2014 Event Apple announced the Apple Watch, the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus; the phones will be larger than previous models and have an improved camera; all three devices use Near Field Communication (NFC) to allow instant payments in stores without credit cards 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 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 The famous film and camera company Kodak, files for bankruptcy protection 2011 Event A professor from New York University has an experimental life-blogging camera removed from his head after his immune system rejected the implant 2000 Death Durward Kirby, sidekick, Candid Camera, dies at 87 1999 Death Hazel Frederick, face in a crowd, faced the camera when Mary Tyler Moore tossed her hat in the opening credits of her show, dies at 91 1999 Death Allen Funt, Candid Camera guy, dies at 84 1993 Event Candid Camera creator Allen Funt suffers a stroke at 78 1991 Death Tutte Lemkow, dancer/dir (Captain Paradise, I am a Camera), dies at 73 1991 Death Edwin H Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81 1988 Event Mike Tyson smashes TV camera outside his Bernardsville New Jersey home 1988 Event "Price is Right" model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera 1976 Death James Flavin, actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 69 1973 Death Ludwig Stossel, Austrian actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 89 1970 Event Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera 1964 Birthday Mike Nolan, rocker, Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies 1954 Birthday Cheryl Baker, rock vocalist, Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies 1953 Birthday Bobby Gubby, rocker, Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies 1951 Event John Van Druten's "I am a Camera," premieres in New York City 1949 Event Candid Camera, TV comedy Variety, moves to NBC 1949 Event 1st Polaroid camera sold $89.95 in New York City 1948 Event 1st Polaroid camera sold 1948 Event Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC 1948 Event 1st Polaroid camera was sold in US 1947 Event 1st instant developing camera demonstrated in New York City, by E H Land 1946 Death Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer (Camera Work), dies at 82 1944 Birthday Fannie Flagg, Birmingham, Alabama, actress/comediene, Candid Camera 1936 Event 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah Fla 1935 Death Bernard Schmidt, inventor (Schmidt camera), dies 1932 Event Camera exposure meter patented, W. N. Goodwin 1930 Birthday John Bartholomew Tucker, born in Pennsylvania, TV host, Candid Camera, Treasure Island 1922 Birthday Ilja Hurnik, born in Poruba, Czechoslovakia, composer, essayist, studied at Prague Conservatory, Prague Academy of Arts, recorded 'sonata da camera', for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord on Cedille Records 1918 Birthday Ron Randell, Sydney Australia, actor, Loves of Carmen, I am a Camera 1914 Birthday Allen Funt, born in Brooklyn, New York, TV host and creator, Candid Camera 1906 Birthday James Flavin, Portland Me, actor, Man With a Camera 1903 Death Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura), dies at 88 1895 Event British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector 1891 Event Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera 1889 Event George Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time 1889 Event John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope 1888 Event George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera and registers "Kodak" 1888 Event George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera" 1883 Birthday Ludwig Stossel, Austria, actor, Man With a Camera 1864 Birthday Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer, Camera Work 1856 Event Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio 1854 Birthday George Eastman, born in Waterville, New York, inventor, Kodak camera 1814 Birthday Nicolas Beets, Hildebrand, Dutch writer, Camera Obscura
