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1937 | Béla Bartók premieres his Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
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1939 | Conducting studies under Serge Koussevitzky at Berkshire Music Center, Massachusetts
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Conducting studies under Fritz Reiner at the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia
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World War II Begins
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1940 | Completed First Symphony, "Jeremiah"
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1941 | Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
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1943 | Appointed assistant conductor New York Philharmonic
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1944 | D-Day
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1945 | First computer built
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1947 | Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier
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1948 | Musical advisor, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, 1948–1949 |
State of Israel founded
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1950 | Senator Joseph Mcarthy begins Communist witch hunt
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1951 | Arnold Schoenberg dies
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1954 | Brown v. Board of Education makes segregation illegal in U.S. |
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1955 | James Dean dies |
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1957 | Soviet satellite Sputnik launches the Space Age
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1958 | Edgard Varèse completes Poème électronique
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1959 | Publishes first book, The Joy of Music |
The Sound of Music opens on Broadway
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1960 | Organized Mahler centenary season with New York Philharmonic. |
First televised presidential debates
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1961 | Berlin Wall built
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1963 | President John F. Kennedy is assasinated |
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1964 | The Beatles perform at Carnegie Hall
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Mao Zedong begins the Cultural Revolution in communist China
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1967 | The Six-Day Arab-Israeli War
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1968 | Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy assasinated
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1969 | First man on the moon
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1970 | Became advisor to Tanglewood, 1970–1974 |
The Concorde made its first supersonic flight
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1971 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his final symphony
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1973 | Began the first of his six Norton Lectures at Harvard University |
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1974 | President Nixon resigns
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1975 | Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win a Wimbledon singles title
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1976 | Philip Glass completes Einstein on the Beach
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1977 | Star Wars released
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1978 | Sony introduces the Walkman radio
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1981 | Sandra Day O’Connor becomes first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
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1982 | Published Findings |
The first successful heart transplant is performed
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1984 | The first MTV Video Music Awards are held in New York City
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1986 | US space shuttle Challenger disaster
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1987 | John Adams completes his opera Nixon in China
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1989 | The Berlin Wall is dismantled
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1990 | Launched the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan |
Nelson Mandela released after 27 years in prison
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