On This Day - October 16, A Shot of History

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1978 – Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4kFpUh9C9M

1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Giant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Giant#/media/File:Cardiff_giant_exhumed_1869.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cardiff_Giant_2.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGBydRP0Mmg

1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anesthesia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP1jTFRQo0g

1793 – Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BupHMPWNV0

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet