📜 December 22: On This Day in History |  | Copy Cat |  Rainbow (left) with her clone CC (right); Image: The Gainesville Sun | Each of the following events happened on December 22. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) The world’s first cloned cat, named CC (short for Copy Cat and/or Carbon Copy), is born in a biomedical lab in Texas. CC, who lives for 18 years, has all the physical attributes of any other kitty—but looks different from her clone, because coat patterns and other features are often determined in the womb. CC goes on to have her own healthy and genetically unique kittens.
- B) Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67—the “Fifth Symphony”—receives its world premiere. It would soon become the world’s most recognizable piece of classical music.
- C) The Amateur Golf Association of the United States, later renamed the United States Golf Association, is formed in New York to govern the sport.
- D) A baby gorilla named Colo enters the world at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, becoming the first-ever gorilla born in captivity.
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📜 Answers | | B, C, D, A - B) 1808 – Beethoven’s “Fifth Symphony” receives its world premiere.
- C) 1894 – The USGA is formed. The next year, 21-year-old Englishman Horace Rawlins would win the first US Open golf tournament at the Newport (Rhode Island) Golf Club.
- D) 1956 – The first-ever gorilla is born in captivity. Colo, who generates enormous public interest, goes on to become a mother, grandmother, and a great-grandmother.
- A) 2001 – CC, the world’s first cloned cat, is born, kickstarting a global pet-cloning industry.
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