Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (/meɪˈljɛs/; French: [meljɛs]; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938), was a French illusionist and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was well-known for the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour. Continue reading
Communist Soviet news agency TASS or Telegraf Node Agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza was formed in 1925 Continue reading
Greek physician Herophilus, founder of anatomy science timed the pulse using a water clock Continue reading
Remnants of wool clothing made of animal fibre were found at the mound of catalhoyuk in Turkey, Continue reading
John Wilkinson, an English master machinist invented a reaming machine in 1775, Continue reading
Alfred Vincent Kidder, an American archeologist conducted an archeological study at Pecos, NM, USA between 1915 and 1929 Continue reading
Enrico Fermi (Italian: [enˈriːko ˈfermi]; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian–American physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". Continue reading
Indian-born lawyer, Mohandas K. Gandhi lead nonviolent acts of civil disobedience of international significance or satyagraha (Hindi for "truth force") Continue reading
The first cloned mammal, Dolly the ewe was born on July 1996 at the Roslin Research Institute, in Roslin, Scotland Continue reading
First recorded workers strike took place in Thebes, Egypt in 1700 BCE Continue reading