On This Day in History (da Enciclopédia Britânica)

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More Events On This Day In History

1926:		Giacomo Puccini’s uncompleted opera Turandot was performed posthumously at La Scala under the direction of Arturo Toscanini.
1915:		The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) landed at Gallipoli in western Turkey during the Dardanelles Campaign of World War I.
1874:		Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian physicist who invented a successful system of radio telegraphy (1896) and received the Nobel Prize for Physics (1909), was born.
1809:		The Treaty of Amritsar, which settled Indo-Sikh relations for a generation, was concluded between Charles T. Metcalfe, representing the British East India Company, and Ranjit Singh, head of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab.
1792:		The first guillotine was erected, on the Place de Grève in Paris, to execute a highwayman.
1781:		Petersburg, Virginia, was captured by British troops under William Phillips and Benedict Arnold during the American Revolution.