TODAY in HISTORY
1735 — First opera in U.S., “Flora”, opens in Charleston, S.C.
1776 — Wolfgang von Goethes’ “Stella” premieres in Hamburg
1802 — Simon Willard patents banjo clock 1807 — Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau
1895 — Tchaikovsky/Petipa’s “Swan Lake” premieres in Petersburg
1905 — Cyclone hit Tahiti &adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people
1926 — Walt Disney Studios is formed 1933 — First flight of all-metal Boeing 247
1934 — Gaston Doumergue forms new French government
1971 — South Vietnamese troops invade Laos
1976 — Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR
1989 — U.S. Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die
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