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This Day in History: October 16


October 16: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

  1. 1843 - Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
  2. 1846 - William TG Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
  3. 1882 - The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
  4. 1923 - The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
  5. 1944 - Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker's first steady foil, was debuted at the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz's cartoon.
  6. 1968 - United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
  7. 1975 - Rahima Banu, a two-year old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
  8. 1978 - Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave.
  9. 1986 - Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
  10. 2002 - Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated.
  11. Famous Birthdays: Oscar Wilde (Irish writer), John Mayer (American musician), Paul Strand (American photographer), Rembrandt Bugatti (Italian sculptor), Noah Webster (American lexicographer)

For famous birthdays and other daily events in history, visit our Daily Dose Activities.

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