- 1752 Premiere of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's opera "Le Devin du Village" (The Village Soothsayer) before the royal court at Fontainebleau, France
Too Many Girls
1939 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Too Many Girls" opens at the Imperial Theatre and later transfers to the Broadway Theatre in New York City and runs for 249 performances
Robeson Wins Spingarn Medal
1945 Paul Robeson wins the Spingarn Medal for his singing and acting achievements
Great American Symphony
1946 First performance of Aaron Copland's Third Symphony by the Boston Symphony Orchestra led by Serge Koussevitzky, often called the "Great American Symphony"
- 1952 Arthur Jones, Fred Stamer, and Gen Genovese's musical "Buttrio Square" closes at New Century Theater, New York City, after seven performances
The Frank Sinatra Show
1957 "The Frank Sinatra Show," a television variety and drama anthology series, debuts on ABC with the singer-actor given almost complete control of the program
Let's Dance
1962 Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers (also known as The Beatles) record "Let's Dance" in Hamburg, Germany
The Apple Tree
1966 Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's musical "The Apple Tree," starring Alan Alda and Barbara Harris, opens at the Shubert Theatre in New York City and runs for 463 performances
The Jungle Book
1967 Walt Disney's animated musical adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book," featuring the voices of Phil Harris, Louis Prima, Sterling Holloway, and Sebastian Cabot, is released
John and Yoko Fined
1968 Police find 219 grams of cannabis resin in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's apartment, and they are fined £150 for marijuana possession
Stewart Joins Small Faces
1969 British singer Rod Stewart joins rock band The Faces
- 1973 Judd Woldin and Robert Britten's musical "Raisin" opens at the 46th Street Theatre in New York City for 847 performances
Music History
1974 American R&B singer Al Green's girlfriend, Mary Woodson, dies by suicide at his Memphis home after assaulting him with a pot of boiling grits at age 29
Walking in the Park with Eloise
1974 The Country Hams release the instrumental single "Walking in the Park with Eloise," written by James McCartney and produced by his son Paul McCartney; the group consists of Wings with guests Chet Atkins and Floyd Cramer
- 1979 Stage musical "Beatlemania" opens in London
Once on This Island
1990 Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens' musical "Once on This Island," based on Rosa Guy's novel "My Love, My Love," a Caribbean-set retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid," opens at the Booth Theatre in New York City and runs for 469 performances
The Most Happy Fella
1991 Revival of Frank Loesser's 1956 musical "The Most Happy Fella" closes at the NY State Theater in New York City after a limited run by the New York City Opera
- 1992 "Oba Oba '93" closes at the Marquis Theater in New York City after 22 performances
- 2022 American cellist Yo-Yo Ma is awarded the fifth $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize
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