1727 Thomas Gainsborough - British artist (The Blue Boy, The Watering Place) He was a founder of the English School of portrait and landscape painting

I've seen it and it is beautiful. It hangs next to Pinkie by Thomas Lawrence which is also beautiful. Both paintings are perfect together. They both hang at the Huntington Library in San Moreno, CA.

1796 Edward Jenner, a British doctor from Glousestershire, administered the world's first vaccination for smallpox, a disease that had killed millions of people over the centuries.

My two older girls have had the vaccination and the younger two have not because it isn't administered any more. It's wonderful that this vaccine has almost wiped out the disease.