This Day, That Year – December 31

On this day in 1853, a dinner party was held inside a life-sized model of an Iguanodon (ornithopod dinosaur), created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in South London.

Did you know that:

• Henri Matisse was a French artist born on this day in 1869
• Edison gave the first public demonstration of his incandescent lamp on this day in 1879
• Charles Darrow patented the board game Monopoly on this day in 1935