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

7th December 2020
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 2020
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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HistoryPod Extra: Centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918

16th May 1771: The Battle of Alamance ends the Regulator Movement in Provincial North Carolina

1st February 1960: Start of the Greensboro sit-ins to protest segregation

18th August 1920: Ratification of the 19th Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees female suffrage

13th June 1944: First V-1 ‘Doodlebug’ flying bomb attack on London

12th June 1987: Ronald Reagan calls on Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘Tear down this wall!’

11th June 1837: Broad Street Riot breaks out in Boston, MA

10th June 1935: Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by Bill Wilson and Robert Smith

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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