Louis Lumière, a French engineer and industrialist who played a key role in the development of photography and cinema, was born on this day in 1864.

Did you know that:

• The first Little Orphan Annie-strip appeared in The New York City Daily News on this day in 1924
• The first non-stop transpacific flight between Japan to Washington was on this day in 1931
• The vampire novel “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer was first published on this day in 2005