Today's 16 October Fun Facts in History

1384 Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland aged nine, despite being female
1829 Tremont Hotel, designed by Isaiah Rogers and considered the first US modern hotel, opens in Boston
1839 Joseph Saxton, a machine inspector at the US Mint, takes the first daguerreotype photograph in the US of the Central High School building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1846 Dentist William T. Morton demonstrates the effectiveness of ether as a surgical anesthetic

1st Birth Control Clinic

1916 Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in the US at 46 Amboy St, Brooklyn

1923 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio is founded by brothers Walt and Roy Disney in Los Feliz, California, marking the beginning of what would become Walt Disney Company
1923 John Harwood patents the self-winding watch in Switzerland
1925 Texas School Board prohibits the teaching of evolution

1936 Jean Batten reaches Auckland, New Zealand, after flying solo from Kent, England, in a record 11 days and 45 minutes

1969 New York Mets' Cleon Jones is awarded first base when shoe polish on the ball proves he is hit by a pitch; he then scores on a home run in the World Series
1976 Toronto Maple Leaf Lanny McDonald scores a hat trick in 2 minutes 54 seconds, setting a Toronto Maple Leaf record for the fastest three goals by a single player

1986 Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright and poet, becomes the first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature

1987 18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued 58 hours after falling 22 ft (6.7 m) into a well shaft in Midland, Texas
2016 Ed Whitlock (85) becomes the oldest person to complete a marathon under 4 hours at the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 3 hours and 56 minutes
2019 First plant-powered selfie taken by Pete the Fern as part of research into the use of microbial fuel cells at London Zoo, London, England
2023 Model of a Star Wars X-wing Starfighter used in a "Star Wars" film sells for over $3 million from the collection of Hollywood model maker Greg Jein [1]