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Today in Music History
1960 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``It's Now or Never,'' Elvis Presley. The song sells more than 20 million copes worldwide, making it Presley's biggest-selling single.
1965 - Jefferson Airplane makes its performance debut at the Matrix Club in San Francisco.
1979 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Good Times,'' by Chic. The song was written by band members Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, who between them have written No. 1 songs for Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, David Bowie, Duran Duran and Madonna.
1990 - Rhythm and blues singer Curtis Mayfield is paralyzed from the waist down after being struck by a lighting rig before an outdoor concert in Brooklyn, N.Y.
1995 - Four days after Jerry Garcia's death, the largest of many memorials draws 20,000 fans to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
1999 - Scott Weiland, lead singer of the Stone Temple Pilots, is sent to jail for again violating his probation by continuing his illegal drug use. He had been receiving outpatient treatment for drug addiction but in July he is treated at the Daniel Freeman Hospital in Marina del Rey for an overdose on heroin.
2000 - As Andy Griggs waits to open a show for Reba McEntire at the Milwaukee State Fair, he gets quite a surprise. A local radio DJ asks the crowd to serenade Griggs in observance of his 27th birthday. The entire audience sings, Griggs gets cakes, balloons and gifts, and his band and crew bombard him with Silly String.
Births in Music
1920 - Sir George Shearing, London, blind jazz pianist/composer (Lullabye of Byrdland)
1951 - Dan Fogelberg, Peoria Ill, musician, singer, songwriter (Same Auld Lang Syne)
1655 - Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet)
1692 - Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, composer
1704 - Lorenzo Fago, composer
1717 - Christoph Nichelsmann, German composer
1721 - Francis Ireland, composer
1747 - Adrien-Joseph van Helmont, composer
1817 - Karoly Thern, composer
1826 - William Thomas Best, composer
1831 - Salomon Jaoassohn, composer
1851 - John Lincoln Clem, Drummer (Union volunteers), died in 1937
1878 - Leonid Vladimirovich Nikolayev, composer
1879 - John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Mai-Dun)
1894 - Leonid Alexeyevich Polovinkin, composer
1901 - Ian Whyte, composer
1913 - Anatoly Vasilyevich Bogatiryov, composer
1913 - Francisco Escudero, composer
1914 - Luis Mariano, Basque operetta singer (d. 1970)
1920 - Charlie Alfred Galbraith, jazz trombonist
1925 - Benny Bailey, jazz trumpeter
1929 - Augustyn Bloch, composer
1930 - Heino Jurisalu, composer
1930 - Don Ho, American musician (d. 2007)
1934 - Leifur Thorarinsson, composer
1938 - Dave "Baby" Cortez, American pop keyboardist
1942 - Sheila Armstrong, soprano
1944 - David Mahler, composer
1948 - Tony Santini, rocker (Sha Na Na)
1948 - Kathleen Battle, Portsmouth Ohio, soprano (Shephard-Tannh„user)
1949 - Sheralee, Ft Lauderdale Fla, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
1953 - Jimmy McCulloch, rocker (Wings)
1954 - Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass player (d. 2001)
1958 - Feargal Sharkey, rocker (Undertones-Never Never, Good Heart)
1959 - Mark Nevin, rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
1960 - Koji Kondo, Japanese composer
1961 - Stuart Maconie, English music writer and broadcaster
1963 - Tigg Ketler, Chula Vista Ca, drummer (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
1964 - Ian Haughland, heavy metal rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown)
1965 - Hayato Matsuo, Japanese composer
1984 - Baby Blue, American rapper (Pretty Ricky)
Deaths in Music
1755 - Francesco Durante, Italian composer (b. 1684)
1808 - Henri Hardouin, composer, dies at 81
1841 - Bernhard Heinrich Romberg, German cellist/composer, dies at 73
1886 - Adolf von Doss, composer, dies at 62
1908 - Ira D Sankey, US evangelist/composer/singer (Gospel Hymns), dies at 67
1912 - Jules EF Massenet, French opera composer (Werther, Manon), dies at 70
1916 - Fritz Steinbach, composer, dies at 61
1924 - Julian Aguirre, composer, dies at 56
1928 - Fernand de La Tombelle, composer, dies at 74
1933 - Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher, composer, dies at 80
1946 - Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky, composer, dies at 33
