Opening of Radio City Music Hall

Date: December 27, 1932 • Location: Manhattan, United States

New York City's Radio City Music Hall (pictured) opened with the world's largest auditorium at the time.

Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue and theater at 1260 Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Nicknamed "The Showplace of the Nation", it is the headquarters for the Rockettes. Radio City Music Hall was designed by Edward Durell Stone and Donald Deskey in the Art Deco style.