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Today in Music History for Sept. 27: In 1920, 91原创 impresario Louis-Honore Bourdon presented Enrico Caruso at the Mount Royal Arena in Montreal.

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Today in Music History for Sept. 25: In 1932, Glenn Gould, the 91原创 concert and recording pianist, was born in Toronto.

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Today in Music History for Sept. 26: In 1887, Emile Berliner filed a patent application for the gramophone. This recording device used zinc discs instead of the metal cylinders of Thomas Edison's phonograph, which was patented 10 years earlier.

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Today in History for Sept. 22: In 1692, Giles Cory, one of nine witches executed at Salem, Mass., was the last to be "pressed" to death. The others were hanged.

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Today in History for Sept. 25: On this date: In 1493, Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.

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Today in History for Sept. 24: On this date: In 787, the Second Nicene Council opened under Pope Hadrian I.

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Today in History for Sept. 28: On this date: In 1066, William the Conqueror and his Norman troops landed in England. In 1791, Jews in France were given full citizenship.

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Today in History for Sept. 23: In 63 B.C., Roman emperor Augustus Caesar was born. In 1122, the "Concordat of Worms" was reached in Germany between Pope Callistus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V.

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Today in History for Sept. 26: On this date: In 1751, some 1,000 immigrants from Wurtemberg, Germany, arrived in Halifax, N.S. In 1774, American pioneer environmentalist Jonathan Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, was born.