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Joseph Plateau
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Joseph Plateau

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Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was a Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image. To do this, he used counterrotating disks with repeating drawn images in small increments of motion on one and regularly spaced slits in the other. He called this dev…

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Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, throu…

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Choi Jin-ri, known professionally as Sulli, was a South Korean singer and actress. She first made her debut as a child a…

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10 events
2021
John_Deere
Approximately 10,000 John Deere employees went on strike in one of the largest private-sector strikes in the United States.
2014
2014_Nepal_snowstorm_disaster
A snowstorm and series of avalanches occurred on and around the Himalayan peaks of Annapurna and Dhaulagiri, resulting in the deaths of at least 43 people.
2012
Felix_Baumgartner
Felix Baumgartner jumped from a helium balloon in the stratosphere to become the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power.
2011
Michael_Christopher_Woodford
Michael Woodford was dismissed as the CEO of the optics manufacturer Olympus after uncovering internal financial misconduct, escalating the corporate scandal into one of the largest in Japanese business history.
1980
6th_Congress_of_the_Workers'_Party_of_Korea
The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party concluded, having anointed North Korean president Kim Il Sung's son Kim Jong Il as his successor.
1979
National_March_on_Washington_for_Lesbian_and_Gay_Rights
At least 75,000 people attended the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Washington, D.C., to demand equal civil rights for LGBT people.
1964
Politburo_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union
Members of the Politburo voted to remove Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and replace him with Leonid Brezhnev.
1957
Turia_(river)
After three days of heavy rain, the Turia overflowed and flooded the city of Valencia, Spain, causing at least 81 deaths.
1956
Queen_Elizabeth_Way
The Queen Elizabeth Way, North America's first intercity divided highway, opens.
1956
B._R._Ambedkar
B. R. Ambedkar, a leader of India's "Untouchable" caste, publicly converted to Buddhism and became the leader of the Dalit Buddhist movement.

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