Events
- First cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, born [1996]
- Amazon.com incorporated as Cadabra [1995]
- ‘On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog’ cartoon published in The New Yorker [1993]
- BBC’s first TV news broadcast [1954]
- Spam luncheon meat introduced [1937]
- Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica published [1687]
Important Celebrations and Functions
Birthdays
- Ken Akamatsu [1968]
Japanese manga artist - Bill Watterson [1958]
American cartoonist who created 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip - Caryn Navy [1953]
Mathematician and computer scientist - P. T. Barnum [1810]
Founded the Barnum & Bailey Circus
Death Anniversaries
- Walter Gropius [1969]
Founder of the Bauhaus art school - George de Hevesy [1966]
Nobel laureate who developed radioactive tracers - Nicéphore Niépce [1833]
Inventor of the field of photograph