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Today in Music History
1958 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Little Star,'' the Elegants. It is the group's only song to hit the Hot 100.
1962 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Sheila,'' Tommy Roe. When the song hits No. 3 in England, Roe tours there with the Beatles as a backup group.
1967 - Beatles, Mick Jagger and Marienne Faithful meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1970 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``War,'' Edwin Starr. The song earns Starr a Grammy as Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.
1978 - The first Canada Jam Festival in Ontario includes sets by the Doobie Brothers, the Commodores, Kansas, Dave Mason and the Atlanta Rhythm Section.
1980 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Sailing,'' Christopher Cross. The single wins Grammy Awards as record and song of the year. Cross also wins Grammys for best new artist, best arrangement accompanying vocalist and best album - ``Christopher Cross.''
1980 - Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of Cheap Trick
1995 - Ronnie White of the Miracles dies at age 57 of leukemia. White wrote the Temptations' hit ``My Girl'' with Smokey Robinson. The Miracles racked up 29 top 40 songs including ``Love Machine'' between 1960 and 1977 and gave the Motown record label its first million-seller with the 1961 hit ``Shop Around.''
1996 - The cast of the Tony award winning Broadway musical "Rent" perform the song "Seasons of Love" on opening night of the Democratic National Convention.
1997 - Boyzone begin a tour of Southeast Asia in Bangalore, India. It is a first-time tour launch for the region by an international act.
1997 - "My Soul," Coolio's follow-up to 1995's multi-platinum "Gangsta's Paradise," is released on Tommy Boy.
2000 - The Backstreet Boys' online alter egos, the Cyber Crusaders, debut online with a party at Hard Rock Live in Orlando, Fla. Pioneering Marvel Comics artist Stan Lee's Stan Lee Media designed 22 online cartoons featuring the Backstreet Boys' likenesses, which can be viewed at the Backstreet Project Web site.
2000 - Pam Tillis joins the Grand Ole Opry. The former Country Music Association female vocalist of the year is inducted by Marty Stuart during the TNN-televised portion of the show.
2000 - Gov't Mule bassist and former Allman Brothers Band member Douglas Allen Woody is found dead in a motel in the New York borough of Queens. He is 44.
2005 - Voivod guitarist Denis D'Amour, better known to fans as Piggy, dies at a Montreal hospital after a battle with colon cancer. He is 45.
2005 - Lil' Jon is the big winner at the 2005 BMI Urban Awards, held at the Grand Ballroom of the Fontainebleau Resort in Miami Beach.
Births in Music
1928 - Peter Appleyard, Canadian jazz vibraphonist
1946 - Chantal Renaud, Quebec singer and actress
1960 - Nancy Martinez, Canadian-born singer
1627 - Thomas Bullis, composer
1687 - Willem the Fesch, Dutch violinist/composer (Joseph)
1726 - Karl Kohaut, composer
1745 - Francois Guichard, composer
1749 - Johann Ernst Rembt, composer
1788 - Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist
1823 - Wilhelm Troszel, composer
1828 - Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer
1843 - George August Lumbye, composer
1887 - Luis Abraham Delgadillo, composer
1896 - Richard Hammond, composer
1903 - Jimmy Rushing, US blues singer
1911 - Lester Lanin, orchestra leader (40 Beatle Hits)
1915 - Gre [Gerarda D] Brouwenstijn, Dutch singer
1915 - William Bardwell, composer
1918 - Louis W "Louis" Stotijn, bassoonist/conductor (Residence Orchestra)
1922 - Lazar Nikolov, composer
1923 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist
1931 - Dane Skerl, composer
1938 - Maurice Williams, rocker
1940 - Fred Milano, rocker
1941 - Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (The Searchers) (d. 2005)
1942 - Vic Dana, Buffalo, New York, singer/dancer (Talent Scouts)
1944 - Maureen Tucker, American musician (The Velvet Underground)
1946 - Mark Snow, American composer
1948 - Jet Black, rocker (Stranglers-Dreamtime)
1948 - Valerie Simpson, Bronx, singer, Ashford's partner (Like a Rock)
1950 - Richard Cowsill, Newport RI, rocker (Cowsills-Hair, We Can Fly)
1952 - Willie Rush, rocker (Asbury Jukes)
1954 - Michael Chetwood, rocker
1954 - Wally Murphy, rocker
1957 - Dr. Alban, Nigerian-Swedish singer
1960 - Branford Marsalis, jazz saxophonist and bandleader
