Strauss' Second Horn Concerto
1943 Richard Strauss's Second Horn Concerto premieres at the Salzburg Festival with Gottfried von Freiberg as the soloist with the Vienna Philharmonic under Karl Böhm
Harmonie der Welt
1957 Paul Hindemith's opera "Harmonie der Welt" premieres in Munich, Germany
- 1964 US premiere of The Beatles' debut film "A Hard Day's Night" in New York City [1]
- 1965 "Help!" a musical comedy film featuring the Beatles is released in the US
- 1966 The Beatles arrive in Chicago, Illinois for their third (and final) US tour
- 1968 Beatles launch "Apple Records" label
- 1973 The birth of hip-hop: DJ Kool Herc uses two turntables, playing the same record simultaneously to create the “merry-go-round” technique, at a party in the Bronx [1]
Keith Moon Collapses
1976 "The Who" drummer Keith Moon collapses and is hospitalized in Miami, Florida
- 1978 Second studio album by Chic, "C'est Chic," is released, featuring the single "Le Freak" (Billboard Album of the Year 1979)
- 1979 British rock band Led Zeppelin performs for what becomes their final time in England at Knebworth Park, Hertfordshire, before over 200,000 fans
- 1985 "Tap Dance Kid" closes at the Broadhurst Theatre in NYC after 669 performances
- 1999 American rock group "KISS" receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- 2009 "Need You Now" album is released by Lady Antebellum (Billboard Album of the Year 2010)
- 2011 Rock group "The Go-Go's" receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of the former nightclub called "The Masque"
- 2025 Fictional girl group HUNTR/X from Netflix movie 'Kpop Demon Hunters' reaches number one on Billboard Hot 100, the first all-woman group to do so in 24 years (the last being Destiny's Child in 2001) [1]
