- 1931 Hal Kemp & his Orchestra record "Whistles", with Skinnay Ennis as vocalist, in NYC
- 1939 Billboard Magazine introduces the hillbilly (country) music chart
Ebony Concerto
1946 First performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto" by Woody Herman and His Thundering Herd at Carnegie Hall in New York City
- 1961 "13 Daughters" closes at 54th St Theater, NYC, after 28 performances
Music Concert
1961 Elvis Presley performs live at Pearl Harbor’s Bloch Arena in a benefit for the USS Arizona Memorial; his return to the concert stage after a stint in the US Army raises $60K and worldwide awareness of the project [1]
Family Affair
1962 "Family Affair" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 65 performances
- 1966 Beatles pose for photographer Robert Whitaker with mutilated dolls and butchered meat for album cover of "Yesterday & Today", it is later pulled from circulation and replaced with a different photo
- 1967 The Turtle's "Happy Together" goes #1
Music Concert
1969 American singer Judy Garland’s gives what becomes her very last concert, at Falkoner Centret in Copenhagen, Denmark
Music History
1969 Beatle John Lennon and new wife Yoko Ono stage their 1st bed-in for peace, at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 1972 17th Eurovision Song Contest: Vicky Leandros for Luxembourg wins singing "Apres toi" in Edinburgh
- 1972 Bob James and Jack O'Brien's musical "The Selling of the President," based on the 1969 book by Joe McGinniss, closes at the Shubert Theater, NYC, after 5 performances
- 1972 Soft rock trio America's debut album "America" goes #1
When Will I Be Loved
1975 Linda Ronstadt releases cover of the Everly Brothers' 1960 song "When Will I Be Loved" as a single; climbs to No. 2 in the charts
Music History
1976 Revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musical "My Fair Lady" opens at St James Theater, later transferring to the Lunt-Fontaine, NYC; runs for 377 performances
Music History
1983 Motown 25, a concert celebrating the anniversary of Motown records is taped for broadcast at the Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California; performers include: The Miracles; The Temptations; The Four Tops; Diana Ross and the Supremes; The Jackson 5; and Michael Jackson, who unveils his "moonwalk" dance move
- 1990 Peter Shaffer's stage comedy "Lettice and Lovage" opens at the Barrymore Theater, NYC; runs for 284 performances
1991 Country singer Reba McEntire performs as scheduled at the Academy Awards ceremony, just 9 days after nearly her entire band dies in a plane crash
- 1993 "Candida" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
- 1997 "Barrymore" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 240 performances
Life After Death
1997 "Life After Death" second studio album by The Notorious B.I.G. is released (Billboard Song of the Year 1997)
Rules of Travel
2003 Capitol/Nashville Records releases "Rules of Travel", the tenth studio album by singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash; produced by husband John Leventhal, it includes a duet with her father Johnny Cash
Music Concert
2016 The Rolling Stones perform a free outdoor concert at the Ciudad Deportiva de la Habana sports complex, in Havana, Cuba, before an estimated crowd of 500,000
- 2016 Zayn's [Zayn Malik] solo debut album "Mind of Mine" is released, 1st British male artist to debut at No. 1 in US
Diddy's Homes Searched
2024 Homes belonging to Sean "Diddy" Combs searched by federal authorities amid allegations of sex trafficking, sexual assault, against the rap singer and producer [1]
