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Today in Music History
1849 - Opera "Il Profeta," premieres in Paris
1924 - 1st radio-transmission of wireless: St. Matthius Passion
1940 - Heitor Villa-Lobos' opera "Izaht," premieres in Rio de Janeiro
1994 - Singer Harry Connick Jr (26) weds model Jill Goodare (30)
Births in Music
1924 - Henry Mancini, Cleveland, composer/conductor (Pink Panther)
1935 - Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler, blues singer/guitarist
1945 - Stefan Grossman, NYC, country blues singer (Yazoo Basin Boogie)
1947 - Gerry Rafferty, Paisley Scotland, guitarist/vocalist (Baker Street)
1673 - Francesco Feroci, composer
1697 - Johann Gottlieb Gorner, composer
1703 - Caffarelli, [Gaetano Majorano], Italian castra singer/duke
1800 - Jozef Stefani, composer
1838 - Karel Bendl, composer
1868 - Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer
1871 - Martin Lunssens, composer
1882 - Seth Bingham, composer
1885 - Leo Weiner, Hungary, composer (Fasching)
1886 - Konstantin Mostras, composer
1886 - Jekabs Graubins, composer
1893 - Federico Mompou, composer
1893 - Joseph Yasser, composer
1897 - Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree, composer
1897 - Jaap Vranken, Dutch organist/composer (Stabat Mater)
1901 - Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen)
1904 - Lily Pons, Draguignan France, soprano diva (Hitting a New High)
1913 - Constance Shacklock, opera singer
1924 - Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (d. 1976)
1929 - Roy Hamilton, singer (You'll Never Walk Alone)
1929 - Ed Townsend, American singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
1930 - Herbie Mann, Brooklyn NY, jazz flute/sax (Just Wallin')
1932 - Vince Hill, singer (Roses of Picardy, La Vie en Rose)
1933 - Perry Botkin Jr, NYC, orch leader (Bert Convy Show)
1935 - Bobby Vinton, Pitts Pa, singer (Roses are Red, Blue on Blue)
1939 - Dusty Springfield, [Mary O'Brien], London, vocalist (Growing Pains)
1939 - John DeLaFose, zydeco Musician
1940 - Stephen Lawrence Pruslin, composer
1943 - Dave Peverett, English musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown) (d. 2000)
1944 - Dennis Russell Davies, composer
1951 - John Bentley, rocker
1951 - Björgvin Halldórsson, Icelandic singer
1953 - Peter Garrett, Australian singer/musician (Midnight Oil)
1961 - Doris Dragović, Croatian singer
1962 - Ian MacKaye, American musician, (Fugazi and Minor Threat)
1963 - Jimmy Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Donnie and Marie)
1964 - Dave Pirner, American rock singer (Soul Asylum)
1965 - Gerardo, rocker
1971 - Selena [Quintanilla], Texas, spanish singer (Grammy-1994)
1973 - Bonnie Pink, Japanese singer
1974 - Mat Devine, American singer (Kill Hannah)
1974 - Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress, singer and director
1983 - Marié Digby, American Singer
1985 - Benjamín Rojas, Argentine actor and singer
Deaths in Music
1645 - Tobias Hume, English composer
1846 - Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer, dies at 83
1858 - Johann Baptist Cramer, Ger/Brit pianist/composer/publisher, dies at 87
1876 - Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer, dies at 83
1881 - George William Martin, composer, dies at 56
1920 - John Conrad Nordqvist, composer, dies at 80
1992 - Andy Russell, drummer/vocalist (Your Hit Parade), dies of stroke at 72
1996 - Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist, dies at 62
1999 - Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1946)
Today in the News
- A 13-year-old German schoolboy believes he has corrected NASA's calculation that 99942 Apophis will crash into the Earth from 45,000 to 1, to 450 to 1. (The Register)
- A five-year ban preventing prominent Malaysian Opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim from running for office in Malaysia effectively expires midnight (MST).
- Around 40 people, mostly children, die after a bus plunged into the Narmada River in the western Indian state of Gujarat. (BBC News)
- The People of Freedom alliance led by Silvio Berlusconi wins the general election in Italy.
News on this Day in History
1178 BC - A solar eclipse may mark the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War.
1521 - Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire.
1853 - The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
1881 - In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1919 - Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the British slaughter of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre.
1935 - 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee and Molly"
1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
1947 - Jackie Robinson breaks the racial barrier of Major League Baseball. He is the first African American player to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1948 - Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht Britannia.
1956 - 1st solar powered radios go on sale
1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
Holidays and Observances
- Emancipation Day in Washington, D.C.
- Saint Benedict Joseph Labre
- Saint Drogo
- Saint Fructuosus
- Saint Paternus
- Saint Turibius
- Martyrs of Zaragoza, martyrs of 304
- Saint Bernadette
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