Source: Good News Network
On this day 115 years ago, Puccini’s Italian opera Madama Butterfly premiered. The heart-wrenching love story of a beautiful geisha who sacrifices her family, religion, and more, for her American husband, Lieutenant Pinkerton, who buys the 15-year-old’s hand in marriage while stationed in Japan–with no intention of taking her home to America.
HEAR the beautiful aria sung by the great American Maria Callas… (1904)–Photo by tobze, CC license
MORE Good News on this Date:
- The Armory Show opened in New York City as the first large exhibition of modern art in America featuring the impressionists of Europe (1913)
- The world’s first comic superhero, The Phantom, published (1936)
- Pope Pius XII declared the patron saint of television: Saint Clare [1193~1253] of Assisi (1958)
- Kosovo declared independence (2008)
Happy Birthday to Michael Jordan, who turns 56 today. Considered by many to be the greatest basketball player of all-time, he’s a 6-time NBA champ and 5-time MVP.
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