On this day in 451 AD, Roman General Flavius Aetius defeated Attila the Hun at The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, halting the Hun invasion of Roman Gaul.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ewmBYAVL38
Born on this day in 1807 librettist Giovanni Ruffini
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD60zlp-qnE
Born on this day in 1832 composer Johann Joseph Abert
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIQWYuETWfY
Born on this day in 1866 composer Gustave Doret
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeXK7jg15Cc
Born on this day in 1880 composer Ildebrando Pizzetti
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDe1IfTOCpM
Born on this day in 1917 opera director and administrator Göran Gentele
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUU5f9TK350
(no footage from Gentele’s TV production of Verdi’s Masked Ball with Ragnar Ulfung playing a very effete Gustav III)
Happy 90th birthday singer Gogi Grant
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHMWkFuIB-k
Happy 80th birthday actress Sophia Loren
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4fKJ86GiGg
