On this day in 1965 bass Nicolai Ghiaurov made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Méphistophélès

Birthday anniversaries of tenor Joseph Rogachevsky (1891), contralto Res Fischer (1896), conductors Alberto Erede (1908) and Lamberto Gardelli (1915), bass and composer Jerome Hines (1921), and soprano Ingrid Bjoner (1927).