- 1849 Astor Place Riot: Backers of American actor and working class hero Edwin Forrest attempt to disrupt British actor William McReady's performance at Astor Place Opera House in NYC; Military troops supporting police shoot at the crowd, killing between 22 and 31 [1]
- 1907 Paul Dukas' opera "Ariane et Barbe Bleue" premieres in Paris
- 1932 Government declares "Wilhelmus" as the Netherlands' national anthem
Music Premiere
1957 Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Piano concerto premieres, played by his son Maxim at his graduation concert at Moscow's conservatory
Music History
1961 Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Jonathan Miller comedy revue "Beyond the Fringe" opens at the Fortune Theatre in London's West End
Music History
1963 Decca Records sign The Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison [1]
Music History
1967 Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, and singer Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges, based on evidence gathered in a February police raid of Richards' mansion in West Wittering, England
Radio History
1982 WABC radio (NYC) plays its last record - John Lennon's "Imagine" - and switches to all-talk format
- 1992 "Hamlet" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 45 performances
Music Concert
1994 Barbra Streisand's begins 1st concert tour in 30 years, at the Capitol Centre in Landover, Maryland (after "warm-up" shows in Las Vegas and London)
- 1994 DGC Records releases "Weezer" (known as The Blue Album), the debut album of rock band Weezer
- 1994 Musical sequel "The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, NYC; runs for 16 performances
Academy of Country Music Awards
1995 30th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alan Jackson and Reba McEntire win
Pro Wrestling
2010 Flavor Flav guest hosts the wrestling show WWE Raw
lovestrong
2011 Christina Perri releases her debut studio album, "lovestrong"
- 2012 Peeter Vähi's "Antarctic Concerto" world première, with guitar soloist Rémi Boucher and the Glasperlenspiel Sinfonietta led by Andres Mustonen, at Nordea Concert Hall in Tallinn, Estonia
Canonization
2012 Pope Benedict XVI signs decree of canonization of Benedictine nun and composer Hildegard von Bingen, completing sainthood process started in 1228
A
2013 Agnetha Faltskog releases a new album called "A"
- 2014 59th Eurovision Song Contest: Conchita Wurst for Austria wins singing "Rise Like a Phoenix" in Copenhagen
