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Today in Music History
1805 - First public performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony (Eroica).
1967 - Tom Donahue, SF dj begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM)
1994 - Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion
Births in Music
1908 - Percy Faith, Canadian composer and musician (d. 1976)
1915 - Billie Holiday, [Eleanora Fagan], Balt, singer (Aint Nobodys Business)
1694 - Coelestin Praelisauer, composer
1699 - Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, composer
1727 - Henri Hardouin, composer
1745 - Georg Druschetzky, composer
1748 - Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer
1763 - Domenico Dragonetti, composer
1768 - Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer
1819 - Hubert Leonard, composer
1826 - Johann Hermann Berens, composer
1851 - Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer
1870 - Joseph Ryeland, Belgian composer/Baron
1895 - Eduardo Toldra, composer
1897 - Harald Sigurd Johan Saeverud, composer
1899 - Robert Marcel Casadesus, French pianist/composer (Prix Diemer)
1918 - Peanuts Hucko, Syracuse NY, dixieland clarinetist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1919 - Ralph Flanagan, Loraine Ohio, orch leader (Let's Dance)
1920 - Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player
1922 - Mongo Santamaria, Cuban musician (d. 2003)
1922 - Kenneth Howard Peacock, composer
1924 - Nick Perito, Denver Colo, orch leader (Don Knotts Show, Big Show)
1924 - Ikuma Dan, composer
1927 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (d. 2003)
1932 - Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger
1935 - Bobby Bare, Irontown Oh, country singer (Detroit City)
1937 - Charley Thomas, rocker (Drifters)
1938 - Freddie Hubbard, Indianapolis, jazz trumpeter (Art Blakey)
1940 - Patricia Paay, Dutch singer (You are not hip)
1940 - Jan Wilhelm Morthenson, composer
1943 - Mick Abrahams, Luton, rock guitarist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick)
1943 - Spencer Dryden, NYC, rock drummer (Jefferson Airplane-Go Ask Alice)
1945 - Megas, Icelandic singer, songwriter and writer
1946 - Bill Kreutzmann, Calif, rock drummer (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots)
1946 - Barbara Benary, composer
1947 - Patricia Bennett, US singer (He's So Fine)
1947 - Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1948 - Carol Douglas, American singer
1949 - John Oates, American musician (Hall & Oates)
1951 - Janis Ian, NYC, [Janis Eddy Fink], lesbian/folk rocker (At 17)
1951 - John Dittrich, Union NJ, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1952 - Bruce Gary, Burbank Ca, rock drummer (Knack-My Sharona)
1958 - Tony Aire, rocker (Adventures-Sea of Love)
1960 - Simon Climie, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Climie Fisher-Love Changes)
1967 - Artemis Gounaki, composer, writer and music producer
1970 - Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian pianist
Deaths in Music
1767 - Franz Sparry, composer, dies at 51
1768 - Michel Mathieu, composer, dies at 78
1778 - Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer, dies at 52
1783 - Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer, dies at 71
1833 - Antoni Henryk Radziwill, Lithuanian/Polish composer, dies at 57
1858 - Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher/composer, dies at 76
1862 - Sydney Nelson, composer, dies at 62
1877 - Errico Petrella, composer, dies at 63
1880 - Diederich Krug, composer, dies at 58
1917 - Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer, dies at 53
1958 - Judge Jackson, composer, dies at 75
1958 - Klimenty Arkadayevich Korchmaryov, composer, dies at 58
1961 - Jesus Guridi, composer, dies at 74
1961 - Yusef Greiss, composer, dies at 61
1973 - Nick Stuart, bandleader, dies of cancer at 69
1978 - Ernest Kanitz, composer, dies at 83
1981 - Kit Lambert, British record producer and manager (The Who) (b. 1935)
1988 - Cesar Bresgen, Austrian composer/organist, dies at 74
1994 - Lee Brilleaux, British RandB-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41
1998 - Broery Marantika, Indonesian singer
2005 - Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (b. 1922)
Today in the News
- The Olympic torch is extinguished by officials as police are confronted by protesters during the Olympic torch relay through Paris. (The Evening Standard)
- The head of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge says he's "very concerned" about unrest in Tibet and other issues associated with the Beijing Olympics. (AP via Denver Post)
- China and New Zealand sign a free trade agreement. This is China's first trade agreement with a developed nation. (New Zealand Herald)
- Max Mosely receives criticism over involvement with prostitutes and alleged Nazi roleplaying.
News on this Day in History
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
1795 - France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length.
1827 - John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match. He had invented it the previous year.
1829 - Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
1868 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.
1927 - First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, DC to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1933 - Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
1940 - Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
1983 - During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
Holidays and Observances
- World Health Day - Celebrated by the 191 member countries of the World Health Organization.
- Mozambique - Women's Day.
- Compton, California - Eazy-E Day
- The feast of Annunciation is celebrated by the Western Orthodox Church.
- Saint John Baptist de La Salle (d. 1719)
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