Formation of Monty Python’s Flying Circus
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Academy Awards
Hugo Wilkie2025-12-09T14:06:54+00:00The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles California was the location for the very first Academy Awards held on the 16th of May 1929. The awards were the brainchild of Louis B. Mayer who wanted to unite the five different sectors of the film industry. The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in the Blossom Room which is still used for prestigious events today. The awards had already been announced and the whole ceremony took little more than 15 minutes at the end of a private dinner. Douglas Fairbanks Senior hosted the event and the film Wings won two awards including Outstanding Picture.
Borchgrevink’s Hut, Antarctica
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Graphene, Uni of Manchester
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Television, Baird
Hugo Wilkie2026-02-05T17:43:31+00:00On 26 January 1926, Baird gave the first public demonstration of true television images for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times in his laboratory at 22 Frith Street in the Soho district of London. Baird initially used a scan rate of 5 pictures per second, improving this to 12.5 pictures per second. It was the first demonstration of a television system that could scan and display live moving images with tonal graduation.