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INTERNATIONAL HISTORY

Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen discovers X-rays.

The Lumiere brothers open the first public cinema in Paris.

LOCAL HISTORY

April 23 - Regular Lyttelton - Wellington Cook ferry service inaugurated by "Penguin".

Credit: Ch-Ch City Libraries

RACING HISTORY MESCELLANY

LADY DRIVER

'Extract from an article on Trotting and its Progress in South Canterbury.'

...The Gleniti Trot, the principal event at the Timaru meeting in 1895, was won by Fiddler, owned and driven by Miss Isabel Button, who figured at many courses until women were excluded...

Credit: 'Old Sport' writing in NZ Trotting Calendar 28Nov45