CoM Moderators Posted October 22, 2023 Posted October 22, 2023 1721 - Tsar Peter the Great titles himself "Emperor of All Russia" 1906 - Henry Ford becomes President of Ford Motor Company 1922 - Parsifal Place laid out in Bronx, NY, named after a knight in Wagner's opera 1929 - 8th French government of Aristide Briand falls 1929 - James H Scullin forms Australia government 1930 - 1st concert of BBC Symphony Orchestra, at Queen's Hall, under Adrian Boult 1942 - Operation Flagpole: US Major General Mark Clark and Brigadier General Lyman Lemnitzer meet Vichy French Général Charles Mast secretly in small fishing village of Cherchell, Algeria to finalize plans for Allied Invasion of North Africa 1987 - American composer John Adams's first opera, "Nixon in China", premieres at the Houston Grand Opera, in Houston, Texas 2004 - Discovery and isolation of new wonder material Graphene announced in paper by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov (Nobel Prize 2010). Incredibly they used scotch tape to peal layers off Graphite. 2005 - Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms. More Historical Events »
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