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Cultural dates, releases and technologies with reviewable evidence and editorial oversight.

6 December 2006
PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO / MEXICO

The Mexico City Museum Archive of Photography is established

The creation of the Museum Archive of Photography was published in the Official Gazette of the Federal District. The institution was established to preserve, study and disseminate photographs, especially images related to Mexico City’s history.

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  1. Censo-Guía de Archivos de España e Iberoaméricacensoarchivos.cultura.gob.es · accessed 09/27/2026
6 December 2006
PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO / MEXICO

The creation of the Museum Archive of Photography is published

The creation of Mexico City’s Museum Archive of Photography was published in the Official Gazette of the Federal District on 6 December 2006.

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  1. Censo-Guía de Archivos de España e Iberoaméricacensoarchivos.cultura.gob.es · accessed 09/28/2026
6 December 2006
PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO / MEXICO

Creation of Mexico’s Museum Archive of Photography is published

The Official Gazette of the Federal District published the creation of the Museum Archive of Photography, established to gather images related to local administrations, public services and infrastructure works.

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  1. Censo-Guía de Archivos de España e Iberoaméricacensoarchivos.cultura.gob.es · accessed 09/24/2026
6 December 2006
PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO / MEXICO

The creation of the Mexico City Photography Archive Museum is published

The creation of the Photography Archive Museum was published in the Official Gazette of the Federal District. The institution is dedicated to preserving, researching and disseminating photography, with particular attention to images related to the city's history.

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  1. Censo-Guía de Archivos de España e Iberoaméricacensoarchivos.cultura.gob.es · accessed 09/26/2026
2006
RESTORATION / ITALY

The Museo della Figurina opens in Modena

The Museo della Figurina opened in Modena in 2006. It grew out of Giuseppe Panini’s private collection, donated to the city, and presents the history of trading cards and their printing materials and techniques.

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  1. Una historia de cromos | Pixartprintingwww.pixartprinting.es · accessed 09/26/2026
2006
COMPUTERS / NORTHERN AMERICA

The Macintosh transition to Intel processors begins

Apple began moving the Macintosh line from PowerPC to Intel processors, another technical shift in a product family that had continued since the original model.

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  1. Macintoshes.wikipedia.org · accessed 09/28/2026
2006
RESTORATION / ITALY

The Museo della Figurina in Modena opens

The Museo della Figurina in Modena, formed from Giuseppe Panini’s private collection, opened in 2006 and preserves a large collection of printed images.

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  1. Una historia de cromos | Pixartprintingwww.pixartprinting.es · accessed 09/28/2026
2004
RESTORATION / GLOBAL

FIAT/IFTA issues a worldwide call to preserve audiovisual archives

In 2004, the International Federation of Television Archives issued a worldwide call to preserve radio and television archives, emphasizing their value as expressions of cultural identity and historical testimony.

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  1. Preservación del patrimonio audiovisual de televisión El archivo de Televisión Española (TVE): de los orígenes a la digitalización - Dialnetdialnet.unirioja.es · accessed 09/25/2026
2000
EVERYDAY LIFE / SPAIN

The Ministry of Culture begins standardizing thesauri used in DOMUS

The museum’s reference states that a campaign began in 2000 to standardize the thesauri used in DOMUS to describe and catalog museum and documentary collections. The article cites DOMUS as a cataloging tool without claiming that it includes old software.

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  1. Documentación - | Ministerio de Culturawww.man.es · accessed 09/23/2026
1999
PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO / SPAIN

The collection that originated the Canary Islands Historical Photography Archive is acquired

According to the Virtual Library of Bibliographic Heritage, the FEDAC-maintained archive dates back to 1999, when the Cabildo of Gran Canaria acquired a collection of more than 18,000 old photographs from José Antonio Pérez Cruz.

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  1. Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico > Fototeca > Fototeca > Presentaciónbvpb.mcu.es · accessed 09/28/2026
May 1998
FOOD AND SWEETS / SPAIN

The National Museum of Anthropology opens ¡A comer!: alimentación y cultura

The National Museum of Anthropology held the exhibition ¡A comer!: alimentación y cultura from May to November 1998, documented in a catalogue.

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  1. Historias y estudios generaleswww.bne.es · accessed 09/22/2026
23 June 1996
CONSOLES / JAPAN

Nintendo 64 launches in Japan

Nintendo dates the Japanese launch of Nintendo 64 to 23 June 1996 and describes it as its first 64-bit console. According to the company’s timeline, thousands queued and more than 500,000 units were sold on the first day.

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  1. La historia de Nintendo | Hardware | Nintendo ESwww.nintendo.com · accessed 09/21/2026
1996
EVERYDAY LIFE / SPAIN

A restoration phase at the Romanticism Museum is completed

The phase completed in 1996 chiefly affected the spaces beneath the roof and the museum’s ground floor.

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  1. Archivo del Museo Nacional del Romanticismo (Madrid ...censoarchivos.mcu.es · accessed 09/23/2026
1995
BOARD GAMES / GLOBAL

The symposium becomes an annual gathering held in different locations

According to the source, in 1995 the board-game gathering became an annual event held in different parts of the world.

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  1. mundo lúdico – Games & Co.gamesandco.wordpress.com · accessed 09/23/2026
1995
RESTORATION / SPAIN

The MEIAC opens

The Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC) opened in 1995. The article cites it as an example of an institution whose archive is connected to research and cultural exchange.

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  1. archivo del museo extremeño e iberoamericano ... - Censo-Guíacensoarchivos.mcu.es · accessed 09/25/2026
1994
COMPUTERS / NORTHERN AMERICA

Apple introduces PowerPC chips in the Macintosh line

Apple brought PowerPC processors to the Macintosh line, an architectural change that marked a new technical phase for the range.

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  1. Macintoshes.wikipedia.org · accessed 09/28/2026