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'<b><span class="nprnewspacks_title">February 8',
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'1741 -- Opera composer Andre Gretry is born in Liege, Belgium.</li>',
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'1874 -- The opera <i>Boris Godunov</i> by Modest Mussorgsky is first performed in St. Petersburg.</li>',
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'1915 -- American conductor and musicologist Newell Jenkins is born in New Haven, Connecticut. </li>',
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'1932 -- Film composer and former Boston Pops conductor John Williams is born in New York.</li>',
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'1938 -- Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano, is born in Rotterdam.</li>',
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