- 1922 1st "old time" musicians radio broadcast (Jenkins-WSB Atlanta)
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan
1965 Beatles tape an appearance for "The Ed Sullivan Show"
#1 in the Charts
1965 Sonny & Cher's single "I Got You Babe" hits #1
- 1966 Cleveland Stadium's 1st rock concert: The Beatles headline; fans break through barriers and rush stage causing a 30-minute delay while order is restored
Music History
1975 Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich is buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow
- 1983 Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone suffers a fractured skull from a kick to the head in a fight about a woman in Queens, NYC, and undergoes brain surgery
Music History
1985 Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (including publishing rights to most of the Beatles song catalog) for $47.5M; 10 years later he sells 1/2 of his interest to Sony for $150M
- 1997 Revival of Sherman Edwards' historical musical "1776", featuring Brent Spiner, opens at Criterion Theater, NYC; runs for 333 performances
- 2019 American rapper ASAP Rocky found guilty of assault in Stockholm and given a suspended sentence