** Rondeau, part of " Symphonies and Fanfares for the King's Supper " by Jean-Joseph Mouret, best known as the theme to Masterpiece Theatre

** Theatre of the United Kingdom – introduced by the Romans and part of the British culture since at least 1585.

** Judy Garland opens the first of 14 concerts in Dublin, Ireland at the Theatre Royal.

** Judy Garland begins her legendary concerts in New York's Palace Theatre.

** Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet opens.

** John Osborne's Look Back in Anger opens at the Royal Court Theatre, London, changing the scope of theatrical and other forms of drama in the UK.

** The Phantom of the Opera, the longest running Broadway show in history, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.

** Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre is first performed at Munich's National Theatre.

** First public performance of Cox and Box by Francis Burnand and Arthur Sullivan, at the Adelphi Theatre, London.

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

** Lyric Theatre, 1927

** The Olney Theatre Center for the Arts, located there

** The Summer Theatre is a rather ordinary Neoclassical structure, erected in 1937 and extensively renovated in 2001.

** Theatre rail, see batten ( theater ), from which lighting fixtures, theatrical scenery, tabs or curtains may be hung

** The Supremes perform for the last time together at Drury Lane Theatre in London before officially disbanding.

** The Clash kick off their first concert on their first American tour at the Berkeley Community Theatre outside San Francisco, California.

** London production opened at His Majesty's Theatre on July 12 and ran for 673 performances

** Broadway production opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on November 5 and transferred to the Shubert Theatre on February 17, 1930 for a total run of 159 performances

** Broadway revue opened at the Selwyn Theatre on December 30 and ran for 136 performances

** Broadway production opened at the Selwyn Theatre on November 7 and ran for 158 performances.

** Broadway production opened at the Belasco Theatre on April 25 and ran for 532 performances

** London production opened at the Palace Theatre on March 11 and ran for 665 performances

** Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on September 16 and ran for 321 performances

** Leaders of the Soviet Union

** President of the Soviet Union

** Premier of the Soviet Union

** 114. flerovium, Fl, named after Soviet physicist Georgy Flyorov, founder of the JINR ( 1999 ).

** The Soviet Union launches 2 scientific satellites, Elektron I and II, from a single rocket.

** Soviet military forces shoot down an unarmed reconnaissance bomber that had strayed into East Germany ; the 3 U. S. flyers parachute to safety.

** U. S. President Lyndon Johnson in New York, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, simultaneously announce plans to cut back production of materials for making nuclear weapons.

** British businessman Greville Wynne, imprisoned in Moscow since 1963 for spying, is exchanged for Soviet spy Gordon Lonsdale.

** Spain beats the Soviet Union 2 – 1 to win the 1964 European Nations Cup.

** Soviet war in Afghanistan ( 1979 – 1989 )-Although taking place almost entirely throughout the 1980s, the war officially started on December 27, 1979.

** The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

** Soviet Union invades Poland, Finland, occupies Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Romanian region of Bessarabia from 1939 to 1941.

** Germany attacks the Soviet Union ( June 22, 1941 ).

** Yalta Conference, wartime meeting from 4 February 1945 to 11 February 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively — for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization, intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.

** A variety of Soviet space program paraphernalia are put to auction in Sotheby's New York, and sell for a total of US $ 6. 8M.

** Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) established by Soviet Union and other communist nations.

** The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, code named " Joe 1 ".

** Natalia Kuchinskaya, Soviet gymnast

** Konstantin Chernenko, President of the Soviet Union ( d. 1985 )

** Space Age – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth.

** Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev are removed from the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

** The Soviet Union launches Venera 6 toward Venus.

** The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 4.

** Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.