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!onthisdate in 1749, Handel's "Music for the Royal Fireworks" was first performed, in Green Park, London. http://identi.ca/url/75749791
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!onthisdate in 1897, San Diego State University was founded. It's @nate's alma mater
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!onthisdate 1845, Mendelssohn's "Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64" premièred in Leipzig. !listening Janine Jansen http://ur1.ca/d2039 !cm
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@stav one of my mum's absolute favourite pieces of music
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!onthisdate in 1781, William Herschel discovered Uranus.
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!onthisdate in 1995, !Yahoo was incorporated.
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Happy !birthday Rio de Janeiro. The city of Rio was founded !onthisdate in 1565.
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!onthisdate in 1993, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in NY exploded, killing 6 & injuring over a 1000.
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!onthisdate in 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
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!onthisdate in 1952, the British government, under Winston Churchill, abolished identity cards in the UK to "set the people !free".
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Drink up! !onthisdate in 1933, the Blaine Act ended Prohibition in the United States.
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!onthisdate in 1978, the 1st public dial-up #BBS was launched by Ward Christensen, inspired during the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Chicago.
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!onthisdate in 1959, Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments filed the first patent for an integrated circuit. !IC !tech
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!onthisdate in 2012, coordinated actions (including a blackout of !Wikipedia) took place in protest against SOPA & PIPA #InternetFreedomDay
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!onthisdate in 1944, the Metropolitan !Opera House in NY hosted a !jazz concert for 1st time. Performers: Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman etc
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!onthisdate in 1919, !cm composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski became Prime Minister of Poland. !listening to "Piano Concerto op.17" by Piers Lane
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!birthday !onthisdate in 1770 Ludwig van Beethoven was baptized. !listen to "Moonlight Sonata" !cm !piano http://identi.ca/url/33650392
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!onthisdate in 1989, the 1st episode of television series The !Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", aired in the United States.
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!onthisdate in 1865, Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor 'The Unfinished' was first performed. !listen http://identi.ca/url/74573798
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@stav Thanks for sharing such a beautiful music.
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!onthisdate in 1790, the Aztec calendar stone was discovered in the Zócalo, main square of Mexico City. It is 3.7 m across & weighs 24 tons.
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!onthisdate in 1991, Captain Mark Pyle landed Clipper Goodwill at Miami International Airport, ending 64 years of Pan Am ops. #bankrupt
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I was a lifetime member of the Clipper Club. I didn't know when I bought membership that it was THEIR lifetime, not mine.
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