On this day in 1961 premier danseur Rudolf Nureyev defected from the (then-) Soviet Union to the west via Paris

Birthday anniversaries of tenor Armand Tokatyan (1894),
sopranos Helen Traubel (1899) and Gladys Kuchta (1923),
conductors Willi Boskovsky (1909) Henryk Czyz (1923) and Sergiu Comissiona (1928),
and composer Lucia Dlugoszewski (1934)

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