OCTOBER 16
1968:At the medal ceremony for the 200-meter dash at the Mexico City Olympics, African American gold medalist Tommie Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos each raise a black-gloved fist during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in silent protest against racial discrimination in the United States. Australian silver medalist Peter Norman also wears a badge in support of their protest. Smith and Carlos would be suspended by the U.S. Olympic Committee and expelled from the Olympic Village two days later.
1916: Margaret Sanger, Fania Mindell and Ethel Burne open the first birth control clinic in the United States, in a poor neighborhood of Brooklyn. The clinic is promptly raided and closed by police, while Sanger, future founder of Planned Parenthood, would face 30 days in jail for her pioneering work to make contraception accessible for all.
1923: Walter Disney and his brother, Roy, found the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio — the forerunner of the Walt Disney Company — in the back of their uncle's garage in Los Angeles, after Walt signs a contract with film distributor Margaret Winkler to produce a series of Alice Comedies about a live girl and an animated cat.
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