Ether was used as an anesthetic for the first time, by American surgeon Crawford Long, in Athens, Georgia.
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Starbucks first opened its doors in Seattle, Washington, USA.
North Carolina repealed its controversial bathroom law that restricted transgender use.
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The United States bought Alaska from the Russian Empire.
German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss constructed the first heptadecagon using a ruler and a compass.
