This Day in the Arts: August 1
1971:
George Harrison stages his fund-raising Concert for Bangladesh, featuring, among many others, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton.
1981:
Music Television (MTV) debuts with the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star.”
1986:
Chilean writer Isabel Allende publishes her first novel, The House of the Spirits. Since then her best-selling novels have been translated into 27 languages.
