** MGM's Technicolor film version of Show Boat, starring Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, and Howard Keel, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

** MGM's Technicolor musical film, An American in Paris, starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, premieres in New York.

** MGM's classic film The Wizard of Oz makes its NBC debut after being telecast on CBS since 1956.

** MGM's 1951 Show Boat is presented on television by NBC for the first time.

** MGM's The Wizard of Oz receives its last of four December telecasts on CBS.

** Metro Pictures, one of MGM's predecessor companies

** Swelling of lymph nodes resulting in buboes, the classic sign of bubonic plague.

** Nelson Mandela makes his " I Am Prepared to Die " speech at the opening of the Rivonia Trial, a classic of the anti-apartheid movement.

** The first episode of the classic British TV series Coronation Street is broadcast.

** Walt Disney's classic Silly Symphony cartoon The Three Little Pigs is first released.

** Cartoon Network has only one digital channel, Boomerang, which focuses on Time Warner's archival animated programming and some other classic cartoons.

** the classic eicosanoids ( affecting inflammation and many other cellular functions )

** Huang Wanqiu 黄婉秋 ( 1943 -; Meixian, Guangdong ; Hakka pronunciation: Vong Van Ciu ), Actor, Lead actress of the classic movie, " Third Sister Liu " 刘三姐

** The modernist classic Ulysses by James Joyce is first published complete in book form by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company in Paris on February 2 ( Joyce's 40th birthday ), with a further edition published in Paris for the Egoist Press of London on October 12 ( much of which is seized by the United States Customs Service ).

** BFG 9000, the fictional weapon of the classic first-person shooter Doom

** Windows 7 removed several classic taskbar features.

** A classic example of cunning, talking, and human-like animals vs. a not-so-smart troll.

** Raiden III, the revival of the classic vertical arcade shooter developed by MOSS Ltd, licenced by Seibu Kaihatsu, and published by Taito

** textiles & apparel are usually the first " take-off " industry, as happened in Great Britain's classic " Industrial Revolution "

** One of 9-Volt's classic Nintendo microgames is based on Hogan's Alley.

** John R. T. Davies ( 1927 – 2004 ) remastering engineer of classic jazz records and musician

** The Film Room with Gordon Solie – Jim Ross introduces classic footage documenting the career of a specific wrestler or tracing a specific event / feud as called by and featuring interviews with Gordon Solie.

** The Losers ( Vertigo ), the Vertigo " modernization " of the classic comic

** The classic Deployment Solution 6. 9 ( eXpress ) is still available,

** classic Santa riding a razor " Noelco " ad from the 1960s

** 1680 classic, 2630, 3120c, 3220, 3500, 5300 express music, 3600 slide, 6020, 6021, 6120, 6220, 6230, 6230i, 6300, 6630, 6820, 5140, 6810, 7200, 7260, 7270, 7610, 8800, E50, E51, E60, E61, E62, E63, E65, E70, E71, E72, N70, N72, N73, N95

** Radio Nova 100FM ( Ireland ), a classic rock and roll station licensed for 100. 3 FM in Dublin

** The musical dynasty to which he belonged – see Bach family

** Marching band, a group of performers that consist of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching ( and possibly other movements ) with their musical performance

** Chord ( guitar ) an aggregate of musical pitches played simultaneously on a guitar

** Key signature, an indication of the key in musical notation

** The closed flute family, in which the musical instrument has a channel to form and direct the air stream over an edge.

** Alla Pugacheva, Russian musical performer

** D ' Jamin Bartlett, American musical theatre actress

** Anthony Braxton, American composer and musical instrumentalist

** The Fantasticks, the world's longest-running musical, opens at New York City's Sullivan Street Playhouse where it will play for 42 years.

** The film Man of La Mancha, based on the hit musical, begins a roadshow run in New York City.

** ABC-TV telecasts a highly acclaimed 90-minute television adaptation of the musical Brigadoon, starring Robert Goulet, Peter Falk, and Sally Ann Howes.

** The musical Hair opens off-Broadway.

** Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress ( d. 2005 )

** Man of La Mancha opens in a Greenwich Village theatre in New York and eventually becomes one of the greatest musical hits of all time, winning a Tony Award for its star, Richard Kiley.

** Koit Toome, Estonian singer and musical actor

** Joan Diener, American musical theatre actress and singer ( d. 2006 )

** Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes, starring Ethel Merman, premieres in New York City.

** François Tourte, French musical instrument maker ( d. 1835 )

** Grease ( film ), 1978 film made from the musical

** Grease: You're the One that I Want !, a U. S. 2007 reality TV show casting the lead roles in revivals of the musical

** Grease is the Word, a U. K. 2007 reality TV show casting the lead roles in revivals of the musical

** Grease: The New Broadway Cast Recording ( 2007 album ), the new Broadway cast recording of the musical featuring Max Crumm and Laura Osnes

** Clue ( musical ), based on the board game