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On this day in 1497 Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.

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On this day in 1497 Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE9yFAuYY9o&start=288

Born on this day in 1770 composer Ludwig van Beethoven
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHqmIbo8sdI

Born on this day in 1775 composer Adrien Boieldieu (the father, not the son)
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBaf2DWCqyc

Born on this day in 1877 conductor Artur Bodanzky
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNNw5xlgjZ8

Born on this day in 1882 composer Zoltán Kodály
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OVlCCzq2nM

Born on this day in 1899 composer, playwright and actor Noel Coward
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcBr3rosvNQ

Born on this day in 1926 tenor James McCracken
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIIzL2OSQOM

Born on this day in 1929 tenor Donald Grobe
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWElkn7g684

Happy 82nd birthday composer Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQib7IEmDtA

Born on this day in 1939 tenor Philip Langridge
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jcvfH_DyHQ

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