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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

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

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

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8th March 1910: First female pilot’s license awarded to French actress Raymonde de Laroche

29th June 1613: The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground

25th January 1947: Patent filed for the first interactive electronic game

27th January 1967: The Outer Space Treaty that is the basis for all space laws opened for signatures

9th July 1971: Henry Kissinger makes a secret diplomatic trip to China

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

7th July 1911: North Pacific Fur Seal Convention signed for wildlife conservation

6th July 1892: The Homestead Strike sees Pinkerton agents fight striking steelworkers

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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