Oberto
1839 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio" premieres at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan
Slavonic March
1876 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March makes its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception
The Sorcerer
1877 W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera "The Sorcerer" premieres at the Opera Comique, London
- 1888 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky' conducts the premiere of his 5th Symphony at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia
Sweet & Low
1930 Musical "Sweet & Low" with Fanny Brice premieres in NYC
Very Warm for May
1939 Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's musical "Very Warm for May", featuring June Allyson, Eve Arden, and Vera-Ellen, and directed by Vincente Minnelli opens at the Alvin Theatre, NYC; runs for 59 performances, inspiring 9-year-old audience member Stephen Sondheim's love for musical theater
- 1941 Virgil Thomson's 2nd Symphony, premieres
- 1945 "Girl from Nantucket" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 12 performances
- 1945 Jacques Belasco and Kay Twomey's musical "The Girl from Nantucket" closes at Adelphi Theater, NYC, after 12 performances
- 1962 "Nowhere to Go, But Up" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 9 performances
Little Me
1962 Neil Simon, Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's musical "Little Me" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater, NYC; runs for 257 performances
- 1967 Beatles Ltd & Apple Music Ltd swap names
Monkee Opens Boutique
1967 Davy Jones of the Monkees opens a boutique, Zilch I, in Greenwich Village, New York
Music History
1968 Beatle George Harrison makes cameo appearance on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"
Zorba
1968 John Kander and Fred Ebbs' musical "Zorba" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 305 performances
Elton John's Live Studio Concert
1970 Elton John performs a live studio concert broadcast for WABC in New York City, later released as his 11-17-70 album
- 1977 Bernard Pomerance's "Elephant Man" premieres in London
Double Fantasy
1980 Geffen Records releases John Lennon and Yoko Ono's album "Double Fantasy"
9 to 5 and Odd Jobs
1980 RCA-Victor Records releases "9 to 5 and Odd Jobs", the 23rd studio album by country singer-songwriter Dolly Parton
Yentl
1983 Film "Yentl" produced, directed by Barbra Streisand, starring Streisand and Mandy Patinkin premieres, based on play and story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Diamond's 9th Symphony
1985 David Diamond's 9th Symphony, dedicated to Dmitri Mitropoulos, premieres with the American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein
Music Premiere
1986 Musical revue "Oh, Coward!" featuring the songs of Noël Coward, opens at the Helen Hayes Theater, NYC; runs for 56 performances
- 1990 American singer David Crosby breaks his left leg, ankle and shoulder in a motorcycle accident in Los Angeles, California
- 1991 Revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musical "Brigadoon" closes at New York State Theater, NYC, after 12 performances
- 1992 "The Bodyguard" movie soundtrack is released by Arista Records (Billboard Album of the Year 1993)
- 1992 Tomas Rodriquez-Pantoja's flamenco musical revue "Gypsy Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater, NYC; runs for 55 performances
- 1993 "Grand Night For Singing" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 52 performances
Sunset Boulevard
1994 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton's musical "Sunset Boulevard" opens at Minskoff Theater, NYC; runs for 977 performances, wins 7 Tony Awards
- 1996 "Present Laughter" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
#1's
1998 Mariah Carey releases album "#1's"
My Love is Your Love
1998 Whitney Houston releases her fourth studio album "My Love is Your Love"
Britney Spears
2003 Britney Spears, at 21 years old, becomes the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Rent
2005 Film adaptation of Joanthan Larson's musical "Rent", starring Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs, premieres at Ziegfeld Theater, NYC
- 2005 Italy's choice of national anthem, "Il Canto degli Italiani", becomes official in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
