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100 years ago today, The Phantom of the Opera, an American silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel of the same name, was released, premiering at the Astor Theatre in New York. (infosec.pub)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_(1925_film)

In 1953, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the film's distributor Universal Pictures did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.

🖝 The Phantom of the Opera, in black and white (24 fps)

🖝 The Phantom of the Opera, with tinting (20 fps)

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100 years ago today, Andrea Camilleri, an Italian writer, was born. He was best known for his Salvo Montalbano crime novels. (en.wikipedia.org)
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100 years ago today, Homer Lane, an American-born educator, died. He believed that the behavior and character of children improved when they were given more control over their lives. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Source for the date of death: https://web.archive.org/web/20100508033010/https://www.childrenwebmag.com/articles/key-child-care-texts/homer-lane-and-the-little-commonwealth-by-elsie-bazeley

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100 years ago today, USS Shenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, representatives from the Empire of Japan and the Allied powers signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, formally ending World War II. (en.wikipedia.org)
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150 years ago today, Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American writer, was born. He created the characters Tarzan and John Carter. (en.wikipedia.org)
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75 years ago today, TWA Flight 903 crashed near Itay El Barud, Egypt, killing all 55 aboard. (en.wikipedia.org)
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10 years ago today, Oliver Sacks, a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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10 years ago today, Wes Craven, an American film director, screenwriter and producer, died. Amongst his prolific filmography, Craven worked primarily in the horror genre, particularly slasher films. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today, the first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was published in Great Britain. (en.wikipedia.org)
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60 years ago today, Le Corbusier, a Swiss-French architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer, died. He was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. (en.wikipedia.org)
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170 years ago today, Lidia Poët, the first modern female Italian lawyer, was born. Her disbarment led to a movement to allow women to practice law and hold public office in Italy. (en.wikipedia.org)
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190 years ago today, the first Great Moon Hoax article was published in The New York Sun, announcing the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon. (en.wikipedia.org)
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75 years ago today, Willy DeVille, an American singer and songwriter, was born. During his thirty-five-year career, DeVille created songs rooted in traditional American musical styles. (en.wikipedia.org)
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30 years ago today, Microsoft released Windows 95, a consumer-oriented operating system, to the public in North America. It was the first of its Windows 9x family of operating systems. (en.wikipedia.org)
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250 years ago today, King George III delivered his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's, stating that the American colonies had proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion. (en.wikipedia.org)
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57 years ago today, Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania, publicly condemned the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. (en.wikipedia.org)
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85 years ago today, in Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was fatally wounded with an ice axe by Stalinist agent Ramón Mercader. He died the next day. (en.wikipedia.org)
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445 years ago today, Andrea Palladio, an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic, died. He was influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius. (en.wikipedia.org)
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175 years ago today, Honoré de Balzac, a French novelist and playwright, died. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine is generally viewed as his magnum opus. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, the satirical allegorical novella Animal Farm by George Orwell was first published. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam symbolically handed over land to the Gurindji people after the eight-year Wave Hill walk-off. (www.abc.net.au)
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75 years ago today, measuring Mw 8.6, the largest earthquake on land occured in the Assam-Tibet-Myanmar border, killing 4,800. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in London, the first in its record-breaking run in cinemas, which continues in limited release. (en.wikipedia.org)
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45 years ago today, Lech Wałęsa led strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards. (www.britannica.com)
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