Tuesday, February 12, 1924. Rhapsody In Blue.

Rhapsody In Blue, a jazz masterpiece, premiered today.  It was written by George Gershwin for Paul Whiteman, for "An Experiment in Modern Music". That event occured on this day in Aeolian Hall, New York City.

It's a masterpiece.  Indeed, it competes for the title of greatest American musical composition.

It's never aged, and indeed, was used relatively recently by United Airlines in its television commercials.

Indeed, that overlapped a bit with their net based and on board commercials that featured sports broadcasting figure Katie Nolan, who recently was a finalist on Celebrity Jeopardy.

 Coolidge put firing Denby on ice, for the time being.

Sunday July 19, 1942. End of the Second Happy Time, Spreading Murder in the East, the Leningrad Suite.

German submarines were ordered withdrawn from the U.S. East Coast due to mounting effectiveness of American anti-submarine efforts, thus brining the "Second Happy Time", Operation Drumbeat, to a close.

Heinrich Himmler ordered that all Jews with the German "General Government", i.e., occupied Poland, be moved to camps by December 31.

German propaganda poster urging Poles to do farm worth with Germany.

NBC broadcast Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony.  It was a big event at the time, and its gone on to be the most streamed performance of the 20th Century.