Orpheus Premieres
1854 Franz Liszt's symphony "Orpheus" premieres
Werther Premieres
1892 Opera "Werther" by Jules Massenet premieres in Vienna
Music History
1927 Noël Coward's stage comedy "The Marquise", starring Marie Tempest, opens at the Criterion Theatre, London; runs for 129 performances
- 1946 Frank Black's musical "The Duchess Misbehaves" closes at Adelphi Theater, NYC, after 5 performances
Symphony No. 3
1947 Morton Gould's 3rd Symphony, premieres
- 1949 Revival of Sidney Howard's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1924 stage drama "They Knew What They Wanted", opens at the Music Box Theatre, NYC; runs for 61 performances
Music Premiere
1962 Darius Milhaud's 12th Symphony premieres
- 1963 Beatles top British rock charts with "Please, Please Me"
Foxy
1964 Robert Emmett Dolan and Johnny Mercer's musical "Foxy", starring Bert Lahr, opens at Ziegfeld Theater, NYC; runs for 72 performances, with Lahr winning a Tony Award
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan
1964 The Beatles' 2nd appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show", live from Deauville Hotel in Miami, Florida; broadcast draws about 70 million television viewers
- 1965 "Baker Street" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 313 performances
Music History
1968 Beatles George Harrison, John Lennon and their wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Music History
1968 Elvis Presley receives a gold record for "How Great Thou Art"
Music History
1972 American guitar legend Chuck Berry and former Beatle John Lennon perform together, with Yoko Ono, on 'The Mike Douglas Show' TV program
- 1979 George Harrison releases single "Blow Away"
- 1986 "Uptown... It's Hot!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 24 performances
- 2020 David Byrne's musical revue "American Utopia" closes at Hudson Theatre, NYC, after 106 performances