2013 Event In Japan, optimism for economic revival sparked Bank of Japan's stimulus plan, impacts Japan's stock market index; following its release, the Nikkei 225 hits its highest level in nearly five years 2004 Event Tony Awards, Avenue Q, I Am My Own Wife, Henry IV revival and Assassins revival won major awards 2003 Event Tony Awards, Hairspray, Take Me Out, Long Day's Journey Into Night revival and Nine revival won major awards 2002 Event Tony Awards, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Private Lives revival, and Into the Woods revival won major awards 2001 Event Tony Awards, The Producers, Proof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest revival and 42nd Street revival won major awards 2000 Event Tony Awards, Copenhagen, Contact, The Real Thing revival, and Kiss Me Kate revival won major awards 1998 Event Tony Awards, Lion King, Caberet revival, Ragtime, and The Beauty Queen of Leenane won major awards 1998 Event Tony Awards, Side Man, Death of a Salesman revival, Annie Get Your Gun revival and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown revival won major awards 1972 Event Creedence Clearwater Revival breaks up 1945 Birthday John Fogerty, Berkeley Cal, rock vocals, Creedence Clearwater Revival 1944 Birthday Joshua Rifkin, born in New York, musicologist, composer, keyboard, involved in ragtime revival, in the 1970's, recorded Scott Joplin's works for Nonesuch Records 1941 Birthday Tom Fogerty, Berkeley Cal, rocker, Creedence Clearwater Revival 1900 Death William Butterfield, architect of the Gothic revival, dies 1881 Event Revival of Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations 1838 Birthday Henry Hobson Richardson, St. James, Louisiana, Romanesque revival architect