Sanarchive:Selected anniversaries/February 9

9 February: Major events in the arts

1893 – Giuseppe Verdi's final opera, Falstaff, premiered at La Scala in Milan, marking a triumphant conclusion to the composer's long and prolific career.
1964 – The Beatles made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, attracting a record-breaking 73 million viewers and forever changing the history of music and television.
2020 – The South Korean film Parasite made history by becoming the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.