What happened on December 22
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1808218 yrs ago
Beethoven premieres his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies in one night
The Vienna benefit concert also introduced his Fourth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy. It lasted about four hours in a chilly hall, and the playing was rough.
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195868 yrs ago
"The Chipmunk Song" hits No. 1 in the US
Ross Bagdasarian's Christmas novelty record led the Hot 100 for four weeks, into January 1959. It also won three Grammy Awards.
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198442 yrs ago
"Like a Virgin" becomes Madonna's first US No. 1
The Nile Rodgers production reached the top of the Hot 100 just six weeks after entering the chart, then held on for six weeks.
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200026 yrs ago
O Brother, Where Art Thou? opens in US theaters
The film's soundtrack went on to win the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2002.
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1858168 yrs ago
Opera composer Giacomo Puccini is born
His best-known operas include La bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly. He left Turandot unfinished, and Franco Alfano completed it after his death.
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194977 yrs ago
Bee Gees twins Robin and Maurice Gibb are born
The twins were born in Douglas on the Isle of Man. Their group, the Bee Gees, is estimated to have sold more than 200 million records.
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196066 yrs ago
2 Live Crew leader Luther Campbell is born
The rapper was at the heart of Campbell v. Acuff-Rose, a Supreme Court case over 2 Live Crew's parody of Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman."
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193987 yrs ago
Ma Rainey, the Mother of the Blues, dies
Her 1927 record "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" became a blues standard and later gave its name to August Wilson's play and a 2020 film starring Viola Davis.
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200224 yrs ago
The Clash's Joe Strummer dies at 50
Rolling Stone voted the Clash's London Calling the top album of the 1980s. The band entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003, the year after his death.
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201412 yrs ago
Joe Cocker dies at 70
His "With a Little Help from My Friends" went to No. 1 in the UK in 1968. His duet with Jennifer Warnes, "Up Where We Belong," topped the Hot 100 and won a Grammy.
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