- 1796 James S. McLean granted a US patent for his improvements to the piano
Mahler's 6th Symphony
1906 Premiere of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6 takes place in Essen, Germany
- 1950 John Mundy and Edward Eager's musical "Liar", starring Martin Balsam and Walter Matthau, closes at the Broadhurst Theater, NYC, after 12 performances
Arms and the Girl
1950 Morton Gould and Dorothy Field's colonial-era musical "Arms and the Girl", starring Nanette Fabray and Pearl Bailey, closes at 46th St Theater, NYC, after 134 performances
- 1957 Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
1963 Columbia Records releases "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan", the second studio album by folk singer Bob Dylan; it contains his songs "Blowin' in the Wind", "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", and serves as his critical and commercial breakthrough
- 1967 British folk-jazz fusion group Pentangle gives debut performance at the Royal Festival Hall, London, England
Sherry!
1967 James Lipton and Laurence Rosenthal's musical "Sherry!", based on George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's play "The Man Who Came to Dinner" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 72 performances
Imagine
1971 John Lennon records the song "Imagine" at his Ascot Sound home studio at Tittenhurst Park, England
- 1972 Jimmy Castor Bunch's "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" hits #6
- 1976 Musical whodunit "Something's Afoot" opens at Lyceum Theater, NYC; runs for 61 performances
God Save the Queen
1977 The Sex Pistols release "God Save the Queen," sparking major controversy and leading to a ban on the song by the BBC
- 1982 Musical "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?", after successful runs in Chicago and Philadelphia, opens at Alvin Theatre, NYC; runs for 5 performances
BTS Tops the Billboard 200
2018 South Korean boy band BTS are the first K-pop group to top the US Billboard 200 with their album "Love Yourself: Tear"
- 2022 Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels' opera "Omar" premieres at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina (2023 Pulitzer Prize for Music winner)
Ringo Starr's 15th All-Starr Band
2022 Ringo Starr's fifteenth All-Starr Band debuts in concert; members include: Steve Lukather, Edgar Winter, Colin Hay, Hamish Stuart, Gregg Bissonette, and Warren Ham
