Let us not forget, that before The Origin and natural selection there was artificial selection; in other words, plant and animal breeding, mostly in the service of agriculture.
So, Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin. There’s a whole lot of stuff going on today, which has quite a history.
One more substantive link will do, to the Biodiversity Heritage Library‘s entry for today.
Oh no! Waylaid by Wikipedia I discover that today is also the anniversary of the Battle of the Herrings, which took place in 1429. Fishy, huh?