2014 Event Apple purchases SnappyLabs, a small company that makes a popular photography app; the $1 app enables smartphone users to modify how the built-in camera takes photos and how quickly the photos are taken 2004 Death Susan Sontag, "writer, activist", On Photography, dies at 71 1973 Death Edward Steichen, pioneer of U.S. photography, dies at 93 1956 Event Photography begins on "... and God Created Women" 1909 Birthday Edwin H Land, inventor, instant photography, Polaroid, 1887 Event Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established 1882 Death Johann CF Zollner, German astronomer (astro photography), dies 1879 Birthday Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography 1856 Birthday Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art 1830 Birthday Eadweard Muybridge, born in England, pioneered study of motion, photography 1765 Birthday Joseph N. Niepce, French inventor, photography
