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Doctor Who was created at the BBC by Sydney Newman with C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson, first airing in 1963.

Paddington Bear was created by British author Michael Bond, first appearing in A Bear Called Paddington in 1958.

Peter Rabbit was created by English author and illustrator Beatrix Potter, first published commercially in 1902.

Rugby is traditionally linked to William Webb Ellis, a pupil at Rugby School said to have picked up the ball and run with it in 1823, though historians doubt the story.

The lava lamp was invented by British entrepreneur Edward Craven Walker, who launched it in 1963.