Stars & Stripes Forever
1896 Patriotic march "The Stars and Stripes Forever" is composed by John Philip Sousa
- 1905 Victor Herbert and Henry Blossom's operetta "Mlle Modiste" opens at the Knickerbocker Theatre, NYC; runs for 202 performances
Stop! Look! Listen!
1915 Irving Berlin and Harry B Smith's musical revue "Stop! Look! Listen!" opens at the Globe Theater, NYC; runs for 105 performances
- 1917 Louis Hirsch and Otto Harbach's musical "Going Up" opens at the Liberty Theater, NYC; runs for 351 performances
- 1931 New York's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire live opera performance for the first time - Englebert Humperdinck's "Hänsel und Gretel" over NBC radio
Symphony of the Air
1937 Arturo Toscanini conducts the first "Symphony of the Air" concert program over NBC radio
Pal Joey
1940 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Pal Joey", starring Gene Kelly and Vivienne Segal, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (later transferring to Shubert, and then the St. James), NYC; runs for 374 performances
Sacred and Popular Music
1955 Pope Pius XII encyclical "Musice Sacrae" on the history, use, and promotion of sacred music is published
Ringo's First Drum Set
1957 17-year old Liverpudlian Richard Starkey (later known as Ringo Starr) receives his first drum set as a Christmas gift from his stepfather
Engagement of McCartney and Asher
1967 Beatle Paul McCartney and British actress Jane Asher get engaged; engagement publicly broken six months later
1989 Leonard Bernstein conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in East Berlin's Schauspielhaus to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall, broadcast worldwide to an audience of 100 million
- 1994 Stand-up comedy revue "Comedy Tonight", featuring Mort Sahl, Dorothy Loudon, Michael Davis, and Joy Behar, closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater, NYC, after 9 performances
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