October 16 --
Queen
Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, is beheaded during the French
Revolution. When alerted that the peasants were suffering due to
widespread bread shortages, lore has it that she replied, “Let them eat
cake.” In fact she never said that, but workers were, justifiably, ready
to believe anything bad about their cold-hearted royalty - 1793
Abolitionist John Brown leads 18 men,
including five free blacks, in an attack on the Harper's Ferry
ammunition depot, the beginning of guerilla warfare against slavery -
1859
October 15
President Woodrow Wilson signs the
Clayton Antitrust Act—often referred to as "Labor’s Magna
Carta"—establishing that unions are not "conspiracies" under the law. It
for the first time freed unions to strike, picket and boycott
employers. In the years that followed, however, numerous state measures
and negative court interpretations weakened the law - 1914
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