1735 - The first colonial-produced opera, "Flora," was performed in Charleston, South Carolina.
          130 years later (1865), the city's mayor evidently thought the possibility of prison would be a
          better sentence than a lifetime of opera (or that it would scare them away once they got in),
          surrendering Charleston to Union Brigadier General Alexander Schimmelfennig

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*Would one of our German komeraden confirm that this is an actual surname and not someone with a
          mouthful of coins?

1930 - Given title as the ninth planet of our solar system, the planetoid (in contrast to Disney's
         cartoon canine -- another little fellow starring in bigger circles) Pluto, was discovered at the
         Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, by astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh.

Would you say it means something like Old or Mouldy Money, sort of like James Bond's Moneypenny?