Looked up historical events that happened on my birthday because I was bored
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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).
- 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
