brown, with 21 men, seizes the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry, Va. U.S. Marines capture the raiders, killing several. John Brown is later hanged in Virginia for treason.

1934
Mao Tse-tung decides to abandon his base in Kiangsi due to attacks from Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. With his pregnant wife and about 30,000 Red Army troops, he sets out on the "Long March."

1946
Ten Nazi war criminals are hanged in Nuremberg, Germany.

1973
Israeli General Ariel Sharon crosses the Suez Canal and begins to encircle two Egyptian armies.

1984
A baboon heart is transplanted into 15-day-old Baby Fae--the first transplant of the kind--at Loma Linda University Medical Center, California. Baby Fae lives until November 15.

1987
Great Storm of 1987: 175-kph hurricane force winds hit London and much of the South of England killing 23 people and causing widespread blackouts

1995
Skye Bridge opens over Loch Alsh, Scotland

2002
Inaugural opening of Bibliotheca Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt., a modern library and cultural center commemorating the famed Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity

2021
NASA probe Lucy launched on mission to fly-by eight Trojan asteroids circling the sun

2023
Model of a Star Wars X-wing Starfighter used in a "Star Wars" film sells for over $3 million from collection of Hollywood model maker Greg Jein

Today in History: Born on October 16

1854
Oscar Wilde, dramatist, poet, novelist and critic.

1925
Angela Lansbury, stage, screen, and TV actress

1949
Suzanne Somers, actress (Three's Company TV series).

JOTD

A mother was walking down the hall when she heard a humming sound coming from her daughter's bedroom. When she opened the door she found her daughter naked on the bed with a vibrator.

What are you doing?" she exclaimed.

The daughter replied, "I'm 35 and still living at home with my parents and this is the closest I'll ever get to a husband."

Later that week the father was in the kitchen and heard a humming sound coming from the basement. When he went downstairs, he found his daughter naked on the sofa with her vibrator.

"What are you doing?" he exclaimed.

The daughter replied, "I'm 35 and still living at home with my parents and this is the closest I'll ever get to a husband."

A couple of days later the mother heard the humming sound again, this time in the living room. In there, she found her husband watching the Super Bowl on television with the vibrator buzzing away beside him.

"What are you doing?" she exclaimed.

He replied............"Watching the game with my son-in-law."