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Dec 31, 1925 Composer Ottorino Respighi makes his American concert debut with the NY Philharmonic...

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Dec 31, 1857: Queen Victoria selects Ottawa as the capital city of Canada.

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DDR, Scott Nr 303 (1956)

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DDR, Scott Nr 295 (1956)

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Dec 30, 1947: Romania's King Michael is forced to abdicate by Soviet-backed Communists.

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Dec 29, 1965: Conductor Zubin Mehta makes his debut at the NY Metropolitan Opera.

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Dec 29, 1607: Pocahontas pleads with her father, Chief Powhatan, to spare John Smith’s life.

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Great Britain D Day Stamp for 2019

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Great Britain, Scott Nr 670 (1972)

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Dec 29, 1965: Conductor Zubin Mehta makes his debut at the NY Metropolitan Opera . . .

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Dec 29, 1607: Pocahontas pleads with her father, Chief Powhatan, to spare John Smith’s life.

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Dec 27, 1688: William of Orange marches into London as King James II flees the scene.

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Dec 27, 1937: Maurice Ravel dies from complications following exploratory brain surgery . . .

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Dec 27, 1841: Franz Liszt attains rock star status after a performance at the Singakademie in Berlin

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Dec 27, 2007: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated.

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2018 Hellas Catalog Vol. 1 - 3

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Dec 26, 1982: Time magazine announces its "Man of the Year."

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Ireland, Scott Nr 618 (1985)

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Dec 25, 800: The pope crowns Charlemagne emperor, in Rome.

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Dec 25, 1870: First performance of Wagner's symphonic poem Siegfried Idyll.

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Dec 24, 1943: General Dwight D. Eisenhower is appointed the Supreme Allied Commander.

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Dec 24, 1818: First performance, by Franz Gruber and Joseph Mohr, of Silent Night.

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Dec 23, 1989 The first of two public performances of Beethoven's 9th, in West Berlin, conducted . .

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Dec 23, 1990: In a national referendum, 88.5% of voters in Slovenia vote for independence from Yugos

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Dec 22, 1829: The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad opens the first passenger railway line.

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Dec 22, 1808: A 4-hour Ludwig-palooza concert in Vienna features . . .

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Dec 21, 1620: The Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (or thereabout) because they're almost out of beer.

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Dec 21, 1936: Debut @MetOpera in NY of Swedish contralto Kerstin Thorborg known for her . . .

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Dec 20, 1764: Swiss author and composer Jean Jacques Rousseau finishes writing his music dictionary.

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Dec 20, 1803: The United States buys the Louisiana Territory from France.

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Alexander Scriabin claimed to have synesthesia, a neurological condition in which . . .

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Dec 19, 1154: Henry II (the man behind the murder of Thomas Beckett) is crowned king of England.

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Dec 18, 1933: Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence, makes her Metropolitan Opera debut as Brünnhilde

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Dec 18, 1899: The golf tee is patented by George Grant.

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Erik Satie would only eat white food.

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Dec 17, 1903: Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight of . . .

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