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2012 Event - The Rolling Stones, English rock band, celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its first performance at the Marquee Club in Oxford Street, London

1998 Event - "Grease," closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 1,503 performance

1997 Event - "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," opens at Royale New York City for 109 performance

1996 Event - "Apple Doesn't Fall" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 1 performance

1996 Event - "Apple Doesn't Fall" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 1 performance

1996 Event - 6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line"

1994 Death - Leigh Bowery, designer, pop star, model, performance artist, influenced Boy George, Vivienne Westwood, dies at 33

1994 Event - "Cats" 5,000th Broadway performance (joins Chorus Line and Oh! Calcutta!)

1993 Death - Jerry Hunt, composer, used live electronics to create new works, employed ritualistic performance techniques, dies in Canton, Texas, of suicide

1993 Event - 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"

1989 Event - "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance

1985 Event - Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King and I"

1984 Event - 1st London performance of musical "Stepping Out" presented

1984 Event - "Weird Al" Yankovic gives free live performance at Del Mar Fair

1984 Event - Weird Al Yankovic gives a live performance at Starlight Amphitheater

1983 Event - "A Chorus Line" 3,389 performance to become longest running Bdwy show

1983 Event - Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington D.C.

1983 Birthday - William Hung, born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, outsider musician, rose to fame for an off-key performance of 'She Bangs' by Ricky Martin on 'American Idol' show

1981 Event - Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs

1980 Event - "Wonderful World of Disney," last performance on NBC-TV

1980 Event - "Onward Victoria" opens/closes at Martin Beck New York City for 1 performance

1977 Event - Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, last performance of his career

1976 Event - Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at New York's Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata"

1974 Event - 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville

1973 Birthday - Jeremy Jordan, born in Hammond, Indiana, singer, actor, pop, dance music, recorded music featured in the film 'Airborne', appeared in made-for-TV movies and theater performance of Never Been Kissed

1972 Event - Smokey Robinson and Miracles final live performance

1972 Event - "Heathen!" opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 1 performance

1971 Event - "Johnny Johnson" opens/closes at Edison Theater New York City for 1 performance

1970 Event - 7,511th performance of Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" (record)

1970 Event - Grateful Dead's in England, 1st performance outside of U.S.

1970 Event - "Gantry" closes at George Abbott Theater New York City after 1 performance

1970 Event - "Gantry" opens at George Abbott Theater New York City for 1 performance

1969 Event - "La Strada" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne New York City for 1 performance

1969 Event - Plastic Ono Band's (John, Yoko and Eric Clapton) 1st live performance

1969 Event - 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (Fillmore East, New York)

1969 Birthday - Cate Blanchett, born in Ivanhoe, Australia, actress, Academy-Award winning performance in 'The Aviator', other films include, 'Elizabeth', 'The Lord of the Rings'

1969 Event - "Billy" opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City after 1 performance

1968 Event - 1st London performance of "Promises Promises" presented

1968 Event - 1st performance of Roger Sessions' 8th Symphony

1966 Event - Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance

1965 Event - 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony

1963 Event - Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool

1962 Event - Rolling Stones 1st performance, Marquee Club, London

1962 Event - 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit

1961 Event - 1st performance of Beach Boys

1961 Event - Bob Dylan's 1st New York performance

1961 Birthday - Leigh Bowery, born in Sunshine, Australia, designer, pop star, model, performance artist, influenced Boy George, Vivienne Westwood

1960 Event - Beatles give their 1st public performance (Kaiserkeller in Hamburg)

1960 Event - Harry Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance

1960 Event - 1st performance of Ferde Grofe's "San Francisco Suite"

1959 Event - Buddy Holly's last performance

1957 Event - 1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony

1957 Event - 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston

1955 Birthday - Diamanda Galas, born America, composer, musician, politically charged performance artist, keyboardist, singer, has a voice range of three and a half octaves

1954 Event - 1st performance of Arnold Schonberg's "Moses und Aaron"

1953 Birthday - Earl Klugh, born in Detroit, Michigan, jazz musician, guitarist, composer, won Grammy award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, 1981

1952 Event - 1st performance of John Cage's "Water Music"

1947 Event - 1st performance of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 8"

1947 Birthday - Laurie Anderson, performance artist, O Superman, Excellent Birds

1946 Event - 1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony

1946 Event - 1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto"

1944 Event - World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum and Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford Conn)

1944 Event - 1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony

1944 Event - 1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony

1943 Birthday - Jerry Hunt, born Waco, Texas, composer, used live electronics to create new works, employed ritualistic performance techniques

1943 Event - 1st performance of Marc Blitzstein's "Freedom Morning"

1942 Birthday - Greg Ridley, born in Cumberland, England, rock, bass guitarist, played for Humble Pie and Spooky Tooth, popular double album Performance Rockin' the Fillmore

1942 Event - 1st performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Choros 6/9/11

1941 Event - 1st U.S. radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"

1941 Event - 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Symphony da Requiem"

1939 Event - 1st performance of Honegger/Claudel's "Jeanne d'Arc Ouch B-cher"

1939 Event - 1st performance of Bela Bartok's 2nd Concerto for violin

1938 Event - NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony

1937 Birthday - Yehuda Yannay, born in Romania, composer, film maker, performance artist, international figure in contemporary music

1930 Event - 1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston)

1927 Event - 1st performance of Roger Sessions' Symphony in E

1926 Event - 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C

1925 Event - 1st London performance of operetta "Fasquita" staged

1923 Event - 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (New York City)

1920 Event - Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (New York City)

1919 Event - 1st public performance of Holst's "Planets"

1917 Event - 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel"

1915 Event - Dutch Opera's 1st performance

1911 Event - Opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance

1908 Event - 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole"

1906 Event - 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine"

1904 Event - 1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)"

1902 Event - 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony

1901 Event - 1st complete performance of Debussy's "Nocturnes"

1901 Event - 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A

1899 Event - 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Concerto in D

1897 Event - 1st performance of Debussy's "Pelleas et Melisande"

1895 Event - 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, New York City)

1895 Event - 1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony

1894 Event - 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz

1893 Event - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted 1st performance of "Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique"

1892 Event - 1st performance of Antonin Dvorak's overture "Carneval"

1888 Event - 1st performance of Cesar Franck's "Psyche"

1885 Event - 1st performance of Cesar Franck's "Lesson Djinns"

1884 Event - 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite

1883 Event - 1st performance of Cesar Franck's "Le Chasseur Maudit"

1882 Event - Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe"

1868 Event - 1st performance of John Brahms' "Ein german Requiem"

1865 Event - Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany

1859 Event - 1st performance of John Brahms' 1st Serenade for orchestra

1858 Event - 1st performance of New York Symphony Orchestra

1849 Event - 1st performance by U.S. actor Edwin Booth (Richard III)

1842 Event - 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony

1841 Event - 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B

1824 Event - 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis"

1819 Event - 1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Schafers Klageleid"

1807 Event - 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B

1805 Event - Opera "Thais" 1st American performance

1803 Event - 1st performance of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony in D

1801 Event - 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten"

1800 Event - 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C

1794 Event - 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D

1713 Event - 1st performance of Georg F Handel's "To Deum" and "Jubilate"

1598 Event - 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)

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