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Today in Music History
1935 - 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY
1964 - John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years
1970 - John and Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations
1973 - John and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence
1990 - Guns and Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames
1992 - Rocker Billy Idol fined $2,000 for hitting a woman
Births in Music
1873 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Novgorod Russia, composer (Prelude in C# Minor)
1895 - Alberta Hunter, blues singer/composer (Downhearted Blues)
1939 - Rudolph Isley, Cincinnati Ohio, rocker (Isley Brothers-Shout)
1946 - Arthur Conley, US soul singer (Sweet Soul Music)
1948 - Jimmy Cliff, Reggae singer
1954 - Jeff Porcaro, LA Calif, drummer/percussionist (Toto-Roxanne, Africa)
1582 - Thomas Simpson, composer
1643 - Christian Demelius, composer
1721 - Pieter Hellendaal, Dutch violinist/organist/composer (Glees)
1725 - Francois Bainville, composer
1732 - Franz Josef Haydn, Austria, composer (Die Schapfung)
1772 - Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer
1802 - Hubert Reis, composer
1834 - Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer
1847 - Gavriil Musicescu, composer
1866 - Ferruccio D M B Busoni, Italy, pianist/composer/conductor (Arlecchino)
1871 - F Melius Christiansen, composer
1872 - Tadeusz Joteyko, composer
1883 - Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor
1886 - Casimir von Paszthory, composer
1901 - Boris Koutzen, composer
1905 - Winfried P I Zillig, German opera composer/conductor (Fantasia Irica)
1907 - Walter Kaufmann, composer
1909 - Eddie Duchin, Mass, society pianist/bandleader (Eddie Duchin Orch)
1914 - Carla van Neste, Belgian violinist
1915 - Art Lund, Salt Lake City Utah, singer (Ken Murray Show)
1917 - Johnny Andrews, Boston, singer/host (Songs at Twilight)
1921 - Douglas Allenbrook, composer
1921 - William L Bergsma, Oakland California, composer (Fortunate Island)
1924 - Gunther Becker, composer
1926 - Charles Bressler, American tenor
1927 - Amos Milburn, American pianist (d. 1980)
1929 - Jane Powell, American dancer, actress, and singer
1930 - Joan Franks-Williams, composer
1932 - Jiri Smutny, composer
1942 - Alan Blakley, rocker (Brian Poole and The Tremeloes)
1942 - Danny Brooks, rocker (Dovells)
1942 - Phil Margo, Bkln, rock vocalist (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight)
1946 - Ronnie "Plonk" Lane, London, rock bassist (Small Faces-Hey Girl)
1946 - John Barbata, drummer (Turtles-Happy Together, Eleanor)
1947 - M, English singer
1948 - Simon Crowe, rock drummer (Boomtown Rats-Maxinguaye)
1949 - Gil Scott-Heron, American musician and composer
1952 - Billy Currie, rock keyboardist/violinist (Ultravox-We Came to Dance)
1955 - Stan Ridway, rocker (Wall Of Voodoo)
1956 - Peter O'Toole, Irish pop bassist (Hothouse Flowers-People)
1958 - D. Boon, American musician d. 1985)
1961 - Mark White, rock guitarist (ABC-All of My Heart)
1965 - Robert Steadman, English composer
1967 - Phil Demmel, American musician
1971 - Method Man, American rapper
1972 - Jesse Tobias, American musician
1974 - Richard Christy, American drummer
1975 - John Butler, Australian singer and musician
1981 - Hannah Spearritt, British singer
Deaths in Music
1528 - Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer
1580 - Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer
1734 - Louis Lully, composer, dies at 69
1799 - Narciso Casanovas, composer, dies at 52
1807 - Louis Francois Chambray, composer, dies at 69
1807 - Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer, dies at 61
1830 - Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer, dies at 51
1865 - Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (b. 1797)
1866 - Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer, dies at 98
1878 - Eugene Gautier, composer, dies at 56
1915 - Johann Joseph Abert, composer, dies at 82
1917 - Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (Maple Leaf Rag, The Sting), dies at 48
1918 - Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer, dies at 64
1925 - Francis William Davenport, composer, dies at 77
1930 - Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner, dies at 92
1936 - Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer, dies at 61
1951 - Clement D'Hooghe, composer, dies at 51
1964 - Bozidar Kunc, composer, dies at 60
1974 - Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer, dies at 86
1976 - Freddie Lennon, father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63
1976 - Miroslav Ponc, composer, dies at 73
1981 - Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (b. 1910)
1984 - Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)
1998 - Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (b. 1963)
2001 - Trinh Cong Son, Vietnamese composer (b. 1939)
2003 - Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (b. 1956)
2004 - Nilo Soruco, Bolivian songwriter (b. 1927)
2005 - Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer (b. 1915)
2005 - Jack Keller, American songwriter (b. 1936)
Todays News
- The Swedish national postal service will merge with its Danish counterpart, the new group will be based in Stockholm. (Reuters)
- Finland's Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva is forced to resign after a scandal involving 200 text messages sent to a stripper. (CNN)
- India sends warning to Dalai Lama. (BBC)
- Fraud fear over Zimbabwe vote delays. (CNN World)
Today in History
1826 - Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
1854 - Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words.
1857 - Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man.
1891 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
1912 - The Greek athlete Konstantinos Tsiklitiras breaks the world record -in standing long jump jumping 3.47 meters.
1924 - The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
1963 - The soap opera General Hospital has its TV debut.
1970 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States starting on January 1, 1971.
1973 - Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India.
1976 - Apple Computer is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
1976 - Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by the astronomer Patrick Moore.
1979- The cable channel, Nickelodeon goes on the air.
1981 - Daylight saving time is introduced in the USSR.
1996 - The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia is created.
1999 - Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
2001 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, which is the first country to allow it.
2002 - The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so.
Holidays and Observances
- April 1 is known as April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day in many countries.
- Last day of the Assyrian New Year Celebration.
- Roman Empire - Veneralia celebrated to honor Venus.
- Brielle celebrates the victory of 1572 over the Spaniards.
- In San Marino, two Captains Regent, elected by Parliament, take office for six months.
- Užupis - Residents celebrate their independence on Užupis Day.
- Saint Hugh of Grenoble
- Saint Waleric
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