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ON THIS DAY: Mozart’s The Magic Flute premieres in Vienna (1791)

On 30 September 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) was first performed at the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna....

ON THIS DAY: U2 band is formed in Dublin (1976)

On 25 September 1976, a teenage drummer named Larry Mullen Jr. pinned a note to the noticeboard at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin,...

ON THIS DAY: Composer Manos Loizos dies at 44 (1982)

On 17 September 1982, Greece lost one of its most beloved and influential composers, Manos Loizos, who died in Moscow at the age of...

Eurovision 2026 will be held in Vienna – Final on 16 May

The host city of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 will be Vienna in Austria. The arena will be Wiener Stadthalle, and the dates have...

Ozzy Osbourne, godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76

Osbourne died just weeks after playing his final show with Black Sabbath earlier in July. Ozzy Osbourne, the pioneering heavy metal singer who rose to...

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Eurovision boycott in 2026 grows as four countries withdraw

Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia will boycott the...

Olympic Flame arrives in Rome for Milano-Cortina 2026

The Olympic Flame for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Games...

Wildfire burning in rugged Limassol district

A fire is raging through dry grass and wild...
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