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Today in Music History
1882 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
1965 - Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit)
1966 - Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert
1969 - Frank Zappa disbands the Mothers of Invention following a short tour in Canada.
1974 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``(You're) Having My Baby,'' Paul Anka with Odia Coates. Anka last hit No. 1 with ``Lonely Boy'' in 1959, marking the longest gap between top singles.
1985 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Power of Love,'' Huey Lewis & the News. The million-selling single, which is featured in the hit film ``Back to the Future,'' is the band's first No. 1 song.
1996 - Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg settles out of court with the Woldemariam family in a wrongful death suit which the family brought against the rapper three years earlier. Twenty-year-old Phillip Woldemariam was shot and killed by Snoop Doggy Dogg's bodyguard from the back of a moving car, which the rapper himself drove. The pair claims the shooting occurred in self-defense.
1997 - Alabama Governor Fob James joins the mayors of Montgomery and Georgina, Ala., in the Alabama State Capitol to dedicate a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 65 to the memory of country great Hank Williams. The section of roadway is renamed the "Hank Williams Memorial Lost Highway."
1997 - Patrick O'Hearn files suit against Robert Miles over the latter's song "Children." The suit claims that Miles' song is a rip-off of O'Hearn's 1985 copyright "At First Light." O'Hearn charges that song was plagiarized in 1995 when Miles was a full-time disk jockey in Italy.
2000 - Bon Jovi brings down the curtain on the 28-year career of London's Wembley Stadium as a live music venue. The show is the group's fifth at the 80,000-seat venue.
Births in Music
1930 - Mario Bernardi, Canadian conductor
1942 - Isaac Hayes, Covington TN, singer, songwriter, and actor (d. 2008)
1943 - Robert Plant, English rock vocalist (Led Zeppelin)
1951 - Phil Lynott, Dublin Ireland, rock bassist (Thin Lizzy)
1966 - Dimebag Darrell, heavy metal guitarist (Pantera)
1561 - Jacopo Peri, Italian composer (d. 1633)
1666 - Alphonse d' Eve, composer
1720 - Bernard de Bury, composer
1756 - Bernardo Bittoni, composer
1788 - Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer
1820 - Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer
1873 - William Henry Bell, composer
1881 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Myaskovsky, composer
1888 - George Sklavos, composer
1889 - Witold Friemann, composer
1905 - Jack Teagarden, American musician (d. 1964)
1913 - Conrad Hermann Hubertius Maria Apollinaris Josten, jazz guitarist
1923 - Jim Reeves, American singer (d. 1964)
1935 - Justin Tubb, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1935 - J J Malone, US soul singer (It's a shame)
1935 - Charles Shere, composer
1937 - El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2007)
1940 - John Lantree, rocker
1941 - Dave Brock, British musician and founder of Hawkwind
1944 - John Povey, rocker
1946 - Ralf Hütter, German musician (Kraftwerk)
1947 - James Pankow, Chicago IL, rocker (Chicago)
1949 - Nikolas Asimos, Greek composer and singer (d. 1988)
1952 - Rudy Gatlin, Olney Tx, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady)
1952 - Doug Fieger, American musician (The Knack)
1952 - John Hiatt, American musician
1955 - Rob Wiedijk, Dutch rock vocalist (Bob Color)
1955 - Agnes Chan, Hong Kong singer and writer
1956 - Rick Olsen, rock guitarist (Berlin-Take My Breath Away)
1957 - Doug Fleger, rocker
1961 - Rick Rael, heavy metal rocker
1965 - KRS-One, American rapper
1970 - Fred Durst, American singer (Limp Bizkit)
1971 - Brad Avery, American musician (guitarist for Third Day)
1974 - Big Moe, American rapper (d. 2007)
1974 - Andy Strachan, Australian musician (The Living End)
1974 - Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist
Deaths in Music
1611 - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spanish composer (b. 1548)
1707 - Nicolas Gigault, French organist and composer (b. 1627)
1799 - Johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, composer, dies at 37
1813 - Jan Krtitel Vanhal, composer, dies at 74
1825 - Richard Wainwright, composer, dies at 68
1856 - Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer, dies at 80
1908 - Louis Varney, composer, dies at 64
1910 - Arthur Coquard, composer, dies at 64
1931 - Waldemar von Baussnern, composer, dies at 64
1932 - Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87
1932 - Tadeusz Joteyko, composer, dies at 60
1935 - Otakar Ostrcil, composer, dies at 56
1948 - David John de Lloyd, composer, dies at 65
1960 - Rudolf Moser, composer, dies at 68
1978 - Ivan Jirko, composer, dies at 51
1978 - Petros John Petridis, composer, dies at 86
1980 - Joe Dassin, American singer (b. 1938)
1986 - Thad Jones, jazz trumpeter, dies of cancer at 63
1991 - Betty Bowden, British dancer/actress (Vote for Nigel), dies at 86
1995 - John E Gilmore, tenor Saxophonist, dies at 63
1995 - Paul Foster, singer, dies at 75
1996 - Rio Reiser, rock singer, dies at 46
1998 - Raquel Rastenni, Danish singer (b. 1915)
2005 - Krzysztof Raczkowski, Polish drummer (b. 1970)
2006 - Claude Blanchard, French-Canadian singer, comedian and actor (b. 1932)
News from this Day in History
1000 - The foundation of the Hungarian state, Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
1858 - Charles Darwin first published his theory of evolution in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
1920 - The first commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
1926 - Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
1938 - Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam - a record that still stands.
1993 - After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords were signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the next month.
1998 - The Supreme Court of Canada states Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
2008 - Usain Bolt set the current 200m sprint world record of 19.30 seconds at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Holidays and Observances
- World Union - World Union Day.
- Roman Catholic saints - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
- Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Asmá (Names) - First day of the ninth month of the Bahá'í calendar.
- Hungary - St. Stephen's day, the main national holiday in Hungary.
- Estonia - Day of Restoration of Independence, celebrating the secession from the Soviet Union in 1991.
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