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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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13th May 1950: First #Formula1 World Championship Grand Prix race at Silverstone

9th January 1349: Jews massacred in Basel during the Black Death persecutions

8th August 1969: The Beatles pose for an album cover on the Abbey Road zebra crossing

3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne

19th August 1989: The Pan-European Picnic opens the Cold War border between Hungary and Austria

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

17th August 1836: Parliament passes the 1836 Marriage Act, allowing non-Anglican ceremonies

16th August 1858: Queen Victoria sends the first transatlantic telegram

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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