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'<b><span class="nprnewspacks_title">November 24</b></span> ',
'<li class="nprnewspacks_teaser">1859 -- Italian soprano Adelina Patti makes her operatic debut at age 16 singing in Donizetti\'s <i>Lucia di Lammermoor</i> in New York.', 
'<li class="nprnewspacks_teaser">1868 -- Date once thought to mark the birth of Scott Joplin, the great ragtime composer, in northeast Texas.  <i>The Grove Dictionary</i> now places Joplin\'s birthdate between July, 1867 and mid-January, 1868.',
'<li class="nprnewspacks_teaser">1934 -- Russian "polystylist" composer Alfred Schnittke is born in Engels.',
'<li class="nprnewspacks_teaser">1938 -- Swedish tenor Jussi Bjoerling makes his debut at the Met in La Boh&egrave;me by Puccini.',
'<li class="nprnewspacks_teaser">1953 -- Tod Machover, M.I.T.-based composer of electronic music, is born in Mt. Vernon, NY.', 

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