History for December 11 - On-This-Day.com Fiorello La Guardia 1882, Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918, Rita Moreno 1931 Donna Mills 1943, Brenda Lee 1944, Teri Garr 1949 1844 - Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic. 1872 - Republican, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback became America's first black governor when he took office as acting governor of Louisiana.
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