On this day in 1969, ABC-TV telecast Duke Ellington and members of his band celebrating the first moon landing by performing his composition “Moon Maiden.” 

Born on this day in 1751 librettist Luigi Romanelli

Born on this day in 1906 soprano Annelies Kupper

Happy 83rd birthday opera director Jonathan Miller

Born on this day in 1936 soprano Ursula Schröder-Feinen