Night on Bald Mountain
1886 Modest Mussorgsky's musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain" premieres at Kononov Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia
Mata Hari Executed
1917 Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is executed by a firing squad for allegedly spying for Germany during World War I in Vincennes near Paris
- 1923 American pianist Henry Cowell sparks a riot among audience members due to his avant-garde piano techniques at Gewandhaus concert hall in Leipzig, Germany; some try to physically stop his performance, while others defend him
- 1925 Willem Landré's opera "Beatrice" premieres in The Hague
Shostakovich's 1st Piano Concert
1933 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Piano Concerto premieres in Leningrad, with Shostakovich at the piano
Buddy Holly Lands a Contract
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"
- 1955 Country music radio show "Grand Ole Opry" is first broadcast on television in a live hour-long show by ABC
- 1960 "Laughs & Other Events" closes at the Barrymore Theatre, NYC, after 8 performances
- 1973 7th Country Music Association Awards: Roy Clark wins
Jolene
1973 American country singer-songwriter Dolly Parton releases her single "Jolene," the title track of her forthcoming album, and tops the country charts in US and Canada
The Heart of Saturday Night
1974 Asylum Records releases "The Heart of Saturday Night," the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits
A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll
1976 Ringo Starr releases the single "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll," which peaks at 26 in the US but fails to chart in the UK
- 1977 "Serpentine Fire" single released by Earth, Wind & Fire (Billboard Song of the Year 1978)
- 1977 Debby Boone's single "You Light Up My Life" goes #1 and stays #1 for ten weeks
- 1987 Allan Knee and Brian Gari's musical "Late Nite Comic" opens at the Ritz Theater in New York City and runs for 4 performances
- 1994 Philip Glass's Symphony No. 2 for string orchestra premieres with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City
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