Today in history: 3 things to remember

On this date:

1. In 4000BC, the world was created on this day, a Sunday, at 9 a.m.

This claim was from a book called The Ussher chronology. The book is a 17th-century chronology by the 17th-century divine James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, and Dr John Lightfoot of Cambridge.

The book holds that the Universe was created only a few millennia ago by God as described in the book of Genesis. The book which was Published in 1650  fell into disrepute in the 19th century.

2. In 1814, the first plastic surgery is performed (England)

London surgeon and anatomist Joseph Constantine Carpue performed what is considered as the West’s first modern plastic surgery operation on a British military officer in the Duke of York Hospital in Chelsea, England.

Carpue cut loose a strip of skin from the patient’s forehead, twisted it and folded it down over the nose, secured it to incisions in the nasal area, and moulded the new nose into shape. The operation was considered a success and Carpue later repeated the same operation on 2 other patients.

3. In 2001, Apple announces the first iPod Player

The iPod was developed in less than one year and unveiled on October 23, 2001. Jobs announced it as a Mac-compatible product with a 5 GB hard drive that can contain up to 1,000 songs.

The iPod is the world’s best-selling portable media player. In 2016, Apple announced that over 100 million of the devices had been sold.