2014 Event Swedish officials release a photo of U-boat tracks along the sea floor as proof that a foreign submarine breached the nation�s waters; the search began after the military detected Russian-language distress calls and spotted an unidentified vessel 2014 Event Mobile photo sharing app Snapchat settles with the Federal Trade Commission after acknowledging that it falsely claimed that data sent through the app would disappear rather than form a permanent record, creating user privacy violations 2014 Event Major photo agency Getty Images is now allowing free embedding of millions of its images, many of famous figures 2013 Event One of the rarest mammals on earth, the saola, an Asian unicorn is released by WWF; the photo was taken by a camera trap in a forest in central Vietnam in September 2013, last seen 15 years ago 2012 Event Facebook purchases Instagram, a photo sharing application, for $1 billion 1998 Death Otto Bettman, archivist/writer, Started a huge photo archive, dies at 94 1994 Death Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69 1993 Event Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km 1993 Death Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer (World Press Photo), dies at 72 1981 Event Voyager 2 takes photo's of Saturn's moon Titan 1979 Event Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14) 1979 Event U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings 1969 Event Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars 1968 Event Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head 1959 Event Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space 1954 Event 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Massachusetts 1949 Event 1st photo of genes taken at University of South California by Pease and Baker 1945 Event U.S. Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo and statue 1936 Event 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, New York 1936 Event 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah Fla 1934 Event 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, New York 1934 Event Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars 1933 Event 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken 1925 Birthday Joop C Swart, Dutch publisher/founder, World Press Photo 1924 Event 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC) 1924 Event 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, U.S. - England 1922 Event 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C. 1920 Birthday Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer, World Press Photo 1911 Event 1st photo in U.S. taken from an airplane, San Diego 1905 Event General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident) 1898 Birthday Alfred Eisenstaedt, photo journalist 1896 Event 1st X-ray photo in U.S. (Dr. Henry Smith, Davidson NC) 1868 Event Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process 1860 Event 1st aerial photo taken in U.S. (from a balloon), Boston 1858 Event Nadar takes 1st airborne photo, in a balloon 1857 Event Walter Woodbury and James Page open photo studio in Batavia, Djakarta 1857 Event Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse 1845 Event H L Fizeau and J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun 1840 Event Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype) 1839 Event Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science 1839 Event 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) 1834 Birthday Johann C F Zollner, German astronoom, astro photo meter 1832 Birthday William Griggs, inventor, photo chromo lithography
