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Cinema


1994 Fire in cinema in Karamay China, 310 killed

1992 Jim Whaley, TV host (Cinema Showcase), dies of heart attack at 44

1992 Serge Daney, French film critic (Les cahiers du cinema, Traffic), dies

1955 Fire in cinema to Sclessin Belgium, kills 39

1948 Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" opens at Park Avenue Cinema

1942 Robbe de Deer, Flemish director/producer, Fugitive Cinema, Bomb

1941 Jacques Perrin, Paris, France, actress, Cinema Paradiso, 317th Platoon

1932 Alexander Kluge, born in Halberstadt, Germany, film director, author, work 'Butalitat im Stein' or 'Brutality in Stone', helped launch New German Cinema

1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died

1908 Hans Werner Richter, German author, Socially Responsible Cinema

1906 Cinema Omnia Pathe, world's 1st cinema, opens (Paris)

1895 Auguste Lumiere, twin brothers who opened 1st commercial cinema

1895 Louis Lumiere, twin brothers who opened 1st commercial cinema


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