November 17th btw
1839 Giuseppe Verdi’s first opera “Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio” premieres at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (Verdi, one of my favorite Baroque composers, my beloved 😍)
1863 Abraham Lincoln begins first draft of his Gettysburg Address
1888 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts the premiere of his 5th Symphony at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia
1889 Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland & San Francisco
1956 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1974 Swedish pop group ABBA begins their first international tour at the Kalkonerteater in Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 Japan, the world’s second-biggest economy, slides into its first recession in seven years (My birth year)
These were just the interesting ones (or at least ones I found interesting).
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