📅 Sydney Opera House opens (1973)
Where: Sydney, Australia
📅 On This Day: October 20
October 20, 1973: Sydney Opera House opens. On this day in 1973, the Sydney Opera House, with its seashell-like roofs, opened. It was designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon and took 14 years to build. Its roofs are covered with more than a million white tiles.
✨ More events on this day
- 1891 🔬 Physicist James Chadwick was born in England. He discovered the neutron, one of the tiny particles inside the centre of every atom, and won a Nobel Prize.
- 1923 🎨 Children's author Otfried Preußler was born in what is now the Czech Republic. He wrote The Little Witch and The Robber Hotzenplotz, read by children in many languages.
- 2018 🚀 BepiColombo, a joint mission of Europe and Japan, launched toward Mercury, the smallest planet and the one closest to the Sun.
🧠 Question of the day
What covers the roofs of the Sydney Opera House?
- Gold leaf
- Grass and soil
- White tiles
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Answer: White tiles
🐾 World day: International Sloth Day
Sloths move so slowly that algae grows in their fur. The AIUNAU Foundation in Colombia started this day in 2010.
Questions
What happened on October 20?
October 20, 1973: Sydney Opera House opens. It happened in Sydney, Australia.
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