It happened This week!

Disney’s animated feature film The Fox

and the Hound was released in 1981. The story about an unlikely friendship between an orphaned fox and a hound dog was inspired by producer Wolfgang Reitherman’s son, who had raised a fox as a pet. Reitherman even brought the fox in as reference for the film’s animators! Academy award-winning actor

Tom Hanks was born in Concord, California, in 1956. Before catching his big break in the 1988 film Big, Hanks sold popcorn and peanuts at the Oakland Coliseum sports stadium and worked as a bellhop—he even carried the bags of superstars Cher and Sidney Poitier!

French fashion designer Louis Réard introduced the bikini in 1946. The name for the daring two-piece swimsuit was inspired by the U.S. atomic bomb testing site, the Bikini Atoll, given that the swimsuit was regarded as “the atom bomb of fashion”! British cryptologists finally cracked the

Enigma code— the secret code used by the German Army in World War Ii—in 1941, enabling the Western Allies to end the war earlier, saving thousands of lives. The key to their success was a device invented by mathematician Alan Turing as part of a do-or-die mission recounted in the 2014 movie The Imitation Game!

The world’s first successfully cloned mammal, a sheep named Dolly, was born at the Roslin Institute in Scotland in 1996. Originally code-named “6LL3,” the lamb was renamed in honor of buxom singer Dolly Parton after it became known that the animal had been cloned from a mammary cell! Photos: Steve Granitz/ Wireimage; shutterstock.com; jeremy sutton- hibbert/alamy; Walt Disney Co./courtesy of Everett Collection; 20th Century Fox/everett Collection; Westend61/getty Images; Kidstock/getty Images; JGI/ Tom Grill/agefotostock.com; courtesy of vendor (12).