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1868 - Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime, was born.

On this date in 1868, Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime, was born in Texarkana, Texas. A skilled pianist and composer, Joplin started a 20-year ragtime craze with the release of his composition “Maple Leaf Rag” in 1897, during the Gay Nineties.

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