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2012 Event - After thousands protest Brett Murray's controversial painting 'The Spear', the gallery that exhibited his painting agrees to take the image of the artwork down from its website

1984 Death - Garry Winogrand, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations', dies of gallbladder cancer at age 56

1981 Event - Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa

1977 Event - $1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited, Paris

1959 Event - 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania

1954 Event - 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (New York City)

1950 Event - 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited

1940 Event - 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh

1939 Event - 1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill

1929 Event - 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (New York City)

1928 Birthday - Garry Winogrand, born in New York City, New York, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations'

1922 Event - 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in U.S., at New York zoo

1912 Event - 1st foreign feature film exhibited in U.S. - "Queen Elizabeth" - New York City

1854 Event - Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo

1829 Event - Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited

1802 Event - 1st leopard exhibited in U.S., Boston (admission 25 cents )

1751 Event - 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, New York City (admission 1cent)

1733 Event - 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)

1716 Event - 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)

1512 Event - Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, 1st exhibited

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