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October 16

What happened on this day

First public use of ether180 years agoWilliam Morton puts a patient to sleep before surgery at Massachusetts General in 1846, and operating theatres stop being places of screaming.
World Food DayFAO day marking the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization.
Oscar Wilde born172 years agoThe playwright of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' is born in Dublin in 1854.
Black Power salute58 years agoTommie Smith and John Carlos raise gloved fists on the 200m podium in Mexico City in 1968, and are expelled from the Games within days.

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