The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.February 22 – Plácido Domingo makes his international breakthrough at the première of Ginastera's Don Rodrigo in New York City.February 16 – The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.February 12 – Anna Moffo collapses onstage at Covent Garden in the first act of Rigoletto, and her part is taken over, after a delay of 45 minutes, by Welsh soprano Elizabeth Vaughan.February 9 – The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show, which breaks television ratings records.February 7 – The Beatles arrive in the United States and are greeted by thousands of screaming fans at New York's Kennedy Airport.Governor Welsh claimed that hearing the song made his 'ears tingle.' Publisher Max Firetag offers $1,000 to anyone that can find anything 'suggestive' in the song's lyrics.

He requests that the Indiana Broadcasters Association ban the record. Welsh declares the song ' Louie Louie' by The Kingsmen pornographic.

February 1 – Indiana Governor Matthew E.

The following week a second album credited to the late President would also hit the Top 10, giving Kennedy two posthumous albums simultaneously in the Top 10. Kennedy: The Presidential Years 1960–1963. Kennedy becomes the first President credited with a Top 10 album after Dickie Goodman releases John F.

January 18 – The Beatles appear on the Billboard magazine charts for the first time.

On April 9, Capitol Records is granted an injunction restraining Vee Jay Records from further manufacturing, distributing or advertising recordings by the Beatles.

January 15 – Vee Jay Records files a lawsuit against Capitol Records and Swan Records over manufacturing and distribution rights to Beatles albums.

January 13 – Bob Dylan's The Times They Are a-Changin' is released on Columbia Records.

The Beatles, the first album by The Beatles to be released in the United States, comes out on Chicago's Vee-Jay Records, preceding Capitol Records' release of Meet the Beatles!, scheduled for January 20. January 3 – Footage of the Beatles performing a concert in Bournemouth, England is shown on The Jack Paar Show.January 1 – Top of the Pops is broadcast for the first time, on BBC television in the U.K.

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