World Photo Day
World Photo Day is held on August 19. Founded in 2009 by Australian photographer Korske Ara. The date was chosen to honor the day the French government acquired a patent for the daguerreotype, an early photographic process. This event in the second decade of the month August is annual. 
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The Most Viewed Photograph in History is this Old Windows Default Screen. The First Color Photo Wasn't Taken Until 1861. The first color photograph made by the three-color method suggested by James Clerk Maxwell in 1855, taken in 1861 by Thomas Sutton. In 1861, Thomas Sutton suggested the process to create the world's first color image. The result of layering three separate images of red, green, and blue filters. These were then projected onto a photosensitive plate with the corresponding filters.
The first photograph ever taken was by a French scientist named Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took that photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras, at his family's country home. The famous image took eight hours to capture because of the long exposure needed for the camera. The image was actually lost for nearly 50 years before historians rediscovered it.
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World Photography Day on July 19
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World Scrapbooking Day on May 2
Nature Photography Day on June 15
All American Pet Photo Day on July 11
Bad Poetry Day on August 18 (Do not despair if you cannot write beautiful poems - this holiday is for those who at least tried);
World Orangutan Day on August 19
Kite Festival on Wangerooge on August 19
World Mosquito Day on August 20 (in memory of the discovery of the British doctor Sir Ronald Ross, which he made in 1897. He was able to establish that it is female mosquitoes that transmit malaria between humans);
World French Fries Day on August 20
World Laziness Day on August 20