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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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22nd November 1718: The pirate Blackbeard killed by sailors under Robert Maynard

7th April 1141: Matilda declared the ‘Lady of England and Normandy’

1st October 1949: Mao Zedong declares the establishment of the People’s Republic of China

6th January 1975: Led Zeppelin banned from Boston after fans run riot at Boston Garden arena

21st January 1793: Louis XVI executed for high treason

20th January 1850: Robert McClure departs on the first expedition to transit the Northwest Passage

19th January 1915: Zeppelins bomb Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn

18th January 1919: The Paris Peace Conference begins

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

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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