Music Premiere
1808 Beethoven's Symphonies No. 5 and No. 6, Choral Fantasy and Piano Concerto No. 4 (featuring the composer as soloist) premiere at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria
Ludwig van Beethoven
Event of Interest
1894 Claude Debussy's first orchestral masterpiece "Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune" premieres in Paris
Claude Debussy
Film Premier
1932 Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers 1st joint movie "Flying Down to Rio," directed by Thornton Freeland, premieres in NYC
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
- 1946 "Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 54 performances
- 1956 "New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 performances
- 1958 "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1
- 1958 "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 56 performances
- 1976 "Your Arm's Too Short..." opens at Lyceum NYC for 429 performances
- 1976 East Germany grants rock singer Nina Hagen her request to leave the country, after refusing her stepfather re-entry
Event of Interest
1978 Kenney Jones becomes The Who's new drummer, replacing the deceased Keith Moon
Keith Moon
- 1985 "Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 performances
- 1994 "Christmas Carol" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 18 performances
