Happend on 27. August 1896
Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (9:02 to 9:40) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
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I suppose Der Rosenkavalier would be my favourite, because I've known it longer than any other opera; I saw it for the first time when I was in high school. It's really an unalloyed pleasure for me to go to these things-sort of uninformed.
Sam Waterston