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7th December 1972: The Blue Marble photograph taken of the whole Earth

7th December 2018
Tagged as: Apollo, Earth, Moon, NASA, Photography, Science, Space, Space Race, Technology, United States, USA

The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the iconic Blue Marble photograph of the earth.

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22nd March 1895: The Lumière brothers stage their first film screening in Paris

22nd March 2018
Tagged as: Culture, Edison, Film, France, Lumiere, Mechanical, Movie, Paris, Photography, Science, Technology

Put on for an audience of 200 invited attendees at the “Society for the Development of the National Industry”, the reaction to the moving black-and-white pictures caught the brothers by surprise.

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7th December 1972: The Blue Marble photograph taken of the whole Earth

22nd March 1895: The Lumière brothers stage their first film screening in Paris

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4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York

11th November 1865: Dr Mary Walker becomes the first (and only) woman to receive the Medal of Honor

19th October 202 BCE: Roman Republic defeats Carthage at the Battle of Zama

20th May 1882: Establishment of the Triple Alliance

7th December 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor

6th December 1969: Meredith Hunter killed at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival

5th December 1934: Wal-Wal Incident between Italy and Abyssinia

4th December 1872: Deserted US merchant ship Mary Celeste found drifting in the Atlantic

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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