Source: Good News Network
45 years ago today, the Sydney Opera House opened as a multiple venue performing arts center after a design by Danish architect Jørn Utzon won a competition in 1957 to create the iconic structure in Sydney Harbor in Australia. (1973)
Photo by Bernard Spragg, NZ
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