Schumann Hears Paganini Play
1830 Robert Schumann hears Italian violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini play in Frankfurt
- 1888 The Concertgebouw concert hall in Amsterdam is inaugurated
- 1956 Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater in racial incident
- 1959 Yip Harburg, Fred Saidy, and Harold Arlen's musical "Jamaica", starring Lena Horne, closes at Imperial Theater, NYC, after 558 performances
Dylan at Folk City
1961 Bob Dylan makes his 1st appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village, New York City
Anyone Can Whistle
1964 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Anyone Can Whistle" closes at Majestic Theater, NYC, after 9 performances
Strangers in the Night
1966 Frank Sinatra records "Strangers in the Night" single for his album of the same name, later reaches #1 on the Billboard charts
- 1967 "Illya Darling" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 320 performances
- 1970 Beatles' "Let It Be" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
Luckenbach, Texas
1977 "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" single released by Waylon Jennings (Billboard Song of the Year, 1977)
- 1988 Royal Concert building in Amsterdam reopens
Miss Saigon
1991 Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's musical "Miss Saigon," based on Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly," and starring Jonathan Pryce and Lea Salonga opens at Broadway Theatre, NYC; runs for 4,092 performances, winning three Tony Awards
- 1996 Revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "The King & I", starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Donna Murphy, premieres at Neil Simon Theater, NYC; runs for 781 performances
2005 4th CMT Video Music Awards: Keith Urban, Gretchen Wilson & Kenny Chesney win
Farm Aid Concert
2020 Farm Aid "At Home" held virtually; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Black Pumas, Bonnie Raitt, Boz Scaggs, Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Edie Brickell, Jack Johnson, and Jon Batiste [1]
