On This Day: June 10 Today is the World Art Nouveau Day 1692 | Roscongress Direct
On This Day: June 10
Today is the World Art Nouveau Day
1692 – The first victim of the Salem witch trials, Bridget Bishop, is hanged for witchcraft in the colony of Massachusetts
1793 – The world's first public zoo opens in Paris
1865 – Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde premieres in Munich, Germany
1921 – The Yasnaya Polyana State Museum and Estate of Leo Tolstoy founded. The writer lived in the village of Yasnaya Polyana for some 60 years and wrote War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and other works here.
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