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An American poet and sonnet writer who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
An Indian mathematician and autodidact known for his extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory and infinite series.
One of the greatest British actress who is remembered for her role in the film A Passage of India (Oscar) and the TV series The Jewel in the Crown.
An American Major League Baseball player nicknamed "Lefty.”
After studying music at the Milan Conservatory, in 1884, he wrote his first opera, Le Villi (The Witches).
Congress passes the Embargo Act, which bars trading between the United States and European nations.
The first voice synthesizer, later known as P.T. Barnum's Euphonium, is demonstrated to the public.
French officer Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason by a military court-martial.
The U.S. Golf Association is founded.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill begin their first official conference in Washington, D.C
the story of Uruguayan Air Force flight 571 was one of the great survival epics if the last century. When the plane crashed high in the Andes, survivors managed to stay alive in freezing cold for ten weeks.
Italian composer, was born on 22, December 1858, in Lucca, Italy. After studying music at the Milan Conservatory, in 1884, he wrote his first opera, Le Villi (The Witches). His third opera, Manon Lescaut (1893), was hailed as the work of a genius. Puccini's compatriot and Ruggero Leoncavallo wrote an opera entitled La Boheme (1897). Both composers based their work on the novel Scenes de la vie de Boheme (Scenes from Bohemian Life, 1847-1849) by French writer Henri Murger, which describes the carefree, sometimes happy, sometimes sad, life of the young artists of Paris's Latin Quarter. In this opera Puccini employed the impressionistic style of French composer Claude Debussy and the realistic imitations of life used by composer Pietro Mascagni, but he also added his own mixture of humor, charm, spirit, and sensuality. Puccini's later operas, Tosca (1900) was very successful from the outset in spite of its almost sadistic libretto, which brings murder, suicide, and torture to the stage. The music displays not only dramatic fire, but frequently, a surprising delicacy and lyric fervor. Madame Butterfly drew hisses at La Scala in Milan on opening night. After the unfriendly reception, Puccini withdrew the opera to revise its score completely, and the new version was performed with greater success three months later.
He died on 29, November 1924, in Belgium.
Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal