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Good Morning All,
Can't believe it's the middle of the month already! Hope your all enjoying beautiful weather as we are in Southern Ontario here. Also hope your getting to play alot. Speaking of playing a lot, it must be time for new strings. Which brings you to us, we are Canada's instrument string supply site. With names like Dean Markley, DR, Elixir, Ernie Ball, Hannabach, John Pearse, Savarez, SIT, Thomastik-Infeld and more, We bring you the strings you need. Strings for your guitars, basses, mandolins, violins or whatever, we'll get them to you fast and cheaper than retail. Use www.globalstrings.com for all your string needs.You'll be glad you did. Thanks for dropping in, we look forward to your order and please do your bit for peace this spring/year. All the Best.
Today in Music History
1738 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
1947 - Operations begin at Radio Netherlands World radio
1966 - Rolling Stones release "Aftermath"
Births in Music
1933 - Roy Clark, Meherrin Va, country singer/guitarist (Hee Haw)
1944 - Dave Edmunds, Wales, singer/guitarist (Rockpile-Baby I Love You)
1637 - Valentin Molitor, composer
1651 - Domenico Gabrielli, composer
1688 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer
1689 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
1757 - George Knowil Jackson, composer
1827 - Julius Tausch, composer
1843 - Carl Eilhardt, composer
1891 - Vaino Raitio, composer
1891 - Alvin Carter, Virginia, vocalist (Carter Family)
1894 - Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)
1898 - Nini de Bool, Flemish operette singer (White Horse)
1908 - Eden Ahbez, American songwriter (d. 1995)
1917 - Pietro Grossi, composer
1921 - Norman Ewart Thurston, musician
1924 - Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor
1931 - Florian Zabach, Chicago Ill, violinist (Hot Canary, Club Embassy)
1935 - Gene Cherico, bassist
1936 - Hector Quintanar, composer
1937 - Bob Luman, American country singer (d. 1978)
1939 - Marti Wilder, British singer, father of rocker Kim Wilde
1940 - Phll Lesh, rocker
1943 - Riem de Wolff, Indonesian/Dutch singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds)
1944 - Gerard Schoenaker, Dutch singer (Les Baroques)
1947 - Wooly Wolstenholme, keyboardist/vocalist (Barclay James Harvest)
1947 - Michael DeBello, singer (Maniac)
1947 - Bojoura, [Raina GB van Melzen], Dutch singer/wife of Hans Cleuver
1947 - Mike Chapman, British songwriter
1948 - Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003)
1949 - Tonio K, American singer
1949 - Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer
1954 - Emmanuel, Mexico City, Mexico, spanish singer
1958 - Matt Reid, rock keyboardist (Berlin-Takes Your Breathe Away)
1962 - Surjit Bindrakhia, Punjabi Bhangra singer
1965 - Linda Perry, American musician
1966 - Graeme Clark, bassist (Wet Wet Wet-Angel Eyes, Love is All Around)
1966 - Samantha Karen Fox, East End London England, singer (Touch Me)
1967 - Frankie Poullain, British musician (The Darkness)
1968 - Ed O'Brien, British musician (Radiohead)
1974 - Josh Todd, American musician (Buckcherry)
1982 - Anthony Green, American musician
1992 - Amy Diamond, Swedish singer
Deaths in Music
1719 - Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer, dies at 76
1756 - Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer, dies at 29
1788 - Giuseppi Bonno, Austrian composer, dies at 77
1811 - Ernest Louis Muller, composer, dies at 70
1853 - Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer, dies at 67
1863 - Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer, dies at 90
1866 - William Jackson, composer, dies at 51
1891 - Stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49
1924 - Eduardo Caudella, composer, dies at 82
1929 - Antonio Smareglia, composer, dies at 74
1937 - Nikolai Artzibushev, composer, dies at 79
1943 - Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, composer, dies at 62
1954 - Juan Vicente Lecuna, composer, dies at 54
1957 - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
1968 - Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshynsky, composer, dies at 73
1974 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
1988 - Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (b. 1954)
1995 - Cleo Brown, pianist, dies at 91
2001 - Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
2004 - Ray Condo, Canadian musician (b. 1950)
2005 - John Fred, American singer (b. 1941)
Today in the News
- The Nevado del Huila volcano erupts in Colombia, causing thousands to evacuate.(CNN)
- Delta Airlines reaches an agreement with Northwest Airlines to take over Northwest and create the world's biggest airline. (AP via Google News)
- The United States begins occupying its new US$736 million embassy in Iraq, one of the largest embassies in the world. Presently under construction, it is approximately as large as the Vatican City and will permanently employ thousands of Americans, including a Marine detachment. (AP via Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
- Silvio Berlusconi is re-elected for the third time as the Prime Minister of Italy. (AP via The International Herald Tribune)
- Nabucco Pipeline: Turkmenistan agrees to supply 10 billion cubic metres of natural gas to the European Union per annum, to reduce the bloc's dependence on gas from Russia. (Financial Times)
News on this Day in History
1755 - Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London.
1802 - William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
1892 - The General Electric Company is formed.
1923 - Insulin become generally available for use by diabetics.
1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
1947 - Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
1955 - Ray Kroc opens his first franchise of McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1957 - White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
1967 - Scotland defeats rival England 3-2 at Wembley Stadium, causing the Scots fans to jokingly claim their side as "Unofficial world Champions", creating the phenomenon of the Unofficial Football World Championships.
1994 - Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995).
Holidays and Observances
- Ancient Latvia — Tipsa Diena was observed.
- Hawaii - Father Damien Day — celebrated annually.
- India - Baisakhi, Pôhela Boishakh, Rongali Bihu.
- North Korea - Arirang Festival held to commemorate Kim Il-sung's birth.
- Roman Empire — the Fordicia was celebrated in honor of Terra.
- United States - April 15 is the official deadline for filing an individual tax return (or requesting an extension) in most areas of the country.
- Translation of relics of Goeric of Metz.
- Abbo II of Metz.
- Saint Petrus Gonzalez.
- Saint Paternus.
- Saint Hunna.
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