** George Gershwin's Lady Be Good and Fascinating Rhythm ( book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, lyrics by Ira Gershwin ) premiere in New York, NY.

** The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City to the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera, Antony and Cleopatra.

** English composer Benjamin Britten ’ s chamber opera version of The Turn of the Screw receives its world premiere at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice.

** Gershwin's Second Rhapsody for Orchestra with Piano arranged by Grofé, with Lincoln Mayorga on the piano ( premiere recording )

** Grofé's Gallodoro's Serenade for Saxophone and Piano with Al Gallodoro on alto saxophone and Mayorga on piano ( premiere recording )

** The North American premiere of Carlos Chávez's Third Symphony is given by the New York Philharmonic conducted by the composer.

** Benjamin Britten's opera Gloriana is given its US premiere in Cincinnati, in concert form conducted by Josef Krips.

** People Like Us ( Singapore ) ( PLU3 ), the premiere spokesgroup of Singapore's gay intelligentsia

** Pineapple Orange * ( This flavor had a difficult premiere in 1961 or 1962, when unsterilized pineapple juice sourced by Dole fermented in the product and caused bottles to explode on the shelves ).

** Angels in America by Péter Eötvös ( North American premiere )

** Madame White Snake by Zhou Long ( February 2010 ) ( world premiere )

** United States: Played by world premiere from the Los Angeles, California station KROQ-FM and other stations.

** United Kingdom: Played by world premiere from BBC Radio 1 and other stations.

** Calgary ( 1989 ) world premiere at the Alberta Theatre Projects ' playRites ' 89 festival

** Edwin Arthur Jones, b. 1854 / d. 1911 ( Stoughton )-- his cantata for soloists, chorus and orchestra, Song of Our Saviour ( 1881 ), received its world premiere performance in Stoughton in 1992.

** LACE, Los Angeles, CA ( premiere ), 1986

** Sigourney Weaver now has the longest between appearances at 24 years ( her first hosting appearance was the season 12 premiere episode in 1986 ), beating out Madeline Kahn, who had an 18-year gap between her second appearance in 1977 and her third and final appearance in 1995.

** The Man in the Iron Mask ( world premiere by Scott Wentworth )

** Bertolt Brecht, German playwright ( Threepenny Opera ) ( b. 1898 )

** Happy End – Music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Bertolt Brecht.

** Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht

** Happy End – Kurt Weill ( music ), Bertolt Brecht ( lyrics ) and Michael Feingold ( adaptation )

** colour commentary, supplementing play-by-play commentary with talk not directly about play

** if a player is penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct for actions that occurred during a play ending in a touchdown by that team, but before the goal line was crossed, the touchdown will be nullified.

** FDR: That Man in the White House, a play by Dore Schary about Roosevelt

** Holes ( play ), a 1998 stage adaptation of the novel

** Pipes and drums or pipe bands, composed of musicians who play the Scottish and Irish bagpipes

** Chess Module – Increased the G7400's computing power such that it could play chess, also compatible with G7000

** Richard III ( 1699 play ), a play by Colley Cibber

** Richard III ( 1852 play ), a Shakespeare-inspired French play by Victor Séjour

** Farce – aims at entertaining the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases, culminating in an ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene.

** The Toronto Blue Jays play their first game of baseball against the Chicago White Sox.

** The Seattle Mariners play their first-ever game of baseball against the California Angels.

** Goalkeeper Derek Foster of Sunderland becomes the youngest-ever player to play in the Football League, aged 15 years and 185 days.

** Start, led by the goalkeeper Nikolai Trusevich, play football against the German Luftwaffe team Flakelf in Nazi-occupied Kiev.

** The American punk rock band The Ramones play their last show.

** The Seattle Seahawks play their first football game.

** 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 Pittsburgh Steelers win their first ever post-season NFL game, defeating the Oakland Raiders 13 – 7, on a last second play that becomes known as The Immaculate Reception.

** The Scornful Lady, a comedy stage play written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, is published.

** Antonio García Gutiérrez's play El Trovador is performed for the first time in Madrid, Spain.

** Colley Cibber's play Love's Last Shift is performed at the Theatre Royal.

** Ben-Hur ( play ), a Broadway play