** Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first woman governor in the United States.

** Nellie Lutcher, American singer ( d. 2007 )

** Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.

** Nellie massacre: over 2, 000 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslims, are massacred in Assam, India, during the Assam agitation.

** Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to be named director of the United States Mint.

** Nellie Bly, American undercover journalist ( b. 1864 )

** Nellie Fox, American baseball player ( d. 1975 )

** Women's all-around champion: Nellie Kim, USSR

** Nellie Briercliffe, singer and actress ( d. 1966 )

** Ten Days in a Mad-House, and other early investigative reports by Nellie Bly

** Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

** Nellie Connally ( left middle )

** Benedictine Serinus Melba, a singer who claims to be pregnant by Chib.

** Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado ( composers ), Andy Wiswell ( producer ) the original cast ( Ronnie Dyson, Gerome Ragni, Steve Curry, Lamont Washington, Diane Keaton, Melba Moore & James Rado ) for Hair.

** Melba

Though opera patronage has decreased in the last century in favor of other arts and media ( such as musicals, cinema, radio, television and recordings ), mass media and the advent of recording have supported the popularity of many famous singers including Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Kirsten Flagstad, Mario Del Monaco, Risë Stevens, Alfredo Kraus, Franco Corelli, Montserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Nellie Melba, Rosa Ponselle, Beniamino Gigli, Jussi Björling, Feodor Chaliapin, and " The Three Tenors " ( Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras ).

* February 23 – Dame Nellie Melba, Australian soprano ( b. 1861 )

The first production of the opera actually produced by the Royal Opera House itself premiered on 1 July 1899 with Nellie Melba as Mimì, Zélie de Lussan as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Mario Ancona as Marcello.

The Metropolitan Opera staged the work for the first time on 26 December 1900 with Nellie Melba as Mimì, Annita Occhiolini-Rizzini as Musetta, Albert Saléza as Rodolfo, Giuseppe Campanari as Marcello, and Luigi Mancinelli conducting.

* Monaco: 1 February 1902, Opéra de Monte-Carlo in Monte Carlo with Nellie Melba as Mimì, Enrico Caruso as Rodolfo, Alexis Boyer as Marcello, and Léon Jehin conducting.

In the pattern of foods named after famous singers and dancers, Dame Nellie Melba also has several dishes named after her, well known is Melba toasts and the Peach Melba, but also less well known is the Chicken Melba, recipes of which can be found in Larousse Gastronomique.

A newspaper article from January 1927 claims an American ice-cream was named after Pavlova: " Dame Nellie Melba, of course, has found fame apart from her art in the famous sweet composed of peaches and cream, while Mme.

Notable Australian musicians include: the opera singers Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland ; country music stars Slim Dusty ( Australia's biggest selling domestic artist ) and John Williamson ; solo artists John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John, Pub rock band Cold Chisel, folk-rocker Paul Kelly ; Dance group The Avalanches ; jazz guitarist Tommy Emmanuel ; pioneer rocker Johnny O ' Keefe, global folk-rock band The Seekers, global rock and pop bands Men At Work, The EasyBeats, Air Supply, Crowded House, AC / DC, INXS, Little River Band, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Midnight Oil, Dragon, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger ; the " pop princess " Kylie Minogue, Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the John Butler Trio, Xavier Rudd, Wolfmother, Tame Impala and The Vines.

By the early years of the twentieth century, the Salle Garnier was to see such great performers as Nellie Melba and Enrico Caruso in La Bohème and Rigoletto ( in 1902 ), and Feodor Chaliapin in the premiere of Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte ( 1910 ).

Major artistes who appeared with the society during this time included Paderewski, Hubert Parry, Nellie Melba, and Clara Butt.

At the close of the 19th century, the art of the Heidelberg School began to capture the unique colours of the Australian bush, famed writers Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson presented conflicting views of the harshness and romance of life in Australia, and performing artists like Dame Nellie Melba succeeded internationally in the traditional European arts.

Leading Australian performers in these fields have included the opera Dames Nellie Melba and Joan Sutherland, dancers Edouard Borovansky and Sir Robert Helpmann, and choreographer / dancers such as Graeme Murphy and Meryl Tankard.

Mark Twain, Nellie Melba, Laurence Olivier and Barry Humphries have all performed on this historic stage.

Dame Nellie Melba ( 1861-1931 ).

Nellie Melba ( 1861 – 1931 ) travelled to Europe in 1886 to commence her international career as an opera singer.

It is named after Dame Nellie Melba, the stage name of Australian opera singer Helen Porter Mitchell.

03033 ) performed by Dame Nellie Melba with Jan Kubelík on violin.

On 15 June 1920 the factory was the location of the first official publicised sound broadcast in the United Kingdom, featuring Dame Nellie Melba using two radio broadcasting masts.

On 15 June 1920, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Limited, in Chelmsford, Essex, was licensed to conduct an experimental broadcast from the New Street Works factory, featuring Dame Nellie Melba.

On 12 June 1906, after 50 years on the stage, a star-studded gala performance was held at the Drury Lane Theatre for Terry's benefit and to celebrate her golden jubilee, at which Enrico Caruso sang, W. S. Gilbert directed a performance of Trial by Jury, Eleanora Duse, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Lillie Langtry, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Nellie Melba, and more than twenty members of Terry's family performed in an act of Much Ado about Nothing with her, among other performances.

Notable among them were the brothers Jean and Edouard de Reszke, Lilli Lehmann, Emma Calvé, Lillian Nordica, Nellie Melba, Marcella Sembrich, Milka Ternina, Emma Eames, Sofia Scalchi, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Francesco Tamagno, Francisco Vignas, Jean Lassalle, Mario Ancona, Victor Maurel, Antonio Scotti and Pol Plançon.

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