The first well-publicised public demonstration of inhaled ether anaesthesia was given at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
14th December 1287: St Lucia’s Flood kills over 50,000 people around the North Sea
14th December 2017
On the 15th October 1923, the Rentenmark was introduced in Weimar Germany in an attempt to stop the hyperinflation crisis that had crippled the economy.
A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile Crisis.
On the 13th October AD 54, the Roman Emperor Claudius died, supposedly after being poisoned.
British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad during the First World War.
On the 11th October 1521, Pope Leo X granted the title “Defender of the Faith” to King Henry VIII of England.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologised to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he was refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
On the 9th October 1967 the Marxist revolutionary icon, Ernesto “Che” Guevara was executed in Bolivia after being caught by CIA-assisted forces during his attempt to provoke a revolution.
The Great Stand on the Ugra River marked the start of the decline of the Great Horde.
On the 7th October 1949 the German Democratic Republic, otherwise known as East Germany, was founded in the Soviet occupied zone of Germany.
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22nd September 1888: First edition of National Geographic Magazine published
22nd September 2018
16th October 1846: First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia
16th October 2018
15th October 1923: Rentenmark introduced in Weimar Germany
15th October 2018
14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites
14th October 2018
13th October 54: Emperor Claudius dies in mysterious circumstances
13th October 2018
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2017
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017