Oct. 16 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1701, Yale University was founded. Advertisement In 1793, following her conviction for treason, French Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI, was beheaded on the Place de la Revolution. In 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va. He was later convicted of treason and hanged. In 1875, Brigham Young University was founded in Provo, Utah. In 1916, the nation's first birth-control clinic was opened in New