Beatrice et Benedict
1862 Hector Berlioz's opera "Beatrice et Benedict" premieres in Baden-Baden, Germany
Shostakovich's 7th Symphony
1942 Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, dedicated to the city of Leningrad, is performed in Leningrad by starving musicians and broadcast to German forces over loudspeakers during the siege by Nazi forces
- 1966 The Beatles release their "Yellow Submarine" single and their album "Revolver" in the US
- 1969 Kander and Ebb's musical "Zorba" closes at the Imperial Theatre, NYC, after 305 performances
Wings Member Quits
1973 Northern Irish guitarist Henry McCullough quits rock band Wings, founded by Paul McCartney
- 1986 Michael Valent, Ralph Allen and David Campbell's musical "Honky Tonk Nights" closes at the Biltmore Theatre, NYC, after four performances
Just to See You Smile
1997 "Just to See You Smile" single released by Tim McGraw (Billboard Song of the Year 1998)
- 1999 The Diet of Japan enacts a law establishing the Hinomaru as the official national flag and "Kimi Ga Yo" as the national anthem
Music Premiere
2012 Philip Glass' Symphony No. 10 premieres with the Orchestre Français des Jeunes conducted by Dennis Russell Davies at the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence, France
- 2015 At the Ferguson anniversary of the shooting of unarmed Michael Brown, a man is shot, and a state of emergency is declared
- 2019 Roadrunner Records releases "We Are Not Your Kind", the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Slipknot; it tops the album charts in more than ten countries
