Back in the Chariots of Fire year (1924) today, Scottish athlete Eric Liddel famously refused to run the 100 metres at the Paris Olympics because the race was run on a Sunday and he was a devout Christian. If everybody had done that, doing nothing but praying on Sunday, I doubt there would have been any Olympic Games at all.
In other news ...
Today in 1839 Louis Daguerre and Isidore Niepce showed the Academie des Sciences in Paris how their brillant photographic techniques worked to bring us the world's first effective photographs. They were called Daguerrotypes as opposed to Henry Fix Talbot's Talbottypes and George Eastman's Eastmanotypes. Which goes to show, in photography, it takes all types.
