Water Music
1717 George Frideric Handel's "Water Music" premieres repeatedly on a barge cruising the River Thames in London
- 1955 Charlie LaVere and Tom Adair's musical "Golden Horseshoe Revue" opens at Disneyland in Anaheim, California; runs for over 50,000 performances,
High Society
1956 MGM releases film "High Society", a musical re-working of "The Philadelphia Story" set in Newport, Rhode Island; starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra, with songs by Cole Porter
Five Finger Exercise
1958 Peter Shaffer's musical "Five Finger Exercise" premieres in London
It's a Bird... It's A Plane...It's Superman
1966 Charles Strouse and Lee Adams' musical "It's a Bird... It's A Plane...It's Superman" closes at Alvin Theatre, NYC. after 129 performances
Music History
1974 John Lennon is (again) ordered to leave US in 60 days, due to a 1968 marijuana charge in the UK (he doesn't)
- 1974 The Moody Blues open 1st quadrophonic recording studio in UK
- 1981 "This is Burlesque" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 28 performances
This One
1989 Paul McCartney releases single "This One", from his album "Flowers In The Dirt"
Born to Do It
2001 Craig David releases “Born to Do It” in the United States