Oct 16 in history

October 16 1793 – Marie Antoinette, queen consort of Louis XVII, was guillotined at the Place de la Révolution in Paris at the height of the French Revolution. 1834 – Most of the Palace of Westminster in London was destroyed in a fire. 1916 – Margaret Sanger (pictured) established the United States' first family planning clinic in Brooklyn, New York. 1934 – Long March: Surrounded by Kuomintang troops, Zhou Enlai, Bo Gu, and Otto Braun led a breakout of 130,000 Red Army soldiers and civilians from Jiangxi. 1986 – Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner made his ascent of Lhotse, making him the first person to climb all fourteen "eight-thousanders".