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Domingo Miguel Bernabe Terradellas

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May 20, 1751: The body of Domingo Miguel Bernabe Terradellas is found floating in the Tiber River in Rome, in the Papal States, aged 40 years.  Accidental drowning is the probable cause although some blame Niccolò Jommelli.
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Today in Music and History: November 23
1909: “The Uprising of the 20,000” begins in New York as young women working in the garment industry in New York, mostly Yiddish-speaking recent immigrants, go on strike for wages, working conditions, and the right to organize. It will last eleven weeks.
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