1st Unofficial Gold Record
1912 1st unofficial gold record (Al Jolson's "Ragging The Baby To Sleep")
- 1964 Albert Hague and Marty Brill's musical "Cafe Crown", starring Theodore Bikel, opens at Martin Beck Theater, NYC; runs for 3 performances
- 1969 The Band (formerly The Hawks), perform their 1st concert, at Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, California
I Love My Wife
1977 Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart's musical "I Love My Wife" opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC; runs for 857 performances
Music History
1982 Country music legend Johnny Cash hosts Saturday Night Live, participates in skits, performs medley of hits; Elton John is additional musical guest
- 1994 "Little More Magic" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 30 performances
- 1994 Anna Deveare Smith's one-woman play "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992" opens at the Cort Theatre, NYC; runs for 72 performances
Pulitzer Prize
2015 American jazz composer and saxophonist John Coltrane is awarded a posthumous Special Citation by the Pulitzer Prize board
Homecoming
2019 Beyoncé releases a live album of her 2018 Coachella performance on the same day as her Netflix documentary "Homecoming"