The first performance of George Gershwin's concerto Rhapsody in Blue was given by Paul Whiteman's orchestra with the composer on piano at New York's Aeolian Hall on 12 February 1924, as part of a concert titled An Experiment in Modern Music, and marked the first significant partial rapprochement between jazz and classical music.
A month later, in a small but significant act of rapprochement, the Turks kept their tellies on when Kent-dwelling Greek Cypriot Lisa Andreas stepped out on to the Eurovision stage, and awarded 'Stronger Every Minute' the first point ever exchanged between the two nations.
A performance by Barenboim, the 72-year-old Israeli-Argentinian, in Iran will be a significant moment in the rapprochement between Iran and the west in the wake of the landmark nuclear deal struck in July.
This rapprochement is terribly significant.
Most historians say that both men needed each other too much as adversaries to see significant political benefit in early rapprochement: Mr. Eisenhower needed to show that he was standing up to the new Cuban government, which was bent on nationalizing American assets, while Mr. Castro's own legitimacy, in many ways, was based on his anti-Americanism.
After the end of the cold war, during the Europeanization of the international relations in the region, energy politics played a significant role for Turkish-Russian rapprochement.
China's push for a rapprochement between the North and South is even more significant, another official said, because it unifies the five parties that deal with Pyongyang: the United States, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea.
When Archibald reviewed the troops in St. Boniface, he made the significant gesture of publicly shaking Riel's hand, signaling that a rapprochement had been affected.
The recent rapprochement with Poland over Soviet-era crimes was a smart and possibly significant step.
Together these steps represented the most promising prospect of rapprochement between the North, its Asian neighbours and the US - not to mention the possibility of a significant change in the Korean peninsula status quo - since the armistice of 1953.
