World Photography Day
Commemorates the daguerreotype, the first publicly available photographic process. From Daguerre's silver plates to 1.4 trillion phone photos per year — the medium has scaled.
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Full history →Notable · 2017
Around 250,000 farmed non-native Atlantic salmon were accidentally released into the wild near Cypress Island, Washington.- 2017Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break.
- 2013The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
- 2010Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.