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Saturday 18 March 2023

On This Day March 19

At age 17, French inventor Louis Lumière invented a new process for film development using a dry plate Thirteen years later, he and his brother August patented their combination movie camera and projector, the Cinématographe. They recorded their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph on March 19, 1895. It showed mainly female workers leaving the Lumière factory on the outskirts of Lyon, France, as if they had just finished a day's work.


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Sunday 12 March 2023

On This Day March 13

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope on March 13, 2013. Bergoglio chose his name to be called Pope Francis in order to pay tribute to St. Francis of Assisi. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first ever from the Americas and the first from the Southern Hemisphere. He is the first non-European pontiff since the Syrian Pope Gregory III in the 8th century.


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