- 1919 Fritz Kreisler, Victor Jacobi, and William LeBaron's operetta "Apple Blossoms" opens at the Globe Theatre, NYC; runs for 256 performances
Eve of St Mark
1942 Maxwell Anderson's stage drama "The Eve of St Mark" opens at the Cort Theatre, NYC; runs for 307 performances
- 1943 Weill, Perelman and Nash' musical "One Touch of Venus" premieres in NYC
String Quartet No. 2
1946 Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet premieres
- 1959 "Happy Town" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 5 performances
Pillow Talk
1959 "Pillow Talk" film directed by Michael Gordon and starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson is first released
Bye Bye Birdie
1961 Charles Strouse and Lee Adams' musical "Bye Bye Birdie", starring Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera, and Dick Gautier, closes at Martin Beck Theater, NYC, after 607 performances and 4 Tony Awards
Music History
1963 The Rolling Stones record the Lennon-McCartney song "I Wanna Be Your Man" at Kingsway Sound Studio in London
Music History
1975 US decides John Lennon won't be deported due to UK pot conviction
- 1979 "1940s Radio Hour" opens at St James Theater NYC for 105 performances
- 1979 Musical review "Eubie!", based on the songs of composer Eubie Blake, closes at Ambassador Theater, NYC, after 439 performances
- 1982 Musical "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater on Broadway, NYC; runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000, wins 7 Tony and 1 Grammy Award
- 2008 Music, podcast, and video streaming service Spotify is launched by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon
