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12th February 1924: First performance of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”

12th February 2022
Tagged as: America, Culture, Gershwin, Jazz, Music, New York, USA

George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue was performed for the first time at a concert by Paul Whiteman and his Palais Royal Orchestra called An Experiment in Modern Music.

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26th February 1917: The Original Dixieland ‘Jass’ Band makes the first commercially released jazz recording

26th February 2021
Tagged as: Chicago, Culture, Jazz, Music, New Orleans, New York, Recording

The resulting record was released in May, and went on to sell hundreds of thousands of copies.

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12th February 1924: First performance of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”

26th February 1917: The Original Dixieland ‘Jass’ Band makes the first commercially released jazz recording

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

22nd May 1849: Abraham Lincoln becomes the first and only President to be awarded a patent

21st May 1927 and 1932: Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic, followed five years later by Emilia Earhart as the first woman

20th May 1882: Establishment of the Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy

19th May 1536: The execution of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife and mother of the future Elizabeth I

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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