Thursday, August 20

Topic: on-this-day

The preserved body of Dolly the sheep on display at the National Museum of Scotland
Culture
Sunday, 7/5, 04:20 AM

On July 5: The NHS, a Cloned Sheep, the Bikini and a New Nation

  • The fifth of July is an unusually crowded date in modern history: it saw the birth of Britain's National Health Service, the independence of Cape Verde, the arrival of the bikini and, five decades later, the world's first cloned mammal.
  • Four anniversaries, on four very different fronts, that still shape the world today.

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