1958 – Van Cliburn of Kilgore, TX, earned 1st prize in the Soviet Union’s Tchaikovsky International Piano Contest in Moscow. He was the first American to win the award.
1967 – The Rolling Stones performed their first concert behind the Iron Curtain at the Palace of Culture in Warsaw, Poland.
1969 – Diana Ross appeared solo on Dinah Shore’s NBC-TV special “Like Hep”.
1970 – Led Zeppelin became the first band to sell out the Montreal Forum.
1980 – The Broadway musical “Grease” closed after 3,883 performances.
1982 – David Crosby (Byrds, CSN) was arrested for the second time in three weeks for drugs in Dallas.
1985 – The single “We Are the World” hit #1 in the U.S.
1985 – “The Grand Ole Opry” debuted on television.
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