- 1726 Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Opera of Paris
Music History
1891 Music Hall (now Carnegie Hall) opens in New York City, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as guest conductor of teh New York Music Society Orchestra
- 1900 "The Billboard" began weekly publication
Music Premiere
1927 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Symphony premieres in Berlin
#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
- 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
Music History
1992 American country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection
Music Awards
1999 34th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks, Faith Hill & Tim McGraw win
Album Release
2008 American/Columbia Records releases "Home Before Dark", the twenty-seventh studio album by Neil Diamond; tops charts in US, UK and NZ
- 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