• 1833 – Death day ofNicéphore Niépce, French inventor, created the first known photograph (Birth : 1765)
• 1918 - Birth day of K. Karunakaran, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Kerala (Death : 2010)
• 1954 – The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.


• 1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.