In 1962 the Sidney Janis Gallery mounted The New Realists, the first major pop art group exhibition in an uptown art gallery in New York City.

* October 11 – NBC airs the first episode of Saturday Night Live ( George Carlin is the first host ; Billy Preston and Janis Ian the first musical guests ).

* Janis Londraville, editor, ( 2003 ) Prodigal Father Revisited: Artists and writers in the World of John Butler Yeats, Locust Hill Press, includes papers from first John Butler Yeats Seminar, Chestertown 2001.

The first U. S. settlers arrived that same year in a party led by Antoine Janis from Fort Laramie.

Janis, who had visited the area near Bellvue in 1844 and proclaimed it " the most beautiful place on earth ", returned to file his official claim and helped found the first U. S. settlement in present-day Colorado, called Colona, just west of Laporte.

* Big Brother and the Holding Company, Janis Joplin's first band, lived in Lagunitas from 1966 – 1967, next door to Country Joe and the Fish and the Quicksilver Messenger Service.

It became the home of Antoine Janis in 1844, who is often noted as the first permanent white settler north of the Arkansas River.

It was then that Janis Joplin arrived as both the first female performer to achieve both accolades from her peers as a blues performer and a " crossover " commercial success who reached diverse audiences with a powerful and emotive vocal delivery.

In 1979, Midler made her first motion picture, starring in the 1960s-era rock and roll tragedy The Rose, as a drug-addicted rock star modeled after Janis Joplin.

The first head of the 4th Directorate was Janis Karlovich Berzin, a Latvian Communist and former member of the Cheka, who remained in the post until 28 November 1937, when he was arrested and subsequently liquidated during Joseph Stalin's purges.

* " All Is Loneliness " by Big Brother and the Holding Company, featuring Janis Joplin, on their self-titled first album ( 1967 )

One of the most popular jazz recordings of 1980, " Birdland " brought the group their first Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance ), and Janis Siegel was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices for her arrangement of " Birdland ".

The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large scale public performance of Janis Joplin, and the introduction of Otis Redding to a large, predominantly white audience.

Her mother and stepfather, Sandra and Eddie Wilson, own the restaurant " Threadgill's " in Austin, famous for being the site of Janis Joplin's first performance.

Among the first settlers to establish claims were former fur traders who returned to the lands they once trapped, including Antoine Janis and other trappers from Fort Laramie who established a townsite near Laporte along the Cache la Poudre in 1858.

However, the addition of film and stage actress Janis Paige as Sam's long gone first wife Laureen was filled with potential that never got the chance to be explored.

* October 31-The Sidney Janis Gallery mounts International Exhibition of the New Realists, a survey of contemporary American Pop Art and the European Nouveau Réalisme movement and the first Pop Art group exhibition in an ' uptown gallery ' in New York City, a rented storefront at 19 W. 57th Street, near the main gallery at 15 E. 57th Street.

* French-Canadian singer Céline Dion covered the song for the first time live in tribute to Janis Ian on the 2008 Grammy Nominations TV special.

Janis also took her act on the road, entertaining troops stationed near the front lines-one of the first popular American artists to do so in a war fought on foreign soil.

Byron Janis is the first pianist to receive the V. E. R. A.

Mr. Janis served as the first mentor at the Very Special Arts ( VSA ) International Young Soloists Awards in June 2012.

Hall and his wife, Johanna, had just gained notoriety when their song " Half Moon " had appeared on their friend Janis Joplin's posthumous album Pearl.

James was friends with fellow Motown acts Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye, though his friendship with the latter artist was tested after James began dating Gaye's former wife, Janis Gaye.

* Janis Hansen, actress who played Gloria, wife of Felix Unger, on The Odd Couple.

" Both men open up about how it has effected them and their relationships, McKenna's wife Janis is also interviewed during the documentary and goes through the diagnosing process on camera with Patrick.

* Harrumf, Janis ' wife, who becomes Pall's half-wife for a year after Janis ' self-sacrifice post-rankout

Songs included in the album didn't just deal with the singer's troubling marriage (" I Met a Little Girl ", " Anna's Song ", " You Can Leave, But It's Going To Cost You ") but with other deep issues including anger management (" Anger "), Jesus (" Everybody Needs Love ", " Time to Get It Together "), solace (" Sparrow "), space ( the loosely funky " A Funky Space Reincarnation ") and new love (" Falling In Love ", the one song dedicated to Marvin's new wife, Janis ).

Around the same time, Marvin's relationship with second wife, Janis, had also fallen apart and the couple separated sometime in 1979.

The album cover for Madman Across the Water was embroidered over two weeks by Janis Larkham, wife of the album art director David Larkham.

In 1933, he met and married his second wife, Vivian Janis.

He played as a solo act in coffee houses and can be heard accompanying a young Janis Joplin on acoustic guitar on an historic 1964 recording ( known as " The Typewriter Tapes " because of the obtrusive sound of Kaukonen's first wife Margareta typing in the background ).

Janis also happens to spot Kosnov leaving a local night club with a woman whom he discovers was Polyakov's devoted wife, Erika Beck ( Bibi Andersson ).

1, alongside Marvin's wife, Janis.

Janis sold his cabin and accompanied his wife to the reservation, where he died in 1890.

In April 1992, it was located in the cemetery adjoining All Souls Church, South Ascot by Metropolitan Police Fingerprint Expert Maurice Garvie & his wife Janis.

In the forward of Love, Janis, Laura Joplin's biography of her relationship with her famous sister, Till and his Stratford born wife, Dorcas, are thanked for providing some of the material for the book.

* Janis is Arlo's wife.

The couple surprised Arlo and Janis with a small wedding ceremony in September of 2012, and they seem to have been pronounced man and wife in a pantomime daily on 9 / 20 / 2012.

On June 13, 2010, producer Wyck Godfrey said Amy Adams starred in director Fernando Meirelles ' biographical drama, titled Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can.

It was prefaced by the Human Be-In event in March and reached its peak at the Monterey Pop Festival in June, the latter helping to make major American stars of Janis Joplin, lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jimi Hendrix and The Who.

In June of that year, they, along with Otis Redding, appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival, alongside performers like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, and Jefferson Airplane.

Englund was born in Glendale, California on June 6, 1947, the son of Janis ( née MacDonald ) and John Kent Englund, an aeronautics engineer who helped develop the Lockheed U-2 aircraft .< ref name = autogenerated1 >

In June 1995, Janis Kenyon held a tango festival at Northwestern University.

Richard Bell: ( b. March 5, 1946, Toronto-d. June 15, 2007, Toronto ) pianist for Janis Joplin, worked with Blackie and the Rodeo Kings as their keyboardist for a number of years before his death in 2007.

Janis Rachel Lomax ( born 15 July 1945 ) in Swansea Wales is a British economist and former government official who served as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, sitting on the Monetary Policy Committee from 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2008.

Her former brother-in-law is Byron Janis, who was married to Clarissa's elder sister, June, but the marriage ended in divorce.

Janis staked out a squatter's claim on the river bottom just west of present-day Laporte in June 1844, with the expectation of returning to homestead there once it was possible to legally file the claim.

* June 30 — The divorce of Vince and Janis Gill ( of Sweethearts of the Rodeo ) is finalized.