Clive "DJ Kool Herc" Campbell | Birthdays | Apr 16, 1955

Jamaican American deejay Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell was the first of six children born to Keith and Nettie Campbell in Kingston, Jamaica. While growing up, Campbell witnessed the sound systems of neighborhood Jamaican parties called dance halls, and the accompanying dialogue of their DJs, known as toasting. He emigrated with his family at the ….

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce | Birthdays | Mar 7, 1765

French-born inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce is usually credited with the invention of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world’s oldest surviving product of a photographic process – a print made from a photoengraved printing plate in 1825. In 1826, he used a rudimentary camera to produce the oldest surviving photograph ….

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