On this day in 1938, two Met debuts in La bohème: tenor Jussi Bjoerling and soprano Mafalda Favero.

On this day 30 years ago Mystery Science Theatre 3000 premiered on on KTMA, a cable access channel in Minneapolis. This program, which Our Own JJ first viewed in 1990 on The Comedy Channel, was a seminal influence on parterre box.

Birthday anniversary of soprano Lilli Lehmann (1848).

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