Radio Premiere
1933 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington
Music History
1936 Jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker marries his childhood sweetheart Rebecca Ruffin
Music History
1946 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team at 500 Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey
- 1964 Beatles' album "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1, stays #1 for 14 weeks
- 1964 Meredith Wilson's musical "Here's Love", based on thefil "Miracle on 34th Street". closes at Shubert Theater, NYC. after 338 performances
Music Concert
1966 Brian Jones' final performance as a Rolling Stone
You Can't Hurry Love
1966 The Supremes release single "You Can't Hurry Love"
Music History
1969 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival (across 3 days); performers included: Bo Diddley, Flying Burrito Brothers, Ten Years After, Guess Who, Santana, Tim Buckley, Byrds, Ike & Tina Turner Revue, Chicago Transit Authority, Chuck Berry, Led Zeppelin, and The Doors
#1 in the Charts
1970 Burt Bacharach and Hal David's song "(They Long to Be) Close to You" as sung by the Carpenters reaches #1
Music Concert
1973 George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album
- 1975 Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban's musical "A Chorus Line", opens at the Shubert Theatre, NYC; for record setting longest-running Broadway show run of 6,137 performances, and 10 Tony Award wins
Fame
1975 RCA releases David Bowie single "Fame", with cameo appearance by John Lennon
- 1976 Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's opera "Einstein on the Beach" premieres at Théâtre Municipal, in Avignon, France
Music History
1978 John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image
- 1997 Canadian rocker Rick Danko (The Band) gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling