- 1797 Luigi Cherubini's opéra-comique "Médée" premieres at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris, France
Mata Hari
1905 Mata Hari first performs her dance act at the Guimet Museum, Paris
- 1911 Ivan Caryll's musical "The Pink Lady" premieres at the New Amsterdam Theatre, NYC; runs for 336 performances
- 1922 George Bernard Shaw's largest-scale play "Back to Methusaleh (Part 3)" opens at the Garrick Theatre, NYC; runs for 25 performances
- 1928 Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers" premieres in NYC
- 1936 Romanian composer George Enescu's opera "Œdipe", inspired by the mythological tale of "Oedipus the King" premieres in Paris, with French libretto by Edmond Fleg
Music History
1965 British guitarist Eric Clapton quits the Yardbirds due to the band moving away from traditional blues; Jeff Beck becomes his replacement
- 1965 The Beatles' "Eight Days a Week" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
- 1968 Beatles release single "Lady Madonna" in the UK
- 1973 "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
- 1983 Peter Stone's musical "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater, NYC, after 770 performances
Pavarotti Last Opera
2004 Luciano Pavarotti performs in his final opera, "Tosca," at New York's Metropolitan Opera
Gershwin Prize
2019 Cuban-American singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan and songwriter-musician Emilio Estefan receive Library of Congress Gershwin Prize at the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
