The Barber of Seville
1825 Gioachino Rossini's comic opera "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (The Barber of Seville) is the first opera performed in Italian in the US, staged at New York City's Park Theater
- 1921 Zoel Parenteau and André Picard's musical "Kiki" opens at the Belasco Theatre in New York City and runs for 233 performances
Gay Divorcee
1932 Cole Porter's musical "Gay Divorcee" opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City and later transfers to the Shubert Theatre; it runs for 248 performances
- 1948 The first opera to be televised, Giuseppe Verdi's "Otello," is broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City
Bells Are Ringing
1956 Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green's musical "Bells Are Ringing", starring Judy Holiday, opens at Shubert Theater, NYC; runs for 924 performances, wins 2 Tony Awards
- 1959 2nd Grammy Awards: Bobby Darin for "Mack The Knife" wins Record of the Year, Frank Sinatra for "Come Dance with Me!" wins Album of the Year, Jimmy Driftwood for "The Battle of New Orleans" wins Song of the Year
- 1963 "I Want to Hold Your Hand" single is released by The Beatles in the United Kingdom
- 1965 Robert Wright and George Forrest's musical "Anya" opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City and runs for 16 performances
- 1969 The Beatles' single "Something" / "Come Together" reaches #1
Yale-Princeton Football Game
1970 Modernist composer Charles Ives' orchestral two-minute piece "Two Halves in Two Minutes," also known as the "Yale-Princeton Football Game," written in 1897, premieres at Carnegie Hall in New York
- 1987 Revival of Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen's musical "Dreamgirls" closes at the Ambassador Theatre in New York City after 177 performances
Shogun - The Musical
1990 Paul Chihara and John Driver's musical "Shogun - The Musical", based on James Clavell's novel, opens at Marquis Theater, NYC; runs for 72 performances
My Life
1994 Mary J. Blige releases "My Life," her second studio album (Billboard Music Award Top R&B Album 1995)
- 1995 "Garden District" closes at Circle in the Square Theater, NYC
Mandela's AIDS Concerts
2003 The first of Nelson Mandela's 46664 AIDS benefit concerts held at Green Point Stadium, Capetown
Rolling in the Deep
2010 "Rolling in the Deep" single is released by Adele (Billboard Song of the Year 2011, Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year 2012)
- 2018 Opera "Prism" composed by Ellen Reid with lyrics by Roxie Perkin premieres at REDCAT in Los Angeles (2019 Pulitzer Prize for Music)
- 2019 K-pop stars Jung Joon-young and Choi Jong-hoon are sentenced to prison for gang-raping unconscious fans and distributing footage of it [1]
Spotify's Most-Streamed
2023 Taylor Swift is Spotify's most-streamed global artist of the year with 26.1 billion streams, and "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus is the most-streamed song [1]
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