A CHRONOLOGICAL VIEW OF WESTERN MUSIC HISTORY IN THE CONTEXT OF WORLD EVENTS

Alessandro Striggio

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February 29, 1592: Alessandro Striggio dies in Mantua, in the Duchy of Mantua, aged approximately 55 years.
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Today in Music and History: November 23
1985: Arab gunmen seize an Egyptian airliner en route from Athens to Cairo. A shootout with a security guard leaves one hijacker dead. A bullet piercing the fuselage depressurizes the cabin necessitating an emergency landing in Malta. Eleven women are freed but two Israelis and three Americans are shot and thrown from the plane (two of them will later die of their wounds).
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