Today in History: October 16, Cuban Missile Crisis begins
[ad_1] On Oct. 16, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis began as President John F. Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of nuclear missile bases in Cuba. Also on this date: In 1758, American lexicographer Noah Webster was born in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1793, during the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette, the queen […]