- 1849 Astor Place Riot: Backers of American actor and working class hero Edwin Forrest attempt to disrupt British actor William McReady's performance at Astor Place Opera House in NYC; Military troops supporting police shoot at the crowd, killing between 22 and 31 [1]
- 1907 Paul Dukas' opera "Ariane et Barbe Bleue" premieres in Paris
- 1932 Government of Netherland declares "Wilhelmus" as the national anthem
- 1947 Revival of Oscar Straus' operetta "The Chocolate Soldier", with revised libretto by Guy Bolton, closes at the Century Theater, NYC, after 69 performances
- 1952 Revival of Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's musical "Shuffle Along" closes at Broadway Theater, NYC, after 4 performances
Music Premiere
1957 Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Piano concerto premieres, played by his son Maxim at his graduation concert at Moscow's conservatory
Music History
1961 Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Jonathan Miller comedy revue "Beyond the Fringe" opens at the Fortune Theatre in London's West End
Music History
1967 Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, and singer Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges, based on evidence gathered in a February police raid of Richards' mansion in West Wittering, England
- 1969 Pop band 'The Turtles" oerform at the White House; singer Mark Volman falls off of the stage 5 times
- 1978 Gary Geld and Peter Udell's musical "Angel", based on Thomas Wolfe's 1929 novel "Look Homeward, Angel", starring Frances Sternhagen and Fred Gwynne, opens at the Minskoff Theater, NYC; runs for 5 performances
Happy New Year
1980 Burt Shevelove's "Happy New Year", a musical adaptation of Phillip Barry's comic play "Holiday" using songs of Cole Porter, closes at the Morosco Theater, NYC, after 17 performances
Radio History
1982 WABC radio (NYC) plays its last record - John Lennon's "Imagine" - and switches to all-talk format
- 1986 "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco hits #1 on UK pop chart
- 1990 Mikhail Bulgakov's 1925 stage drama "Zoya's Apartment" opens at the Circle in Square Theater, NYC; runs for 45 performances
Sports History
1991 Oakland A's Jose Canseco is seen leaving singer Madonna's apartment
- 1992 Revival of William Shakespeare's stage drama "Hamlet" closes at the Criterion Theater, NYC, after 45 performances
Music Concert
1994 Barbra Streisand's begins 1st concert tour in 30 years, at the Capitol Centre in Landover, Maryland (after "warm-up" shows in Las Vegas and London)
- 1994 DGC Records releases "Weezer" (known as The Blue Album), the debut album of rock band Weezer
- 1994 Musical sequel "The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, NYC; runs for 16 performances
Pro Wrestling
2010 Rapper Flavor Flav guest hosts the wrestling show WWE Raw
- 2012 Peeter Vähi's "Antarctic Concerto" world première, with guitar soloist Rémi Boucher and the Glasperlenspiel Sinfonietta led by Andres Mustonen, at Nordea Concert Hall in Tallinn, Estonia
A
2013 Swedish pop singer Agnetha Faltskog releases a new album called "A"
- 2014 59th Eurovision Song Contest: Conchita Wurst for Austria wins singing "Rise Like a Phoenix" in Copenhagen
Music History
2018 R. Kelly's songs removed from Spotify playlists after sexual abuse allegations
Music History
2019 Rihanna announces her new upmarket fashion label Fenty with world's largest luxury group LVMH, their first black female designer
Renaissance World Tour
2023 Beyoncé begins her Renaissance World tour in Stockholm, Sweden, her first solo tour in seven years [1]
