On This Day in History
The Sound of Music opens on Broadway
1959The Sound of Music, a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. (The Sound of Music)
Also on this day
- 1938 Albert Hofmann first synthesizes LSD — Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic drug LSD in Basel.
- 1776 The Dutch give the first foreign salute to an American flag — A Dutch fort on Sint Eustatius returned a salute from the Continental Navy brig Andrew Doria, the first international recognition of the American flag, an event later called the First Salute.
Born this day in 1922: José Saramago, Portuguese novelist and Nobel laureate.
Events from Wikipedia’s On This Day list, CC BY-SA 4.0. See also the Library of Congress essay Today in History.