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

7th December 2022
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 2022
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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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

2nd April 1982: Falklands War begins with an amphibious invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina

1st April 1938: Francisco Franco announces the end of the Spanish Civil War

31st March 1909: The end of the Bosnian Crisis

30th March 1939: Batman makes his first appearance when Detective Comics #27 went goes on sale

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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