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Good Morning Everyone,
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Today in Music History
1970 - Paul McCartney's 1st solo album "McCartney" is released
Births in Music
1929 - James Last, German orchestra leader/composer/arranger
1948 - Jan Hammer, Czech composer (Escape from TV, Miami Vice)
1949 - John Oates, NYC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Hall and Oates-Rich Girl)
1587 - Marco Ivan Lukacic, composer
1683 - Johann David Heinichen, composer
1715 - Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, composer
1719 - Christian Gottfried Krause, composer
1738 - Philip Hayes, composer
1741 - Johann Gottlieb Naumann, composer
1774 - Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek, organist/pianist/composer
1797 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque, Belgian composer/conductor
1811 - Ann Sheppard Mounsey, composer
1820 - Gottfried Conradi, composer
1833 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (d. 1900)
1863 - Johannes P Boskaljon, Curacao composer/conductor
1882 - Artur Schnabel, Lipnik Austria, pianist (Beethoven Piano Sonatas)
1883 - Hermann Darewsky, composer
1885 - Cecil Burleigh, composer
1897 - Harald Saeverud, Bergen Norway, composer (Saline)
1903 - Nicolas Nabokov, Near Lubcha Minsk Russia, composer (Holy Devil)
1903 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Ekaterinoslav Russia, cellist (or 4/20)
1919 - Chavela Vargas, Costa Rican-Mexican singer
1927 - Christopher Whelen, composer
1930 - Chris Barber, British jazz band leader/ trombonist
1930 - Genevieve, Paris France, singer (Jack Paar Show, Scruples)
1932 - Graziella Sciutti, Italian opera singer
1934 - Don Kirshner, American composer
1936 - Pete Graves, rocker (Moonglows)
1940 - Anja Silja, German soprano
1941 - Billy Fury, Liverpool, singer/guitarist (When Will You Say I Love You)
1941 - Adolphus Hailstork, composer
1943 - Roy Estrada, rocker (Morthers Of Invention)
1944 - John Lill, professor/pianist
1947 - Linda Martin, Irish singer
1954 - Michael Sembello, American musician
1955 - Pete Shelley, British musician
1955 - Rob Bolland, Dutch singer/guitarist (Bolland and Bolland)
1959 - Stephen Singleton, Sheffield, rocker (ABC)
1964 - Maynard James Keenan, American singer (Tool and A Perfect Circle)
1967 - Liz Phair, American musician/songwriter
1970 - Redman, American rapper
1974 - Victoria Beckham, English singer (Spice Girls)
1974 - Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish guitarist and singer (Opeth)
1977 - Phil Jamieson, Australian singer (Grinspoon)
1978 - Bilal Abdul-samad, rocker (Boys)
1981 - Hanna Pakarinen, Finnish singer
Deaths in Music
1714 - Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer, dies at 56
1764 - Johann Mattheson, German composer/musicologist, dies at 82
1854 - Gottlob Wiedebein, composer, dies at 74
1873 - Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky, composer, dies at 60
1890 - John Barnett, composer, dies at 87
1891 - Jules Eugene Abraham Alary, composer, dies at 77
1899 - Hans Balatka, composer, dies at 74
1941 - Al Bowlly, British dance band vocalist (b. 1899)
1960 - Eddie Cochran, American musician (b. 1938)
1967 - Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908)
1971 - Roberto Lupi, composer, dies at 62
1974 - Herbert Elwell, US composer (Happy Hypocrite), dies at 75
1983 - Felix Pappalardi, American musician and recording producer (b. 1939) (Mountain)
1987 - Carlton Barrett, Jamaican reggae drummer (No woman no cry), dies at 36
1992 - Hank Penny, country music singer, dies at 73 of heart failure
1998 - Linda McCartney, Keyboard/singer, American-born wife of Paul McCartney (b. 1941)
2003 - Earl King, American musician and songwriter (b. 1934)
Today in the News
- The United States Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of lethal injection as a form of capital punishment over Eighth Amendment "cruel and unusual punishment" challenges. (BBC News)
- Edward Norton Lorenz, a pioneer of chaos theory and originator of the term "butterfly effect", dies at the age of 90.(NY Times)
- South Korean special prosecutors investigating Samsung Group indict the Chairman Lee Kun-hee for tax evasion and breach of trust. (AP via The Wall Street Journal)
News on this Day in History
1397 - Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as when the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury starts.
1492 - Spain and Christopher Columbus sign a contract for him to sail to Asia to get spices.
1521 - Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
1907 - Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than any other day.
1924 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios is formed from a merger of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures, and the Louis B. Mayer Company.
1964 - The Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Mustang at the New York World's Fair.
1964 - Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
1973 - Federal Express delivers its first package.
1982 - Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
1991 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 3,000 for the first time ever gaining 17.58 to 3,004.46.
Holidays and Observances
- World Hemophilia Day
- Liturgical Feast day of the following Catholic saints:
Pope Anicetus (died 166)
Saint Stephen Harding (d. 1134)
- Simeon Barsabae and companions
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