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Today in Music History
1792 - La Marseillaise (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1926 - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot," premieres in Milan
1984 - Rock group Wings disbands
Births in Music
1840 - Peter Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (1812 Overture)
1918 - Ella Fitzgerald, Newport News VA, jazz singer (Is it live or Memorex)
1923 - Albert King, Mississippi, blues singer/guitarist (Bad Look Blues)
1567 - Aurelio Signoretti, composer
1614 - Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, composer
1666 - Johann Heinrich Buttstett, composer
1690 - Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, composer
1723 - Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer
1730 - Fedele Fenaroli, composer
1818 - Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer
1837 - William Charles Levey, composer
1841 - Pauline Lucca, soprano
1869 - Karl Prohaska, composer
1876 - Ruben Marcos Campos, composer
1897 - Haro Levoni Stephanyan, composer
1901 - Ernst Gernot Klussmann, composer
1903 - Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, composer
1906 - Zoltan Gardonyi, composer
1907 - Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy, composer
1909 - Jaroslav Doubrava, composer
1913 - Earl Bostic, Tulsa OK, alto sax player (Flamingo, Temptation)
1918 - Astrid Varnay, Stockholm Sweden, soprano (Met Opera 1941-56)
1918 - [Ibolyka] Astridm Varnay, Hungarian/US singer (WalkÂre)
1919 - Heinz Wunderlich, composer
1924 - Erzsebet Szonyi, composer
1924 - Franco Mannino, composer
1926 - Paul Walter Furst, composer
1927 - Ernst Widmer, composer
1933 - Jerry Leiber, American composer
1940 - O B McClinton, [Burnett], country singer (Keep your arms around me)
1941 - Chris Augustine, rocker (Every Mother's Son)
1942 - John Martin Dalby, composer
1945 - Bjorn Ulvaeus, rock vocalist/guitarist (ABBA-Waterloo, Dancing Queen)
1945 - Michael Kogel, rocker
1945 - Stu Cook, rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary)
1946 - Ronnie Gilbert, rocker (Lifeline, Harp)
1946 - Digby Fairweather, jazz trumpeter
1947 - Bill Fontana, composer
1949 - Michael Brown, NYC, keyboardist (Left Bank-Don't Walk Away Renee)
1950 - Steve Ferrone, Sussex, rock drummer (Average White Band)
1952 - Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist
1952 - Cory Day, Bronx NY, rock vocalist
1954 - Rob Crosby, Sumter SC, country singer (She's a Natural)
1958 - Flab, rocker
1958 - Fish, [Derek William Dick], Scottish vocalist (Marillion-Sugar Mice)
1959 - Billy Rankin, Glasgow, Scotland, rocker
1964 - Andy Bell, British singer and songwriter (Erasure-Oh L'Amour)
1965 - Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction, Deconstruction, Polar Bear)
1965 - Simon Fowler, English musician (Ocean Colour Scene)
1966 - James Stacy Barbour, American actor and singer
1973 - Fredrik Larzon, Swedish drummer (Millencolin)
1975 - Ruben Gomez, rocker (Menudo-Cannonball)
1977 - Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer
1977 - Matthew West, American Christian singer
Deaths in Music
1472 - Leon Battista degli Alberti, scupltor/musician (Dinner Pieces)
1663 - Heinrich Pape, composer, dies at 53
1792 - Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Beckmann, composer, dies at 54
1808 - Alois Luigi Tomasini, composer, dies at 66
1906 - John Knowles Paine, US composer, dies at 67
1915 - Nicola d' Arienzo, composer, dies at 72
1925 - George Stephanescu, composer, dies at 81
1951 - Jerzy Fitelberg, composer, dies at 47
1960 - Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn, composer, dies at 92
1971 - Max Drischner, composer, dies at 80
1975 - Mike Brant, Israeli singer (b. 1947)
1988 - Boris Kremenliev, composer, dies at 76
1990 - Dexter Gordon, Jazz saxophonist, dies of kidney failure at 67
1992 - Brian Macleod, Canadian musician, dies of cancer at 39
1992 - Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
2002 - Lisa Lopes, American rapper (TLC) (b. 1971)
2007 - Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
Today in the News
- Operation Orchard: The United States claims North Korea helped Syria build a nuclear reactor at a site destroyed by Israeli forces in September 2007. (AFP via Google News)
- Final results in the Nepal Constituent Assembly election show that the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) won double the number of seats of the next largest party. (AFP via Google News)
News on this day in History
1829 - Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
1849 - The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
1859 - British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
1901 - New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
1959 - The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
1961 - Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
1983 - Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
1983 - American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
1990 - The Hubble Telescope is deployed into orbit from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Holidays and Observances
- ANZAC Day (Australia, New Zealand).
- Faroe Islands - National Flag Day.
- Official Red Hat Society day.
- Portugal - Freedom Day.
- Roman Empire - Robigalia in honor of Robigus.
- Saint Mark the Evangelist.
- Saint Anianus.
- Liberation from Nazism of Italy (1945).
- World Malaria Day.
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