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

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

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

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

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

1992 Metropolitan Transportation Authority begins installing automated fare collection turnstiles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1976 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 Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos

1966 Metropolitan Opera opens at New York's Lincoln Center

1966 Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center

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

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

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

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

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

1932 Christopher Price, Director, Leeds Metropolitan U

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

1931 John Dellow, commisioner, London Metropolitan Police

1927 Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, Russion Orthodox Priest

1925 David McNee, commissioner, Metropolitan Police

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

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

1917 Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes

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

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

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

1908 Arturo Tuscanini begins conducting New York's Metropolitan Opera

1907 G Mahler conducts the Metropolitan Opera

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

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

1902 Rudolph Bing, opera manager, New York Metropolitan Opera

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

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

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

1892 New York City Metropolitan Opera House catches fire

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

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

1872 Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time

1872 Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City

1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in New York City

1868 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms

1867 Otto Hermann Kahn, Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Co

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

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

1829 Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)

1817 John Fowler, English engineer, London Metropolitan Railway

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

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

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


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