- 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
- 1927 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 1st Symphony premieres in Berlin
- 1951 "Out of This World" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 157 performances
- 1955 "Damn Yankees" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1022 performances
- 1962 West Side Story soundtrack album goes #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
- 1971 "Earl of Ruston" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 5 performances
- 1984 29th Eurovision Song Contest: Herreys for Sweden wins singing "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" in Luxembourg
- 1990 35th Eurovision Song Contest: Toto Cutugno for Italy wins singing "Insieme: 1992" in Zagreb
Event of Interest
1992 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
- 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 aka Donald Glover releases the music video to new single "This is America" to wide acclaim
Donald Glover