Today in History: October 16: In 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis began; In 1793 Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, was beheaded; In 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry; In 1934, Chinese Communists, under siege by the Nationalists, began their “long march”; In 1964, China set off its first atomic bomb; In 1978, John Paul II was elected Pope; In 1995, the Million Man March was held in Washington D.C.