1961 - Jimmy Olander, Palos Verdes Cal, singer (Diamond Rio)
1966 - Shirley Manson, Scottish singer
1971 - Thalía, Mexican singer
1976 - Amaia Montero, Spanish singer (La Oreja de Van Gogh)
1976 - Zemfira, Russian singer
1978 - Raja Kashif, Pakistani singer
1982 - David Long, rotten scoundrel, diabolical hater extraordinaire, legendary reveler, musician, composer
1986 - Cassie Ventura, American singer
1990 - Lil' Chris, British singer
Deaths in Music
1661 - Louis Couperin, composer
1683 - Christoph Schultze, composer, dies at 76
1712 - Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer, dies at 80
1813 - Daniel Gottlob Turk, composer, dies at 63
1832 - Henryk Klein, composer, dies at 96
1849 - Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer, dies at 66
1860 - Friedrich Silcher, composer, dies at 71
1860 - Philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer, dies at 71
1873 - Carl Wilhelm, composer, dies at 57
1948 - Oscar L Fern ndez, Brazilian conductor/composer (Imbapara), dies at 50
1958 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer, dies at 85
1960 - Mark Hambourg, composer, dies at 81
1967 - Andres Sas, composer, dies at 67
1971 - Francesco Santoliquido, composer, dies at 88
1976 - Lotte (Krause-)Lehmann, German soprano (More than singing), dies at 88
1977 - Heinz Rottger, composer, dies at 67
1978 - Charles Trowbridge Haubiel, composer, dies at 86
1981 - Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (b. 1914)
1988 - Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer (b. 1957)
1993 - Rockin Dopsie Sr, Jazz-Fusion singer (Zydeco), dies at 61
1995 - Ronald Anthony White Jr, singer, dies at 57
2004 - Laura Branigan, American singer (b. 1957)
2005 - Denis D'Amour, Canadian guitarist (Voivod) (b. 1960)
Todays News
- Canadian authorities report 12 people have died in the listeriosis outbreak traced to a Maple Leaf Foods plant in Toronto. (Montreal Gazette)
- The 2008 National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party begins in Denver, Colorado. (BBC News)
- Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim wins a landslide victory in the by-election in Permatang Pauh. (AP via Yahoo News)
- OSCE chairman-in-office, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb accuses Russia of ethnic cleansing in Georgia (Rustavi 2).
- President George W. Bush says Russia's president should not recognize two breakaway regions of Georgia as independent countries, despite pleas from Russian lawmakers (Rustavi 2).
- Russia recognises the indepedence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.(New York Times) (Earth Times)
- Swedish foreign secretary Carl Bildt condemns Russia's "deliberate violation of international law", saying that "the Russian government leadership now has chosen this route means they have chosen a policy of confrontation, not only with the rest of Europe, but also with the international community in general".(Warsaw Business Journal) (The Local)
- Tropical Storm Gustav becomes Hurricane Gustav as it approaches Haiti. (Reuters)
- Koshi River breaks embankment to pick up the course abandoned over 200 years ago causing floods in Bihar and killing 42 people. (CNN-IBN)
News from this Day in History
1498 - Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1748 - The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1768 - The HM Bark Endeavour expedition under Captain James Cook sets sail from England.
1778 - The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
1789 - Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen approved by Constituent Assembly at Palace of Versailles.
1858 - First news dispatch by telegraph.
1920 - The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
1939 - The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York.
1977 - The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec.
1978 - Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut on board of the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
1999 - Michael Johnson breaks the 400 metres world record with a time of 43.18 seconds.
2002 - Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Holidays and Observances
- Namibia - Heroes' Day (Namibia)
- Philippines - National Heroes' Day.
- Adrian of Nicomedia
- Saint Alexander of Bergamo
- Saint David Lewis
- Saint Ninian
- Simplicius, Constantius and Victorinus
- Saint Zephyrinus
- Transverberation of Saint Teresa of Ávila
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