Dalibor
1868 Bedřich Smetana's opera "Dalibor" premieres at the New Town Theatre in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia
- 1941 First US radio performance of Robert Russell Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"
Annie Get Your Gun
1946 Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, and Herbert Fields' musical "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Ethel Merman and featuring "There's No Business Like Show Business," opens at the Imperial Theatre, NYC
Billie Holiday Arrested
1947 Billie Holiday is arrested in her New York apartment for possession of narcotics
- 1952 "New Faces of 1952" opens at Royale Theater, NYC; runs for 365 performances
- 1963 "Beast in Me" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 4 performances
- 1965 "Roar of the Greasepaint" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 performances
- 1966 Capitol Records releases the Beach Boys 11th studio album "Pet Sounds"; the groundbreaking work includes hit singles "Sloop John B", "Wouldn't It Be Nice", and "God Only Knows"
Music History
1970 "Grover Henson Feels Forgotten" by Bill Cosby hits #70
Don't Play Us Cheap
1972 Melvin Van Peebles' musical "Don't Play Us Cheap" opens at Barrymore Theater, NYC; runs for 164 performances
- 1975 Capitol Records releases the Wings single "Listen to What the Man Said', featuring jazz saxophonist Tom Scott; it reaches #1 in US and Canada, and Top Ten in four other countries
Radio History
1975 John Lennon visits Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to participate in a radiothon benefitting MS research, and pops into a local TV station and gives the weather forecast
Music History
1980 Brian May of rock band Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis
#1 in the Charts
1981 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks
- 1982 "Barnum" closes at St James Theater NYC after 854 performances
- 1982 "Is There Life After High School?" closes at Barrymore after 12 performances
Music History
1983 NBC broadcasts "Motown 25", a concert celebrating the anniversary of Motown Record held in Pasadena, California in March; 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
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1987 Rupert Holmes' musical "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", based on an unfinished work of Charles Dickens, closes at the Imperial Theatre, NYC, after 608 performances and 5 Tony Award wins
- 1993 "3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 40 performances
- 1993 "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" closes at Circle in Square, NYC after 30 performances
- 1994 Norwegian black metal musician Varg Vikernes is sentenced to 21 years in prison for the murder of musician Euronymous and for the arson of three churches
- 2009 54th Eurovision Song Contest: Alexander Rybak for Norway wins singing "Fairytale" in Moscow
Music History
2018 American singer-songwriter Paul Simon begins his "Homeward Bound – The Farewell Tour" at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Music History
2018 Painting "Past Times" by Kerry James Marshall is bought by Sean Combs for $21.1 million, most paid for a living African American artist
Rocketman
2019 "Rocketman" film based on life of singer Elton John starring Taron Egerton premieres at the Cannes Film Festival
