Good Morning Canada,
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Today in Music History
1877 - The first sound recording is made. Inventor Thomas Alva Edison records ``Mary Had a Little Lamb.''
1967 - Fleetwood Mac makes its performance debut. Windsor Jazz & Blues Festival, England.
1997 - Trisha Yearwood fans in Lynden, Wash., get an added treat when the singer is joined on stage by her occasional duet partner and friend, Garth Brooks. The two sing their hit song "In Another's Eyes."
1999 - A record-setting 15-show stand by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, N.J., comes to a close after grossing about $19 million.
Births in Music
1914 - Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (I'll Never Smile Again) (d. 1981)
1929 - Buck Owens, [Alvis Edgar], Sherman Texas, country singer (Hee Haw)
1949 - Mark Knopfler OBE, Scotland, guitar/vocals (Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing)
1954 - Pat Methany, jazz guitarist (As Wichita Falls)
1980 - Matt Thiessen, Canadian-born musician (Relient K)
1626 - Giovanni Legrenzi, composer
1644 - Georg Christoph Leuttner, composer
1644 - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Bohemian composer
1696 - Maurice Greene, English composer
1751 - Johann Baptist Lasser, composer
1825 - Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, composer
1853 - Jean Louis Nicode, composer
1875 - Ettore Panizza, composer
1875 - Mezio Agostini, composer
1881 - Vaclav Vackar, composer
1885 - Alexander Albrecht, composer
1890 - Al Goodman, Nikopol Russia, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
1897 - Manuel Blancafort, composer
1897 - Ramon Gonzalez Barron, composer
1900 - Jose Ignacio Prieto Arrizubieta, composer
1910 - Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (Romeo and Juliet)
1920 - Percy Mayfield, US singer (Please Send Me Someone to Love)
1925 - Earl Coleman, singer
1926 - Joe Jones, American R&B singer (d. 2005)
1927 - Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, cellist/conductor
1929 - Joji Yuasa, composer
1932 - Porter Wagoner, country singer, discovered Dolly Parton (Y'All Come)
1932 - Sergey Mikhaylovich Slonimsky, composer
1936 - Gerard Masson, composer
1940 - Alexander Yossifov, composer
1941 - Sam Andrew, rocker (Big Brother and The Holding Co)
1944 - Peter Hofmann, German tenor
1948 - Cliff Fish, rocker (Paper Lace)
1948 - Ron Mael, [J Ronald Day], Culver City Ca, rock keyboardist (Sparks)
1951 - Kid Creole, [August Darnell Browder], US singer (Savannah)
1955 - Heintje, [Hendrik Simons], Dutch singer (Mama)
1959 - Suzanne Vega, NYC, rocker (My Name is Luka, Tom's Diner)
1960 - Morty Black, heavy metal rocker (TNT-7 Seas)
1961 - Pete De Freitas, rocker (Echo and the Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
1961 - Roy Hay, British guitarist and keyboardist (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me)
1961 - Lawrence Hayward, English musician (Felt, Denim, Go Kart Mozart)
1963 - Sir Mix A Lot, American rapper
1967 - Tom Holkenborg, drummer (Weekend at Waikiki)
1976 - Mikko Viljami "Linde" Lindström, Finnish guitarist
1976 - Wednesday 13, American musician (Wednesday 13, Murderdolls)
1980 - Jade Villalon, American singer/songwriter
Deaths in Music
1588 - Alfonso Ferrabosco (1), Italian composer, dies at 45
1612 - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (Madrigali), dies at about 60
1633 - Jacopo Peri, Itallian opera composer, dies at 71
1797 - Ignaz Franz Xaver Kurzinger, composer, dies at 73
1812 - Jean Joseph Rodolphe, composer, dies at 81
1830 - Franz de Paula Roser, composer, dies at 50
1918 - Anna Held, Polish-born actress and singer (b. 1872)
1928 - Leos Janacek, Czech composer/conductor (Sly Little Fox), dies at 74
1943 - Georges Martin Witkowski, composer, dies at 76
1982 - Helvi Lemmikke Leiviska, composer, dies at 80
1985 - Marcel Mihalovici, composer, dies at 86
1985 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (plane crash) (b. 1941)
1991 - Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St Justice), dies
1992 - John Cage, avante-garde composer, dies of a stroke at 79
1994 - Gene Cherico, bassist, dies at 59
1997 - Luther Allison, American musician (b. 1939)
2005 - John Loder, co-founder of the anarcho-punk band CRASS (b. 1946)
Todays News
- Floods and landslides associated with Tropical Storm Kammuri (2008) kill 28 people in southwest China and force 11,000 people from their homes. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
- 9:58 GMT: Russia ends Georgia operation: President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev announced that the operation of Russian forces in South Ossetia is completed. He added that 'The agressor has been punished, having sustained considerable losses. Its armed forces have been disorganised'. Medvedev also ordered the Russian Ministry of Defence to consider awarding the peacekeepers and military personnel that have 'showed their best' during the operation. (InterFax), (BBC) However, Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, said that signing a 'legally binding document on the non-use of force' by Georgia is a compulsory condition of starting the talks between the sides of the conflict. (BBC)
- Michael Phelps of the United States wins his third gold medal of the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 200-meter freestyle and sets a new world record and the 200-meter butterfly in qualifications. (New York Times)
News from this Day in History
30 BC - Cleopatra commits suicide after her lover Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium.
1833 - Chicago is founded.
1851 - Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.
1883 - The last quagga (a type of Zebra) dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.
1908 - Ford builds the first Model T.
1960 - Echo I, the first communications satellite, launched.
1981 - The IBM Personal Computer is released.
1990 - Sue, the most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex, is discovered near Faith, South Dakota.
1992 - Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1994 - Major League Baseball players go on strike. The work stoppage forces the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
Holidays and Observances
- United Nations - International Youth Day (since 1999)
- Glorious Twelfth at the Yorkshire Dales
- Thailand - The Queen's Birthday, Mother's Day
- RC Saints
Saint Euplus, deacon, martyr [Cologne, Paderborn, Trier]
Saint Herculanus of Brescia
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