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Me and Juliet is a musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II. The story deals with romance between the cast and crew backstage at a long-running musical, a show-within-the-show (also named Me and Juliet). The musical premiered in 1953 and ran for almost a year on Broadway, closing after it exhausted its advance sales. It received no Tony Award nominations. The play required complex machinery, designed by Jo Mielziner, so that the audience could view action not only on the stage but also in the wings and high above the stage near the spotlights. The show garnered less than favorable reviews, though Mielziner's staging won praise from audiences and critics. With the exception of a short run in Chicago, there was no national tour, and the show is rarely seen—although a small-scale production was presented by London's Finborough Theatre in 2010. "No Other Love" from the show became a hit record in 1953 for Perry Como and in 1956 for Ronnie Hilton. (Full article...)

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The Basque separatist militant group ETA disarms itself.
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April 15: Day of the Sun in North Korea

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769 – The Lateran Council concluded proceedings intended to rectify abuses in the papal electoral process that had led to the elevation of the antipopes Constantine II and Philip.
1802 – English poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy encountered a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring him to pen his most famous work, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".
1927 – Torrential rains caused the Mississippi River to break out of its levee system in at least 145 places, resulting in the worst flooding in the history of the United States.
1947 – Jackie Robinson (pictured), the first African American to break the baseball color line, played his first game in Major League Baseball.
1989 – A human crush during an FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, caused 96 deaths, making it the worst disaster in British sporting history.

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Tribuna of the Uffizi is an oil painting completed by Johan Zoffany between 1772 and 1778. It shows the north-east section of the Tribuna room in the Uffizi in Florence, Italy. Among the numerous paintings included within this work are Raphael's Madonna della seggiola, Titian's Venus of Urbino, and Justus Sustermans' Portrait of Galileo Galilei. Tribuna of the Uffizi is part of the United Kingdom's Royal Collection.

Painting: Johan Zoffany

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