LQQK!

January is National Glaucoma Awareness Month and on this date in 1929 The Seeing Eye is established in Nashville, Tennessee with the mission of training dogs to assist the blind.

In other vision news today in 1493 Christopher Columbus and crew are the first known Europeans to sight a manatee; on this day in 1839 France's Academy of Science announces the Daguerreotype photographic process, invented by artist and chemist Louis J. M. Daguerre; and Thomas Edison's Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze is released in movie theaters on this date in 1894.

The first issue of Look Magazine — a weekly general interest publication whose emphasis is more on photographs than articles — goes on sale in the United States today in 1937.

This Eye C U T-Shirt — and more products bearing the same watchful image — are on view in the CafePress.com Eye C U shop.

[To purchase items click on the photograph or colored text links.]