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2012 Event - The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., announces a successful artificial insemination as Mei Xiang gives birth to her second giant panda cub

2012 Event - Japan mourns the loss of a 6-day old rare giant panda, born naturally in captivity at a Tokyo zoo

1995 Death - Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator, dies at 57

1994 Event - Tropical Butterfly Garden at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens

1993 Birthday - Primera, an Andean condor, hatched at Cleveland Zoo, 5th born in captivity

1989 Birthday - Baby lion-tailed macaques, at Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle

1988 Event - Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years

1981 Event - Cleveland Metroparks Administrative offices move from downtown to Zoo

1981 Event - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated

1979 Event - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate and Cat Building is dedicated

1975 Event - Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for Zoo

1974 Event - Wings release "Band on the Run" and "Zoo Gang" in UK

1972 Birthday - Michael Bays, born in Enrico, California, actor, Bronx Zoo, Days of Our Live

1968 Event - Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo

1965 Death - Porcupine, in Washington D.C. zoo, dies at 27; oldest known rodent

1962 Event - Lion and Tiger Veldt at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated

1962 Birthday - Steve Irwin, born in Essedon, Australia, wildlife expert, television personality, 'The Crocodile Hunter', wildlife documentary series, owned and operated Australia Zoo

1959 Event - Edward Franklin Albee's "zoo story," premieres in Berlin

1959 Event - 1st exhibit of bongos at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens

1959 Event - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children's Petting Farm opens

1956 Event - Pachyderm Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens

1954 Death - Red deer, in Milwaukee Zoo, oldest known deer, dies at 26

1953 Birthday - Jean-Claude Lauzon, Montreal, director and writer, Leola, Night Zoo

1950 Event - Bird Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated

1937 Event - WPA extends L-Taraval streetcar to San Francisco Zoo (at Sloat Blvd)

1937 Birthday - Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator

1931 Event - Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England

1928 Birthday - Edward Albee, born in Washington, D.C., playwright, Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story

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

1916 Event - San Diego Zoo founded

1914 Death - Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo

1906 Death - Australian wombat; oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at 26

1886 Birthday - Anton Portielje, Dutch radio host/zoo director, Artis

1882 Event - Amsterdam Artis Zoo opens aquarium

1881 Death - Japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian

1879 Birthday - Leendert Round, Dutch sculptor, entrance Rotterdam Zoo

1874 Event - 1st U.S. zoo opens in Philadelphia

1793 Event - 1st public zoo opens in Paris













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