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December 28

4 sourced moments from December 28 in history: Westminster Abbey Was Consecrated (1065); The Tay Bridge collapsed during a storm (1879); Cinema was born in a Paris basement on 28 December 1895, plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on December 28

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1895 Culture & Arts · Film & TV

Cinema was born in a Paris basement on 28 December 1895

Around 30 people paid a franc to sit in a cafe cellar and watch the first commercial movie screening in history.

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1895 Human Body & Mind · Medicine & Disease

Röntgen announced X-rays in Dec 1895 — the press broke it

Röntgen's paper on X-rays was accepted on 28 December 1895, but the world heard about it first from a Vienna newspaper scoop.

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1879 Technology · Engineering

The Tay Bridge collapsed during a storm

On a gale-lashed Sunday night in 1879, Scotland's longest railway bridge fell into the Firth of Tay with a train aboard.

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1065 Religion & Beliefs · Rituals

Westminster Abbey Was Consecrated

A dying king's great church opened its doors days before his death, launching a thousand years of coronations and royal burials.

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