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Born in Downtown Las Angeles
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John decides in high school he wants to be a writer
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Cage enrols in Pomona College in Claremont as a theology major
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Goes here to study music and gets lessons from Cowel
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invention of the prepared piano—a piano which has had its sound altered by objects placed on, beneath or between the strings
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Cage writes "Dad" and "Crete" (named after his parents)
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Cage composed the piece that became his best-known and most controversial creation: 4′33″.
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dies of natural causes
