20 October 1973 Posted on October 19, 2012 by Staff The Sydney Opera House is opened. Famous Words of Inspiration..."Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other." Mahatma Gandhi — Click here for more from Mahatma Gandhi Related posts: 6 October 1973 8 March 1983 30 March 1981 11 August 1984 20 October 1967