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Recent Event Highlights: Energizer Bunny Introduced, Who Framed Roger Rabbit Premieres, Cadbury Bunny Introduced, Trix Cereal Introduces the Trix Rabbit, Earliest Known Media Reference to Bunny Slippers, Peter Rabbit Introduced, and 14 more...

Created by LesSavyTrav on Mar 1, 2011

Last updated: 07/11/11 at 11:08 PM

• Banksy Bunny
  2009

• Bunnyslippers.com Opens
  2007

  Treat your feet 24-7-365. The web's premiere destination for plush and novelty footwear.
  http://www.bunnyslippers.com

• Scientists Clone the First Rabbit
  2007

  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-470549/Chinese-scientists-clone-rabbit.html

• Bunny Letter Opener: A Youtube Star Is Born
  2006

  Adorable video goes viral and a new Youtube star is born. 2.8 million views and counting...

• Energizer Bunny Introduced
  1989

  Hop to it... and to it... and to it...
  http://www.energizer.com/energizer-bunny/pages/bunny-center.aspx

• Who Framed Roger Rabbit Premieres
  Jun 22, 1988

  Ground-breaking mix of animated and human characters wins the summer box office and garners 3 Oscars. The movie later spawns a dance move of the same name.
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096438/

• Real Genius Released
  1985

  Val Kilmer introduces bunny slippers to a new generation of fans in the 80's cult classic, Real Genius.
  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/

• Cadbury Bunny Introduced
  1982

  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw_gEyg7Nt8

• Rabbit Is Rich Wins Pultizer
  1981

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit,_Run

• Killer Rabbits Appear in Monty Python & The Holy Grail
  1975

  "That's no ordinary rabbit..."
  http://www.bunnyslippers.com/bunny-slippers/killer-rabbit-slippers.php

• The VW Rabbit Hops Off The Assembly Line
  1974

  Volkswagen introduces the Rabbit as a fuel-efficient successor to its Beatle.

• Watership Down Published
  1972

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down

• Hop Art
  1962

  The legendary artist, Andy Warhol, with rabbit. Warhol would use bunnies as his subject matter throughout his acclaimed career.
  http://www.bunnylicious.org/2011/01/photo-of-the-day/

• Rabbit, Run
  1960

  John Updike publishes Rabbit, Run the first of several novels to follow a 26-year-old former high school basketball player named Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, and his efforts to overcome the restraints of his daily life.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit,_Run

• Trix Cereal Introduces the Trix Rabbit
  1954

  "Silly rabbit..."
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trix_(cereal)

• 2nd Issue of Playboy Published, Rabbit Silhouette Introduced
  1954

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playboy

• Harvey Premieres
  1950

• Earliest Known Media Reference to Bunny Slippers
  Mar 6, 1946

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_slippers

• Thumper Learns On Bambi
  1942

• Bugs Bunny Created
  1940

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny

• Peter Rabbit Introduced
  1902

  Beloved children's literary figure makes his first appearance.

• Alice in Wonderland Printed
  1865

  Down the rabbit hole enters the popular lexicon.
  http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Wonderland-Through-Looking-Classics/dp/0451527747

• First Recorded Reference to the Easter Bunny
  1682

  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Bunny