October 16 is “Ether Day” -- celebrating the first time anesthesia was successfully used for surgery in 1846. The “Ether Dome” where the surgery took place is now a historic landmark in Boston.
In 1964, China detonated its first atomic bomb, dubbed Project 596. In 1968, American track and field athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in the Black Power salute during the ...
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