- 1770 Date of action in Victor Herbert and Grant Stewart's opera "Madeleine"
Brahms' Violin Concerto
1879 Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77, premieres in Leipzig
The American
1894 First public performance of Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's String Quartet No. 12 "The American" by the Kneisel Quartet in Boston, Massachusetts
Shostakovich's 5th String Quartet
1952 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 5th string quartet - premieres Leningrad 1953
Suite Hebraique
1953 Ernest Blochs's work for viola and piano "Suite Hebraique", part of his "Jewish Cycle", premieres in Chicago
Prince of the Pagodas
1957 Benjamin Britten's only full-length ballet "Prince of the Pagodas" premieres at Covent Garden, London
Johnny Cash's Prison Show
1959 Johnny Cash performs the first of many free concerts behind bars at San Quentin State Prison in California
Top of the Pops
1964 "Top of the Pops," a British pop music television program, premieres with performances by Dusty Springfield, The Rolling Stones, Dave Clark Five, The Hollies, Swinging Blue Jeans, and The Beatles
- 1966 Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1 on the Billboard Hot 100
- 1972 "Company" closes at the Alvin Theatre in New York City after 690 performances
- 1972 "On the Town" closes at the Imperial Theatre in New York City after 65 performances
Promises, Promises
1972 Burt Bacharach and Hal David's musical "Promises, Promises," based on the 1960 Billy Wilder film "The Apartment," closes at the Shubert Theatre in New York City after 1,281 performances, earning one Grammy and two Tony Awards
- 1976 "A Musical Jubilee" closes at the St. James Theatre in New York City after 92 performances
Your Arm's Too Short To Box With God
1978 Alex Bradford, Vinnette Carroll, and Micki Grant's musical "Your Arms Too Short to Box with God" closes at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York City after 429 performances and winning one Tony Award
Streisand and Peters Part
1982 American singer Barbra Streisand and hairdresser/film producer Jon Peters' romantic relationship ends
- 1983 'New Age' music radio program "Hearts of Space," hosted by Stephen Hill, makes its national syndication debut on U.S. National Public Radio
- 1994 "A Grand Night for Singing" closes at the Criterion Center in New York City after 52 performances
- 1994 "The Flying Karamazov Brothers Do the Impossible" closes at the Helen Hayes Theatre in New York City after 50 performances
- 1995 "A Tuna Christmas" closes at the Booth Theatre in New York City after 20 performances
- 1995 "Glass Menagerie" closes at the Criterion Theater in New York City after 57 performances
- 1995 "Shadow Box" closes at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City after 49 performances
- 2012 Philip Glass' Symphony No. 9 premieres with the Bruckner Orchester Linz conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, at Brucknerhaus in Linz, Austria
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