Symphony No. 4
1878 Peter Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F premieres at a Russian Musical Society concert in Moscow [February 10 O.S.]
- 1941 Paul Creston's 1st Symphony premieres
- 1941 Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man" premieres
Tagus River Plane Crash
1943 Plane crash in the Tagus River, Lisbon, Portugal kills 23 with 15 survivors including singer Jane Froman
- 1950 Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock's revised and expanded edition of reference book "Men of Music: Their Lives, Times and Achievements" is published
Portofino
1958 Louis Bellson, Will Irwin, Richard Ney, and Sheldon Harnick's musical "Portofino" closes at the Adelphi Theatre, NYC, after 3 performances
- 1963 The Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
- 1964 The Beatles arrive back in England after their successful first US visit
- 1965 Rodgers & Hammerstein's television musical "Cinderella", starring Lesley Ann Warren and Stuart Damon, with Pat Carroll and Celeste Holm, premieres on CBS-TV
Silent Sun
1968 Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun"
- 1969 The Beatles begin recording what becomes their "Abbey Road" album at EMI Recording Studio at 3 Abbey Road in Westminster, London, England; the studio was later renamed in honor of their achievements there
- 1970 "Charles Aznavour" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 23 performances
- 1989 Pepsi-Cola airs its first Spanish commercial on network TV during the Grammy Awards broadcast on CBS
- 1992 "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" closes at Music Box NYC
Streisand on SNL
1992 Barbra Streisand surprises cast members in a cameo appearance at the end of a "Coffee Talk" sketch on "Saturday Night Live"
- 1998 "King & I" closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances
Songwriters Hall of Fame
2017 Jay-Z becomes the first rapper inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame alongside Max Martin, Jimmy Jam, and Terry Lewis
- 2019 Musician Peter Frampton announces he has a degenerative muscular disease and his next tour will be his last
