WHAT YEAR DID IT HAPPEN
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1957 The test was carried out at high altitude over the largely uninhabited Christmas Island to minimise nuclear fall-out.
What year did Ringo Starr join the Beatles, and who did he replace?
Born Richard Starkey in Liverpool in 1940, Ringo Starr established himself as a drummer on the local music scene before being asked to join The Beatles in 1962.
His chance came after original drummer Pete Best was sacked – and the band’s popularity began to rocket soon after Ringo joined.The coffin containing the body of Charlie Chaplin – missing since his grave was robbed 11 weeks ago – has been found. What Year? 🙂
1912 🙁
Chinese troops have entered the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, as United Nations forces are pushed steadily back towards South Korea.
What year?Promontory May 10th, 1869.
On December 17 – of what year – the great scientist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, died. Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1846-1899, he was one of the greatest scientists of his day. As well as being instrumental in the invention of the telegraph machine, Thomson proposed the absolute scale of temperature now known as the Kelvin scale and also established the second law of thermodynamics. 😉
Joseph Swan produced an early electric lightbulb (1860), l
Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb, but instead invented the first commercially practical incandescent light.when was the technology for silent films invented?
The technology for silent films was invented around 1860, but remained a novelty until around 1880-1900, when films on a single reel became easily produced.
The art of motion pictures grew into full maturity in the “silent era” before silent films were replaced by “talking pictures” or in the late 1920s. Many film scholars and buffs argue that the aesthetic quality of cinema decreased for several years until directors, actors and production staff adapted to the new “talkies.”
The visual quality of silent movies — especially those produced during the 1920s — was often extremely high. However, there is a widely held misconception that these films were primitive and barely watchable by modern standards. This misconception is due to technical errors (such as films being played back at wrong speed) and due to the deteriorated condition of many silent films (many silent films exist only in second or even third generation copies which were often copied from already damaged and neglected film stock). 😯
Where and in what year was Italian film legend, Sophia Loren, born. 🙂
Born in Rome September 20 th1934
In what year and where did the first recorded volcano erupt in Hawai?
I’m not sure you’d take this as a true answer but as far back as 4,000 to 5,000 years ago on the island of Hawaii, there lays a dormant volcano named Mauna Kea. There is one that is even older than that going back to the last Ice Age some 20,000 years ago.
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