Ether was used as an anesthetic for the first time, by American surgeon Crawford Long, in Athens, Georgia.
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The Coca-Cola Company was incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
The category 5 hurricane Irma began dissipating, but the disaster left millions without electricity in Florida and Georgia.
The state of Georgia seceded from the United States of America.
Twelve doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston performed the first successful reattachment of a human limb – it was the severed arm of a boy.
Nineteen European nations forbade human cloning; however, the UK and Germany refused to sign the agreement.
