On this day in 1950 Irving Berlin‘s musical Call Me Madam opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre to run 644 performances.

Happy birthday soprano Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs.

Born on this day in 1935 tenor Luciano Pavarotti.

Birthday anniversaries of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872), soprano Gilda Dalla Rizza (1892), bass Herbert Alsen (1906), conductor Jerzy Semkow (1928) and tenor Bruce Brewer (1941),