His Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre situated in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster, London. It stands on the site of the Queen's Theatre (1705) designed by John Vanbrugh, where more than 25 operas by George Frideric Handel premiered. The present building, designed by Charles J. Phipps, was constructed in 1897 for the actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who established the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) there. In the early 20th century, the theatre hosted spectacular productions of Shakespeare and other classical works, and premieres by such playwrights as Bernard Shaw and Noël Coward. The theatre's capacity is 1,216 seats, and it was Grade II* listed by English Heritage in 1970. LW Theatres has owned the building since 2000. The land beneath it is on a long-term lease from the Crown Estate. Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera has run at His Majesty's since 1986. It was known as "Her Majesty's Theatre" during the reigns of Victoria and Elizabeth II.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1792:

French Revolution: Due to an overwhelming fear that foreign armies would attack Paris and prisoners would revolt, revolutionaries began the summary execution of more than a thousand prisoners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_Massacres

1946:

The interim government of India, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru, was formed to assist the transition of India from British rule to independence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru

1957:

South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm began an official visit to Australia, the first by a foreign incumbent head of state to the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem_presidential_visit_to_Australia

1967:

Paddy Roy Bates proclaimed HM Fort Roughs, a former World War II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, England, as an independent sovereign state: the Principality of Sealand (pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

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e.g.: 1. An initialism used to introduce an illustrative example or short list of examples: for the sake of an example; for example. 2. (informal, nonstandard, proscribed) An example. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/e.g.

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