This day in music history.

October 28, 1893 - At the age of 53 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted his first public performance of his Symphony Number Six in B minor "Pathetique.
He started piano studies at the age of five and soon showed a remarkable gift. His mother died when he was 14, they say after this he composed day and night for some time.
He grew deeply depressed as he got older as he was not able to accept his homosexuality. He thought marrying a women could cure him but it only made things worse as he did not love his wife. Six weeks after their marriage he tried to commit suicide and she left him. They were never officially divorced.
The day after premiering "Pathetique" Tchaikovsky started taking small doses of arsenic. He did not want anyone to know it was suicide so his death was planned to be consistent with symptoms of cholera. His death took several days. His widow died in an insane asylum 24 years later.
"What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love." -Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky-
DLAK note: Thats what I call the Stephen King rule, lol