1947 - Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist
1953 - Dmitri Arakishvili, composer, dies at 80
1954 - Hermann W S Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer, dies at 71
1970 - Viktor Nikolayevich Trambitsky, composer, dies at 75
1971 - King Curtis, [Curtis Ousley], US musician, murdered at 37
1982 - Joe Tex, [Joseph Arrington Jr], American singer-songwriter (b. 1933) (Getting Scarce), dies at 49
1987 - Vincent Persichetti, US composer (Sibyl), dies at 72
1995 - Jesse Thomas, blues singer, dies at 84
1996 - David Tudor, American pianist and composer, dies at 70
1998 - Nino Ferrer, French-Italian singer and composer (b. 1934)
2000 - Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer (b. 1965)
2003 - Ed Townsend, American songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
Todays News
- American swimmer Michael Phelps breaks the record for most Olympic gold medals won by an individual athlete at the Beijing Olympics. (ESPN)
- The investigation of what Russian officials called a 'genocide' started in South Ossetia. Some witnesses say that a church with civilians inside was burned by the Georgian army in the captured Ossetian village in the first day of Georgian attack. (Mail On Sunday).
- Saakashvili, in his turn, accused Russia of carpet bombing Tskhinvali, South Ossetia's capital, and and invading Gori. However journalists in Gori report no Russian tanks seen on the streets. Anatoly Nagovitsyn, the Russian military's deputy chief of staff, categorically denied that there were any tanks on the streets of Gori, saying Russian forces were at an abandoned Georgian artillery base near Gori, dismantling it, but not inside the town. (BBC) (CNN).
- CNN Cameraman in the region says that the company actually took the cadres he shot in Tskhinvali leveled by Georgian army and used them in a report about alleged Russian attack on Georgian city of Gori (RT via YouTube)
- Sky's Jason Farrell claims he has witnessed Russian armour moving at the outskirts of the Georgian town of Gori (Sky News).
- British television's Sky Team robbed near Georgian town of Gori by a man that 'did not seem to be Russian'. The journalist Andrew Wilson claims 'he could not be sure the men who had pulled their car over were South Ossetian' either. (Sky News)
- The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announces a national day of mourning in Russia in connection with the Battle of Tskhinvali and the death of a large number of Russian citizens there. Georgian Orthodox Church Patriarch Ilia II announced the national day of mourning for soldiers and civilians who died during the recent days of Georgian–Ossetian conflict. (ITARTass), (24.UA), (AOL news [India), (Newsgeorgia via NitaPress)
- Unnamed 'senior U.S. NATO official' said that USA may withdraw from a major NATO naval exercise with Russia that is to begin on Friday. (FoxNews)
News from this Day in History
3114 BC - According to the Lounsbury correlation, the start of the Maya calendar.
1326 - Aradia de Toscano, according to legend/folklore, is initiated into a Dianic witchcraft cult and subsequently founds the tradition of Stregheria, later known as the Malandanti.
1521 - Tenochtitlán (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernán Cortés.
1913 - Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
1918 - Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
1918 - Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
1954 - Radio Pakistan broadcasts the National Anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
Holidays and Observances
- Roman festivals - Vertumnalia in honor of Vertumnus and Diana, on the Aventine hill.
- International Lefthanders Day.
- Laos - Lao Issara, Day of the Free Laos.
- In Brazil, Friday 13 August (agosto) is considered to be especially filled with sorrow (desgosto).
- RC saints
- Saint Cassian (Cassianus of Imola), bishop of Brescia, martyr [Brixen, Magdeburg, Ratzeburg, Regensburg, Trent], patron saint of shorthand-writers, and of Mexico City
- Saints Pontianus, pope, and Hippolytus, priest, martyrs
- Hippolytus and companions, martyrs [common]
- Saint John Berchmans
- Saint John Bosco
- Saint Wigbert, prior, confessor [Mainz]
- Saint Clare of Assisi [Paris]
- Saint Radegunde, Radegundis, help against the pox, virgin (sometimes also queen) [France; Paris]
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