2014 Event U.S. President Barack Obama will allow the Pentagon to perform a limited number of air strikes in Iraq to thwart the advance of the Islamic State 2012 Death Joseph Murray, a Nobel prize winner, plastic surgeon and the first person to perform a kidney transplantation, dies at age 93 2012 Event Swedish doctors perform the world's first stem cell assisted vein transplant on a 10-year old girl 2012 Event Madonna begins her MDNA Tour in Tel Aviv, Israel, the first of more than 65 cities she will perform at worldwide 1998 Event "Funny Thing Happened," closes at St. James New York City after 715 perform 1996 Event "King and I," premieres at Neil Simon Theater in New York City for 781 perform 1994 Event 3 tenors-Placid Domingo, Luciano Parvoti, Jose Carreras, perform in Los Angeles 1982 Event Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel perform in Rotterdam 1982 Event 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Quebec 1981 Event Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel perform a reunion concert in Central Park 1981 Event New York City mayor Koch turns down a $7,500 offer to perform comedy 1979 Event Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in U.S.S.R. 1979 Event Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel 1978 Event Grateful Dead perform in Cairo, Egypt 1977 Event Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai and Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple twist lift, Helsinki 1972 Event John Lennon and Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden 1972 Event Barbra Striesand, James Taylor, Carole King and Quincy Jones perform at a benefit for George McGovern for President 1970 Event Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell 1969 Event The Band (formerly The Hawks), perform their 1st concert 1969 Event Beatles perform last live gig (42-minute concert on roof of Apple HQs) 1969 Event Beatles perform their last gig together, a free concert 1969 Event Soviet Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space 1967 Event Monkees perform at Forest Hills, New York, Jimi Hendrix is opening act 1966 Event Love, Moby Grape and Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East 1966 Event Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show 1966 Event Who and the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC 1963 Event Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold 1962 Event Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue and Blue Boys 1962 Event Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC) 1958 Event Dr. F. Mason Sones is 1st doctor to perform a coronary angiogram 1958 Event Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett Kelly will not perform in 1958 1957 Event John Lennon (16) and Paul McCartney (15) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group The Quarry Men perform at a church dinner 1955 Event Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at Met (New York City) 1954 Event IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour 1926 Event DeFord Bailey is 1st black to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry 1922 Birthday Christiaan Barnard, South Africa, surgeon, perform 1st heart transplant
