August 20 Dateline

Birthdays

1561 - Jacopo Peri, (pseudonym Il Zazzerino), Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between the Renaissance and Baroque styles, and is often called the inventor of opera.

1888 - Eric Blom, CBE (born Eric Walter Blom), Swiss-born British-naturalised music lexicographer, musicologist, music critic, music biographer and translator. He is best known as the editor of the 5th edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1954).s

1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian novelist, poet, and translator. In 1959 he won the Nobel Prize laureate in Literature (1959) for his "lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times".

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More birthdays and historical events today, 20 August - On This Day.

 

Historical Events

1882 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture premieres on an all-Tchaikovsky program at the Art and Industrial Exhibition, in Moscow.

1913 - Harry Brearley casts the first stainless steel, an alloy of iron and 12 per cent chromium that resists corrosion.

1975 - The Viking 1 planetary probe is launched by NASA. It's the forst of two spcae missions that together comprise the most ambitious and expensive exploration of Mars in history.

1989 - The Menendrez siblings, Lyle and Erik, shoot and kill their parents in their Beverly Hills home. During the first six months as orphans they spend about $1 million of their parents' fortune, and eventually arrested. Both are sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility of parole.

1993 - Seeking peace between Israel and Palestine, the Oslo Peace Accords are finalised. Despite secret negotiations and high hopes, the conflict is not resolved. 

2003 - Pauline Hanson, former leader of the Australian anti-immigration party One Nation, is sentenced to three years in jail for electoral fraud.  



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2. Britannica. www.britannica.com
3. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 19th Ed. London: Chambers Harrap, 2011
4. Dateline. Sydney: Millennium House, (2006)
5. Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org



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