** Metropolitan Street Railway's Broadway Line

** Metropolitan Street Railway's Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line

** Metropolitan Street Railway's Broadway and Lexington Avenue Line

** Metropolitan Philip II of Moscow

** Greater St. Louis ( Metropolitan Statistical Area )

** Metropolitan Edison

** Metropolitan District Railway – green

** Metropolitan Railway – red

** SSR ( Sub Surface Railway ): Metropolitan, District, Circle and Hammersmith & City lines

** Community Safety, Enforcement and Policing, responsible for tackling fare evasion on buses, delivering policing services that tackle crime and disorder on public transport in cooperation with the Metropolitan Police Service's Transport Operational Command Unit ( TOCU ) and the British Transport Police.

** Ten paintings are defaced in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

** At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 ( a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 ( a Boeing 727 ) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.

** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U. S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

** Metropolitan Benjamin ( Fedchenkov ), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America ( b. 1880 )

** The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City to the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera, Antony and Cleopatra.

** Northwest Airlines Flight 255 ( a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 ) crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan just west of Detroit killing all but one ( 4-year old Cecelia Cichan ) of the 156 people on board.

** Metropolitan Benjamin ( Fedchenkov ), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America ( d. 1961 )

** Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia ( d. 1646 )

** Jonah Metropolitan of Moscow

** Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow ( died 1406 )

** Columbia, Missouri Metropolitan Area

** Columbia, South Carolina Metropolitan Area

** Gerontius, Metropolitan of Moscow, bishop

** Theodosius, Metropolitan of Moscow

** Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, formed in 1900 and abolished in 1965

** Greek and Latin Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Graeca, with Analytical Indexes and Concordances ( Lexicon Proprium )

** Alexander Gibson, British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera

** The Grand Opera House in Cincinnati is destroyed in a fire.

** Bertolt Brecht, German playwright ( Threepenny Opera ) ( b. 1898 )

** The Egyptian Opera House ( Khedivial Opera House ) burns down in Cairo.

** The Phantom of the Opera, the longest running Broadway show in history, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.

** An anarchist bomb kills six in a police station in Avenue de l ' Opera, Paris.

** John Gay's Ballad Opera The Beggar's Opera

** Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Latina, vol.

** Friedrich Cerha's completion of Alban Berg's opera Lulu is premiered at the Opera Garnier in Paris.

** Erik Smith ( producer ), Colin Davis ( conductor ), the Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus & various artists for Berlioz: Les Troyens

** Erik Smith ( producer ), Colin Davis ( conductor ), various artists & the Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus for Berlioz: Les Troyens

** Gaston Leroux-Le Fantôme de l ' Opéra ( The Phantom of the Opera )

** Thomas Z. Shepard ( producer ), John De Main ( conductor ), Donnie Albert, Carol Brice, Clamma Dale & the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra for Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

** Erik Smith ( producer ), Colin Davis ( conductor ), Richard van Allan, Janet Baker, Montserrat Caballe, Ileana Contrubas, Vladimiro Ganzarolli, Nicolai Gedda & the Royal Opera House Orchestra for Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte

** Halle Opera House

** Vittorio Negri ( producer ), Colin Davis ( conductor ), Heather Harper, Jonathan Summers, Jon Vickers & the Royal Opera House Orchestra for Britten: Peter Grimes

** George Sponhaltz, John Coveney ( producers ), Julius Rudel ( conductor ), Beverly Sills, Alan Titus & the New York City Opera Orchestra for Lehár: The Merry Widow

** Tom Mowrey ( producer ), Leonard Bernstein ( conductor ), Marilyn Horne, Tom Krause, Adriana Maliponte, James McCracken 7 the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus for Bizet: Carmen

** Georg Solti ( conductor ), the Vienna Boys Choir, the Vienna Singverein Chorus, the Vienna State Opera Chorus, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & various artists for Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E Flat ( Symphony of a Thousand )

** Martin Sauer ( producer ), Kent Nagano ( conductor ), Kenn Chester, Jerry Hadley, Samuel Ramey, Cheryl Studer, & the Orchestre of Opera De Lyon & Chorus for Floyd: Susannah