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october 28th in history: what happened

In 1893, for the first time performed "Pathetic" Symphony of composer Peter Tchaikovsky (September 16, old style) In 1908, the first in the history of the Russian Empire short feature film "Lowered Volnitsa" was released on film screens

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october 28th in history: what happened

In 1893, the composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s “Pathetic” Symphony was performed for the first time in public (September 16 in the old style)

In 1908, the first short feature film in the history of the Russian Empire, Ponyzova Volnitsa, was released on film screens.

On this day, but in 1914, Kodak announced the beginning of work on the development of color photography technologies.

In 1965, one of the largest monuments in the world was opened in the United States – the 192-meter steel arch “Gateway to the West”.

On October 28, the Scottish surgeon-innovator, inventor Robert Liston (1794), the Italian opera singer, who had a unique voice in terms of volume - from high soprano to contralto, a range of 2.5 octaves - Judith Pasta (1798), the French restaurateur, author of cookery books Georges Auguste Escoffier (1846), the Japanese martial artist, the creator of judo Jigoro Kano (1860).

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