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2012 Event - Salvatore J. Cordileone is appointed the ninth Metropolitan Archbishop of San Francisco by Pope Benedict XVI

2012 Event - The China Central Television Headquarters, designed by the Officer for Metropolitan Architecture, a firm based in Rotterdam ten years ago, is finally completed in Beijing

2011 Event - In Tokyo, the Metropolitan Government Bureau of Waterworks reports that radioactive iodine in city tap water is two times the recommended level for infants

1996 Event - Metropolitan Transportation Authority raises New York City bridge tolls to $3.50 each way

1995 Event - New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority raises subway and bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50

1995 Death - Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, russion Orthodox Priest, dies at 68

1995 Event - Dean St. Station in Brooklyn, is 6th Metropolitan Transportation Authority station to close since 1904

1993 Event - Cigarette advertisements are banned in New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority

1992 Event - Metropolitan Transportation Authority begins installing automated fare collection turnstiles

1992 Event - New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority votes to ban cigarette ads on Jan 1, 1993

1992 Event - Metropolitan Transportation Authority raised tolls on most New York City bridges from $2.50 to $3.00

1990 Event - New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority stops token redemption at subway stations

1989 Event - New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority opens 63rd street extension to subway

1988 Event - New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes

1982 Death - Maria Jeritza, Jedlicka, Australia/US, singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies

1982 Event - Metropolitan Transportation Authority launches a 5 year plan to upgrade the New York City subway system

1981 Event - Last game at Minn's Metropolitan Stadium, lose to Kansas City 5-2

1981 Death - Rosa Ponselle, U.S. singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies at 84

1976 Event - Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at New York's Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata"

1972 Event - Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos

1966 Event - Metropolitan Opera opens at New York's Lincoln Center

1966 Event - Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center

1965 Event - 36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minn

1958 Event - Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium

1950 Birthday - Maria Ewing, born in Detroit, Michigan, opera singer, soprano, mezzo-soprano, debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 'The Marriage of Figaro', 1976

1948 Birthday - Catherine Malfitano, born in New York City, soprano, Metropolitan Opera

1943 Birthday - James Levine, musical conductor, Tosca, dir, Metropolitan Opera

1943 Event - Metropolitan Life Insurances issues a $225 million check to Chase

1932 Birthday - Christopher Price, Director, Leeds Metropolitan U

1931 Event - New Yorks's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio

1931 Birthday - John Dellow, commisioner, London Metropolitan Police

1927 Birthday - Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, Russion Orthodox Priest

1925 Birthday - David McNee, commissioner, Metropolitan Police

1923 Birthday - Cesare Siepi, Milan Italy, basso, New York Metropolitan Opera

1919 Birthday - Antony Tudor, born in England, choreographer, Metropolitan Opera 1957

1917 Event - Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes

1917 Birthday - Robert Merrill, born in Brooklyn, New York, baritone, New York Metropolitan Opera

1916 Birthday - Eleanor Steber, born in Wheeling, West Virginia, soprano, Metropolitan Opera-1940

1911 Birthday - Leonard Warren, born in New York City, baritone, Metropolitan Opera 1939 - 1960

1908 Event - Arturo Tuscanini begins conducting New York's Metropolitan Opera

1907 Event - G Mahler conducts the Metropolitan Opera

1907 Birthday - John Canaday, art critic, Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios

1903 Event - Enrico Caruso U.S. debut (Metropolitan Opera House, New York) in "Rigoletto"

1902 Birthday - Rudolph Bing, opera manager, New York Metropolitan Opera

1898 Death - John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway), dies

1897 Birthday - George Szell, born in Budapest, Hungary, conductor, Metropolitan 1942-45

1896 Birthday - Lawrence Tibbett, Bakersfield California, baritone, Metropolitan 1923-50

1892 Event - New York City Metropolitan Opera House catches fire

1883 Event - Original Metropolitan Opera House (New York City) grand opening (Faust)

1881 Event - Metropolitan club plays its last game of its non-league season They win 80 of 151 games (18-43 versus NL teams)

1872 Event - Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time

1872 Event - Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City

1870 Event - Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in New York City

1868 Event - Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms

1867 Birthday - Otto Hermann Kahn, Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Co

1866 Event - New York Legislature forms New York City Metropolitan Board of Health

1829 Event - London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard)

1829 Event - Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)

1817 Birthday - John Fowler, English engineer, London Metropolitan Railway

1693 Death - Dodoftei, Romanian metropolitan of Moldavia/writer (Saint Lives), dies

1569 Death - St. Philip, metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible

1448 Event - Bishop Jona of Moscow chosen as metropolitan of Kiev/Intoxication

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