World Radiography Day is observed on November 8, 2022. The purpose of this day is to raise public awareness of radiographic imaging and therapy.
X-rays were discovered accidentally by Professor Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen of the Wuerzburg University, Germany in 1895. This discovery was a scientific breakthrough and was rightly received with enthusiastic interest by both scientists and everyone else! In 1896 John Hall-Edwards uses X-rays in a surgical operation. In 1999 Chandra X-ray Observatory is launched allowing the exploration of violent processes in the universe. As of 2010, around five billion medical radiography examinations have been conducted globally.