- 1726 Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Opera of Paris
Event of Interest
1891 Music Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in New York, Tchaikovsky is guest conductor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 1900 "The Billboard" began weekly publication
Music Premiere
1927 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Symphony premieres in Berlin
Dmitri Shostakovich
#1 in the Charts
1962 "West Side Story" soundtrack album goes #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
Rita Moreno
- 1967 The Kinks release "Waterloo Sunset" as a single; peaks at #2 on the British charts
- 1971 Courtney, Courtney, and Link's musical "Earl of Ruston" opens at Billy Rose Theater, NYC, runs for 5 performances
- 1984 29th Eurovision Song Contest: Herreys for Sweden wins singing "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" in Luxembourg
- 1986 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announces Cleveland, Ohio chosen as the site of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum
- 1990 35th Eurovision Song Contest: Toto Cutugno for Italy wins singing "Insieme: 1992" in Zagreb
Event of Interest
1992 American country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection
Tammy Wynette
Music Awards
1999 34th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Faith Hill & Tim McGraw win
Garth Brooks
Faith Hill
Tim McGraw
- 2015 "Traveller" debut album by Chris Stapleton is released (Grammy Award Best Country Album, 2016; Billboard Album of the Year, 2016)
Music Single
2018 Childish Gambino [Donald Glover] releases the music video to new single "This is America" to wide acclaim
Donald Glover
