Cosi Fan Tutte
1790 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" premieres at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria
Gretchaninov's 1st Symphony
1895 Alexander Gretchaninov's 1st Symphony premieres in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov conducting
Die Rosenkavalier
1911 Richard Strauss's opera "Der Rosenkavalier" (Knight of the Rose) premieres at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden, Germany
Stalin Dislikes Opera
1936 Joseph Stalin views Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Lady Macbeth" but he and his officials leave early and the play is denounced in state press
- 1957 Francis Poulenc's opera "Dialogue des Carmelites" premieres at La Scala, in Milan
Are You Lonesome Tonight
1961 "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by Elvis Presley hits #1
Catholic Bishop Bans "The Twist"
1962 Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker's "The Twist" to be impure and bans it from all Catholic schools
- 1962 David Diamond's 7th Symphony premieres with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy
- 1963 "Milk & Honey" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 543 performances
- 1969 "Red, White, & Maddox" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 41 performances
- 1979 Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht, Netherlands
Sinatra Sings to 175,000
1980 175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro
14th American Music Awards
1987 14th American Music Awards: Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie & Alabama win
Phantom of the Opera
1988 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart's musical "Phantom of the Opera", directed by Hal Prince and starring Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman, opens at Majestic Theater, NYC ; runs for 13,981 performances, winning 7 Tony Awards, and becoming Broadway's longest-running shows
- 1989 "Black & Blue" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 829 performances
- 1991 "A Few Good Men" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 497 performances
- 1992 "Little Hotel on the Side" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 41 performances
- 1997 "Ideal Husband" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 308 performances
25th American Music Awards
1998 25th American Music Awards: Spice Girls & Babyface win
Blame It
2009 "Blame It (On the Alcohol)" single released by Jamie Foxx featuring T-Pain (Billboard Song of the Year 2009)
- 2009 "I Run to You" single by Lady Antebellum is released (Grammy Award Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal 2009, Billboard Song of the Year 2009)
56th Grammy Awards
2014 56th Grammy Awards: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Lorde, and Daft Punk win
62nd Grammy Awards
2020 62nd Grammy Awards: Billie Eilish wins 5 Grammys, including album, record and song of the year
Spotify Removes Neil Young
2022 Spotify removes Neil Young's music from its streaming platform after the singer-songwriter's ultimatum in objection to COVID-19 misinformation in Joe Rogan's podcasts [1]
