Violin Sonata No. 27
1781 Premiere of Mozart's "Violin Sonata No. 27" in G major (K. 379)
- 1876 Amilcare Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda" premieres in Milan
Bartók's 5th String Quartet
1935 Béla Bartók's 5th String Quartet premieres in Washington, D.C.
Piston's 1st Symphony
1938 Walter Piston's 1st Symphony in E, premieres in Boston, by the Boston Symphony, conducted by the composer
Music Premiere
1944 Dan Shapiro, Milton Pascal, and Phil Charig's musical "Follow the Girls', starring Gertrude Niesen and Jackie Gleason, opens at the New Century Theatre, in NYC, later transferring to the 44th Street Theatre, and then the Broadhurst; runs for 888 performances
- 1950 "Miss Liberty" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 308 performances
By the Beautiful Sea
1954 Andrew Schwartz and Dorothy Fields' musical "By the Beautiful Sea", starring Shirley Booth, opens at the Majestic Theatre, later transferring to the Imperial, NYC; runs for 270 performances
- 1961 "Show Girl" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 100 performances
- 1967 12th Eurovision Song Contest: Sandie Shaw for United Kingdom wins singing "Puppet on a String" in Vienna
- 1970 Mitch Leigh, William Alfred and Phyllis Robinson's musical melodrama "Cry for Us All" opens at Broadhurst Theater, NYC; runs for 9 performances
Carmelina
1979 Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner's musical "Carmelina", based on the 1968 film "Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell", opens at St James Theater, NYC; runs for 17 performances
- 1985 "Leader of the Pack" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 120 performances
- 1990 "Aspects of Love" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 377 performances
- 1991 "I Hate Hamlet" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 88 performances
- 1992 Clarke Peters' musical crafted from songs of Louis Jordan "Five Guys Named Moe" opens at the Eugene O'Neill Theater. NYC; runs for 445 performances
So Beautiful or So What
2011 Hear Music Records releases "So Beautiful or So What", the twelfth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
2016 31st Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Chicago, Cheap Trick, Deep Purple, Steve Miller, and N.W.A
- 2025 Jet Set nightclub roof collapse kills at least 221, during a performance by merengue singer Rubby Pérez and his orchestra, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic [1]
