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1998 Otto Bettman, archivist/writer, Started a huge photo archive, dies at 94

1994 Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69

1993 Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km

1993 Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer (World Press Photo), dies at 72

1981 Voyager 2 takes photo's of Saturn's moon Titan

1979 Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14)

1979 U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings

1969 Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars

1968 Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head

1959 Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space

1954 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Massachusetts

1949 1st photo of genes taken at University of South California by Pease and Baker

1945 U.S. Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo and statue

1936 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, New York

1936 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah Fla

1934 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, New York

1934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars

1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster is taken

1925 Joop C Swart, Dutch publisher/founder, World Press Photo

1924 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)

1924 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, U.S. - England

1922 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C.

1920 Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer, World Press Photo

1911 1st photo in U.S. taken from an airplane, San Diego

1905 General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident)

1898 Alfred Eisenstaedt, photo journalist

1896 1st X-ray photo in U.S. (Dr. Henry Smith, Davidson NC)

1868 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process

1860 1st aerial photo taken in U.S. (from a balloon), Boston

1858 Nadar takes 1st airborne photo, in a balloon

1857 Walter Woodbury and James Page open photo studio in Batavia, Djakarta

1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse

1845 H L Fizeau and J Leon Foucault take 1st photo of Sun

1840 Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype)

1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science

1839 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)

1834 Johann C F Zollner, German astronoom, astro photo meter

1832 William Griggs, inventor, photo chromo lithography


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