Alexander's Feast
1736 George Frideric Handel's opera "Alexander's Feast" premieres at the Covent Garden Theatre, London
Elektra
1910 English premiere of Richard Strauss' opera "Elektra"
- 1914 Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini" premieres in Turin
Music Premiere
1923 Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony premieres
Music History
1942 Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra record "I'll Take Tallulah"
- 1949 "Inside USA" closes at Century Theater, NYC, after 339 performances
Music History
1958 Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records
- 1964 UK flies ½ ton of Beatles wigs to the US
Another Day
1971 Paul McCartney releases single "Another Day" in UK
Music History
1972 American singer Harry Nilsson's single "Without You" begins a 4 week run at the top of the charts. [The song was originally written and performed by the English band Badfinger in 1970, and would reach the top ten again with Mariah Carey's 1994 cover.]
- 1973 "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" single released by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (Billboard Song of the Year 1973)
- 1977 19th Grammy Awards: "This Masquerade"and Starland Vocal Band win
#1 in the Charts
1977 Manfred Mann's Earth Band's cover of Bruce Springsteen's song "Blinded By The Light" goes to #1
On The Twentieth Century
1978 Cy Coleman, Betty Comden & Adolph Green's musical "On The Twentieth Century", starring John Cullum and Madeline Kahn, and Kevin Kline, and directed by Hal Prince, opens at the St. James Theatre, NYC; runs for 449 performances, wins 5 Tony and 4 Drama Desk Awards
Music History
1981 George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" of his song "My Sweet Lord" from Ronnie Mack's song "He's So Fine"
- 1984 "Doonesbury" closes at Biltmore Theater, NYC, after 104 performances
- 1987 Musical revue "Stardust - The Mitchell Parish Musical", featuring songs of the Lithuanian-American lyricist, opens at Biltmore Theater, NYC; runs for 101 performances
- 1989 Peter Allen's musical "Legs Diamond" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater, NYC, after 64 performances
Night Ride Home
1991 Geffen Records releases "Night Ride Home", Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's 14th studio album
BRIT Awards
2014 BRIT Awards: David Bowie, Ellie Goulding, and Arctic Monkeys win
