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2002 Frank Inn, Hollywood animal trainer, discovered Benji, dies at 86

1996 Percy Edwards, animal imitator, dies at 88

1995 John Halas, Hungarian/US cartoonist (Animal Farm), dies at 81

1994 Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93

1991 Gordon Heath, actor (Sapphire, Staircase, Animal Farm), dies

1990 Danny Wood of New Kids, steps on a stuffed animal and twists his ankle

1988 Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London

1984 Sunny Johnson, actress (Animal House), dies cerebral hemorrhage at 30

1984 DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal

1980 Lillian Roth, actress (Animal Crackers, Alice Sweet Alice), dies

1977 Loren C Eiseley, U.S. anthropologist/writer (Animal Secrets), dies at 69

1975 Oldest animal fossils in U.S. discovered in North Carolina

1965 Margaret Dumont [Daisy Baker], actress (Animal Crackers), dies at 75

1961 James Thurber, humorist (The Male Animal), dies at 66

1961 1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9

1957 U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit

1957 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor

1956 Mark Mendoza, born in Long Island, New York, born Mark Glickman, known as Mark 'The Animal' Mendoza, bassist, songwriter, musician, member of band, Twisted Sister, also performed with The Dictators, Blackfoot, genres include hard rock, shank rock

1955 Stephen Furst, born in Norfolk, Virginia, actor, Animal House, Elliot-St. Elsewhere

1954 Philthy Animal, Philip Taylor, rock drummer, Motorhead

1953 Martha Smith, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actress, Animal House, playmate, July 1973

1950 ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic and Acrobat Ranch)

1950 George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46

1947 Tim Matheson, born in California, actor, Animal House, Fletch, Up the Creek

1947 Peter Riegert, born in New York City, actor, Animal House, Crossing Delancey

1946 Josh Mostel, New York, actor, Windy City, Animal Behavior, Money Pit

1946 George Orwell published "Animal Farm"

1943 Kenny Vance, born in New York City, New York, musician, singer, producer, member of Jay and the Americans, guest singer on Saturday Night Live, supervised music for film Animal House

1940 J Thurber and E Nugent's "Male Animal," premieres in New York City

1939 1st animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed

1938 1st animal breeding society forms in New Jersey

1932 John Vernon, Canada, actor, Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry

1932 Philip Barry's "Animal Kingdom," premieres in New York City

1926 Hans Andreus, Johan W van der Zant, Dutch poet, Animal Language

1925 Bill Burrud, born in Hollywood, California, host, Safari to Adventure, Animal World

1913 Karl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren), dies at 68

1910 Lillian Roth, Rutstein, singer and actress, Animal Crackers

1908 Percy Edwards, animal imitator

1907 Loren Eiseley, professor of Anthropology, Animal Secrets

1906 Fritz Schaudinn, German animal scholar: examined amoebasis, dies at 34

1903 George Orwell, British writer, Animal Farm, 1984

1903 Clyde Beatty, U.S. animal trainer/actor, Big Cage

1895 Babette Deutsch, U.S. poet, Animal vegetable mineral

1891 "Chico" Marx, New York City, actor/comedian, Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers

1871 Fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert, examined syphilis

1864 Carl Ethan Akeley, U.S., naturalist, devoleped animal mount process

1844 Karl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer, Von Tieren und Menschen

1832 Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (La Regne Animal), dies at 62

1819 Edouard Joseph Stevens, Belgian animal painter/graphic artist

1812 Benno Adam, animal painter

1789 Peter Camper, anatomist/animal scholar, dies at 66

1769 Georges Cuvier, French zoologist, La Regne Animal

1724 George Stubbs, England, animal painter, House Frightened by Lion

1579 Frans Snyders, Flemish animal painter


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