- 1964 The Beatles make their first appearance on US Billboard Chart with single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" at #45
Your Own Thing
1968 Hal Hester and Danny Appolinar's rock musical "Your Own Thing", loosely based on Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", premieres at the Orpheum Theater, NYC; runs for 933 performances
- 1981 Punk singer Wendy O. Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity (later cleared)
- 1998 Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, and Terrence McNally's musical "Ragtime" opens at Ford Theater, NYC; runs for 834 performances
We Are One
2009 "We Are One" concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington prior to Barack Obama's inauguration attracts an estimated crowd of 400,000; performers include: Beyoncé, Jon Bon Jovi, Garth Brooks, Mariah Carey, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, John Legend, Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen, U2, and Stevie Wonder
Sons of the Sea
2013 Former Incubus singer Brandon Boyd announces his new band, Sons of the Sea
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