1887 first performance of Vincent d'Indy's Symphony on a French Mountain Air in Paris at a Lamoureux Concert.
1863 Ernesto Nazareth – Brazilian composer and pianist (d.1934); known for his ‘Brazilian tangos’.
1898 first performance of Dvorák's symphonic poem The Wood Dove Op 110 in Brno with Leos Janácek conducting; the wild dove in the story drives a wife with a guilty conscience to suicide.
1918 Bernd Alois Zimmermann – German composer (d.1970); best known for his opera Die Soldaten (1965), regarded as one of the most important German operas of the 20th century.
1928 The New York Symphony and the New York Philharmonic Society united to form the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, now known as simply ‘The New York Philharmonic’.
1948 Eugene Ormandy conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra live on CBS in the first symphony concert to be televised in the United States; 90 minutes later, NBC carried TV’s second symphonic concert, from Carnegie Hall in New York City: Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony performed Wagner.
1956 first performance of Samuel Barber's Summer Music Op 31 at the Detroit Institute of Arts by the Detroit Chamber Music Society (principal wind players of the Detroit Symphony).