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Today in Music History
1939 - Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
1957 - Howard Hanson's "Song of Democracy," premieres in Washington, DC.
1965 - Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in UK.
1967 - Shortwave broadcaster Radio NY Worldwide's transmitter burns down.
1970 - Paul McCartney announces official split of the Beatles.
1990 - World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall (NYC).
1994 - Singer Wayne Newton (52) weds attorney Kathleen McCrone (30).
Births in Music
1889 - Efrem Zimbalist, Rostov on Don Russia, composer/violinist
1932 - Carl Perkins, American musician/guitarist/songwriter (d. 1998)
1949 - Steve Gadd, jazz drummer (Triplet Hop, Complex Jazz)
1953 - Hal Ketchum, Greenwich NY, country singer (Small Town Saturday Night)
1598 - Johann Crger, German organist/composer/music theorist
1611 - Giacomo Maria Predieri, composer
1627 - Johann Kaspar Kerll, composer
1716 - Johann Georg Zechner, composer
1717 - Georg Matthias Monn, composer
1754 - Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer
1757 - Wojciech Boguslawski, composer
1794 - Theobald Bahm, German flautist/composer, Inventor of the modern flute (d. 1881)
1798 - Giuditta Pasta, [Negri], soprano
1847 - Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer
1847 - Francis William Davenport, composer
1850 - Herman Zumpe, composer
1854 - Seaborn M Denson, composer
1871 - Arthur Fickenscher, composer
1874 - Julius Bittner, Austrian composer (Little Violet)
1883 - Renzo Bossi, composer
1884 - Franco Vittadini, composer
1888 - Florence Smith Price, US composer (Wanamaker Prize 1932)
1894 - Ernest Kanitz, composer
1895 - Mance Lipscomb, Texas, blues musician (Texas Sharecropper)
1895 - Rudolf Kattnigg, composer
1898 - Julius Patzak, Austrian tenor singer
1898 - Paul Robeson, American singer and activist (d. 1976)
1902 - Frantisek Suchy, composer [or April 21, 1891]
1904 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician (d. 1972)
1906 - Antal Dorati, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Dresden Opera 1928-29)
1908 - Fred Lohse, composer
1909 - Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky, composer
1917 - Johannes Bobrowski, German lyricist and writer (d. 1965)
1920 - Art Van Damme, Norway Mich, jazz accordionist (Chicago Jazz)
1923 - Bruno Kiefer, composer
1924 - Harald Heilmann, composer
1928 - Tom Lehrer, parody/folk singer and mathmetician (That Was The Week That Was)
1932 - Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (d. 2006)
1935 - Aulis Sallinen, composer
1936 - Jerzy Maksymiuk, composer
1941 - Kaye Adams, American country singer
1943 - Terry Knight, rock vocalist (Gloria, Terry Knight and the Pack)
1944 - Gene Parsons, rock drummer (Byrds, Gene Clark Group)
1945 - Gus Hardin, [Carol Ann Blankenship], Tulsa Okla, country singer
1946 - Les Gray, vocalist (Mud-Cat Crept In)
1946 - Philip Wright, rocker (Paper Lace)
1949 - Chico Ryan, rock vocalist (Sha Na Na)
1952 - Magnar Am, composer
1957 - Ednita Nazario, Ponce PR, spanish singer
1959 - Dave Innis, Bartlesville Okla, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1961 - Mark Kelly, Dublin Ireland, keyboardist (Marillion-Real to Reel)
1964 - Soyo Oka, Japanese musician
1977 - Gerard Way, American musician (My Chemical Romance)
1978 - Rachel Stevens, English singer (S Club)
1978 - Vesna Pisarović, Croatian singer
1979 - Albert Hammond, Jr., American guitarist (The Strokes)
1985 - Yamashita Tomohisa, Japanese singer (News)
1986 - Brian Larsen, American musician and record producer
1987 - Jesse McCartney, American actor and singer
Deaths in Music
1681 - Alfonso Marsh, composer, dies at 54
1793 - Ernestus Weinrauch, composer, dies at 62
1821 - Felix Maximo Lopez, composer, dies at 78
1851 - Antoine-Charles Glachant, composer, dies at 80
1879 - Ernst Friedrich Richter, composer, dies at 70
1893 - Disma Fumagalli, composer, dies at 66
1916 - Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer, dies at 62
1931 - Paul Antonin Vidal, composer, dies at 67
1933 - Sigfrid Karg-Elert, composer, dies at 55
1939 - Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer, dies at 89
1944 - Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, composer, dies at 59
1947 - Konrad Friedrich Noetel, composer, dies at 43
1954 - Philip Greeley Clapp, composer, dies at 65
1963 - Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (b. 1891)
1976 - Akio Yashiro, composer, dies at 46
1976 - Phil Ochs, singer (Draft Dodger Rag), commits suicide at 35
1976 - Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer, pianist (b. 1903)
1982 - Wilfrid Pelletier, French Canadian conductor (b. 1896)
1988 - Brook Benton, singer (Just a Matter of Time), dies at 56 of meningitis
1988 - David Prater, American singer (Sam & Dave) (b. 1937)
1997 - Mae Boren Axton, American singer and songwriter (b. 1914)
1998 - Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (b. 1953)
Today in the News
- The body representing all National Olympic Committees says it had deleted a mention of Tibet in its Beijing Games declaration after a debate among its members.(International Herald Tribune)
- Swedish neo-Nazi and former mercenary Jackie Arklöv, who currently serves a life sentence for murdering two police officers, receives trademark protection for his name. (Expressen)
- Police in Nepal shoot dead six Maoist rebels the day before the holding of elections in Nepal. (ABC Radio Australia)
- The first Korean astronaut, Yi So-yeon and two Russian Expedition 17 cosmonauts are launched towards the International Space Station on board Soyuz TMA-12. (Spaceflightnow.com)
- Movement for Democratic Change Secretary General Tendai Biti calls for international intervention to thwart violence in the wake of the Zimbabwean presidential election. (BBC)
News on this Day in History
475 - Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
1682 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
1867 - Alaska purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
1947 - The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
1948 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia (La violencia).
1950 - Michel Mourre climbs to the rostrum of the Notre-Dame Cathedral to declaim before the whole congregation a blasphemous anti-sermon on the death of God.
1953 - Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film, entitled House of Wax.
1957 - The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping.
1959 - Mercury program: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, which the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
1967 - The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight.
1975 - The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
Holidays and Observances
- Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor, celebrated as Bataan Day in Bataan) in the Philippines.
- Desan and companions
- Saint Waltrudis
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