Night on Bald Mountain
1886 Modest Mussorgsky's musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain" premieres at Kononov Hall, in St. Petersburg, Russia
La Mer
1905 Claude Debussy's symphonic sketch "La Mer" premieres in Paris
Shostakovich's 1st Piano Concert
1933 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Piano Concerto premieres in Leningrad, with Shostakovich at the piano
Contract of Interest
1955 Buddy Holley opens for Bill Haley & His Comets in Lubbock, Texas, and impresses Nashville scout Eddie Crandall, leading to a recording contract with a misspelling that creates "Buddy Holly"
- 1960 "Laughs & Other Events" closes at Barrymore Theater, NYC, after 8 performances
Country Music Association Awards
1969 3rd Country Music Association Awards: Johnny Cash and Tammy Wynette win
- 1973 7th Country Music Association Awards: Roy Clark wins
Jolene
1973 Country music artist Dolly Parton releases her single "Jolene"
A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll
1976 Ringo Starr releases single "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll"; peaks at 26 in US, fails to chart in UK
- 1977 "Serpentine Fire" single released by Earth, Wind & Fire (Billboard Song of the Year 1978)
- 1977 Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life" goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
- 1987 Allan Knee and Brian Gari's musical "Late Nite Comic" opens at Ritz Theater, NYC; runs for 4 performances
- 1988 Amnesty International's "Human Rights Now!" Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 1994 Philip Glass' Symphony No. 2, for string orchestra, premieres with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, NYC