Earthrise photograph
1968 · Event
William Anders's Apollo 8 photo of the Earth rising over the Moon becomes an emblem of the planet.
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More from Science & Technology
- Isaac Newton (1643)
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
- Invention of the transistor (1947)
- Bell patents the telephone (1876)
- Edison's incandescent light bulb (1879)
- The Space Race (1957)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Mendeleev's Periodic Table (1869)
Around 1968
- The Troubles (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- The Beatles (1960)