Beatrice et Benedict
1862 Hector Berlioz's opera "Beatrice et Benedict" premieres in Baden-Baden, Germany
Historic Siege
1942 Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, dedicated to city of Leningrad, performed in Leningrad by starving musicians and broadcast to German forces over loudspeakers during siege by Nazi forces
Music History
1973 Northern Irish guitarist Henry McCullough quits rock band Wings, founded by Paul McCartney
- 1986 "Honky Tonk Nights" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 4 performances
A Streetcar Named Desire
1992 Revival of Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire", starring Alec Baldwin & Jessica Lange, closes at Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC, after 137 performances
Just to See You Smile
1997 "Just to See You Smile" single released by Tim McGraw (Billboard Song of the Year 1998)
- 1999 The Diet of Japan enacts a law establishing the Hinomaru as the official national flag, and "Kimi Ga Yo" as national anthem.
- 2012 Philip Glass' Symphony No. 10 premieres with the Orchestre Français des Jeunes conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, at the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence, France
- 2015 At Ferguson anniversary of the shooting of unarmed Michael Brown, a man is shot and a state of emergency declared