ANSWERS

1. The daguerreotype, invented by Louis Daguerre. 19 August is now World Photography Day.

2. August, which had been called Sextilis

3. Dieppe. Most of the troops were Canadian.

4. Mikhail Gorbachev was held in Crimea. Boris Yeltsin climbed onto the tank.

5. B Afghanistan

6. Coco Chanel

7. Orville Wright

8. Bill Clinton. He was born William Jefferson Blythe III.

9. Gene Roddenberry

10. Matthew Perry

11. John Dryden

12. Blaise Pascal

13. Groucho Marx

14. Sergei Diaghilev, of the Ballets Russes

15. Francis Gary Powers, in a U-2