CIIC:Selected anniversaries/February 5

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My Fair Lady staged in 1957.

1957: The Central Experimental Opera House performed My Fair Lady. This is the first time in Chinese history that a Western classic opera was staged in China with Chinese performers only.

1964: The first operation of auto-transplant of bone marrow succeeded in China. Bone marrow from a twin sister of the same egg was transplanted into her sick sister suffering from regenerative anemia.

1994: Qian Zhiguang, founder of New China’s modern textile industry, died.