On this day in 1955 the Richard Adler – Jerry Ross musical Damn Yankees opened on Broadway

Birthday anniversaries of composers Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819) and Hans Pfitzner (1869),
soprano Yelena Andreyevna Stepanova (1891),
conductor Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900),
soprano Maria Caniglia (1905),
and bass Kurt Böhme (1908)