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Today in Music History
1963 - Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds and given a 1 yr suspended license for speeding
1967 - The Beatles go to Wales to study transcendental meditation with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
1970 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer give their debut performance in Plymouth, England.
1970 - Elton John makes his U.S. debut at the Troubador in Los Angeles.
1973 - Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks breaks a leg in a car crash in Macon, Ga.
1973 - Guitarist Henry McCullough quits Wings
1993 - 22-year-old Philip Woldemariam is shot in Los Angeles and rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg is charged with first-degree murder as an accomplice. Dogg's bodyguard, McKinley Lee, is charged with first-degree murder. Lee and Dogg say the shooting was in self-defense after Woldemariam pulled a gun on the performer.
1995 - Dwayne Goettel of the industrial rock group Skinny Puppy is found dead of an apparent heroin overdose at his parents' home in Canada.
1997 - Mindy McCready, Kenny Chesney, Jason Sellers, Ray Vega, Sara Evans, Ricochet's Heath Wright, Skip Ewing and Kippi Brannon join catalyst Randy Owen for a special "We Are the World"-style recording session aimed at helping the children of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The group records the song "Make a Miracle."
1998 - A historic concert at the Miami Beach Convention Center is interrupted by a bomb threat during the opening performance by 90-year-old singer and Buena Vista Social Club member Compay Segundo. More than two dozen Cuban musicians are granted visas to perform Stateside at the show.
2001 - R&B singer and actress Aaliyah dies when a small plane that was to carry her and eight others back to the United States crashes after takeoff in Marsh Harbour, Bahamas.
2006 - Record executive Lou Wills, who helped Warner Bros. build a powerful lineup of acts, including Larry Graham, Al Jarreau, Chaka Khan, George Benson, Richard Pryor, Dionne Warwick, Parliament Funkadelic, Prince, and the Time, dies.
Births in Music
1909 - Ruby Keeler, Halifax NS, Singer, actress and dancer (d. 1993) (Dames, 42nd Street)
1918 - Leonard Bernstein, Lawrence MA, conductor/composer (West Side Story)
1933 - Wayne Shorter, American jazz musician (Weather Report)
1949 - Gene Simmons, [Chaim Witz], Haifa Israel, rock bassist (KISS)
1949 - Fariborz Lachini, Canadian-Iranian composer
1954 - Elvis Costello, [Declan Patrick McManus], London, musician,singer,songwriter (Allison)
1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, Flatwoods Ky, country singer (Achy Breaky Heart)
1718 - Johann Jacob Rowalt, composer
1758 - Franz Teyber, composer
1880 - Robert E Stolz, Austrian composer/conductor (...smaller guard)
1887 - Olav Fartein Valen, Norwegian composer
1891 - Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, composer
1891 - Samuel Gardner, composer
1897 - Jaroslav Ridky, composer
1902 - Stefan Wolpe, Berlin Germany, composer (Zeus and Elidco)
1905 - Undine Smith Moore, composer
1909 - Arwel Hughes, composer
1911 - Jacopo Napoli, composer
1914 - Alexei Haieff, Blagovestchensk Siberia, composer (Princess Zondilda)
1915 - Walter Trampler, American violist (d. 1997)
1928 - Karl Korte, composer
1940 - José Van Dam, Belgian baritone
1942 - Walter Williams, US, vocalist (O'Jays-Use to Be My Girl)
1950 - Willy Deville, NYC, rock vocalist/guitarist (Mink Deville)
1950 - Charles Fambrough, American jazz musician
1951 - Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest)
1952 - Geoff Downes, English keyboardist (Buggles, Yes, Asia)
1954 - Martin Jourard, keyboardist/vocalist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1956 - Matt Aitken, rocker (Stock Aitken and Waterman-Road Block)
1958 - Saskia van Orly, Dutch singer (Tambourine)
1962 - Mazzi Rawd, heavy metal rocker
1962 - Vivian Campbell, Ireland, heavy metal rocker (White Snake-Here I Go Again)
1965 - Mia Zapata, American singer (The Gits) (d. 1993)
1966 - Derek Sherinian, American keyboardist
1967 - Jeff Tweedy, American singer (Wilco)
1968 - Rafet El Roman, Turkish singer and composer
1968 - Stuart Murdoch, Scottish musician (Belle & Sebastian)
1968 - Takeshi Ueda, Japanese singer and composer
1968 - Spider One, American musician (Powerman 5000)
1970 - Jo Dee Messina, American country music singer
1971 - Thalia Sodi, Mexican actress and singer
1973 - Olavi Mikkonen, Swedish heavy metal guitarist (Amon Amarth)
1983 - James Righton, Musician (Klaxons)
1987 - Liu Yifei, Chinese actress and singer
1988 - Raymond Quinn, English singer
1992 - Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer
Deaths in Music
1742 - Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas, Portuguese composer, dies at 38
1773 - Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer, dies at 29
1774 - Nicolo Jommelli, Italian composer, dies at 59
1791 - Pietro Domenico Paradisi, composer
1842 - Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, composer, dies at 80
1930 - Siegfried Wagner, composer, dies at 61
1942 - Panayot Pipkov, composer, dies at 70
1971 - Ted Lewis, [Theodore L Friedman], bandleader, dies at 80
1972 - Robert Denzler, composer, dies at 80
1972 - Juan Carlos Paz, composer, dies at 71
1979 - Stan Kenton, orch leader (Music 55), dies at 67
1989 - Gunnar Johnsen Berg, composer, dies at 80
1992 - Alma Graciela Haro Esmerelda, singer, dies of diabetes at 65
1995 - R B Hudmon, RandB/Soul Singer, dies at 41
1996 - Sylvia Fisher, opera Singer, dies at 86
1999 - Rob Fisher, English musician (b. 1956)
2001 - Aaliyah, American singer and actress (b. 1979)
2001 - Philippe Léotard, French actor and singer (b. 1940)
Today in the News
- Russia is considering arming its Baltic fleet with nuclear warheads for the first time since the Cold War (Alfa).
- Israel releases 199 Palestinean prisoners as a goodwill gesture to the President of the Palestinian National Authority Mahmoud Abbas as the United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits the area. (AFP via Google News)
- Russia's upper house of parliament has urged the president to recognise the independence of Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia (BBC), (CNN), (VZ).
- Traffic gradually began to trickle along Georgia's main east-west highway over the weekend, after the departure of Russian troops who had been barring traffic on the road and, effectively, cutting the country in half (The Moscow Times).
- France called a summit of European Union leaders for next week to discuss the conflict in Georgia (The Wall Street Journal).
- There are evidences of Russian army looting in Poti, Georgia (Times).
- The House of Assembly of Zimbabwe elects Lovemore Moyo as its first opposition Speaker since independence in 1980. (BBC)
News from this Day in History
1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1768 - James Cook begins his first voyage.
1835 - The New York Sun perpetrates the Great Moon Hoax.
1910 - Yellow Cab is founded.
1916 - The United States National Park Service is created.
1981 - Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.
1989 - Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System.
1991 - Linux was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project to create a new operating system.
2003 - The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).
Holidays and Observances
- Roman festivals - Opiconsivia held in honor of Ops.
- Roman Catholic Saints - Genesius of Arles, Saint Louis IX of France, Saint Joseph Calasanz.
- Uruguay - National Day (independence from Brazil in 1825).
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