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Today in Music History
1957 - American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
1964 - Beatles record "Leave My Kitten Alone"
1966 - Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" and "Eleanor Rigby" in UK
1966 - Beatles release "Revolver" album
1966 - Beatle John Lennon says Beatles are more popular than Jesus
1974 - Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways
1994 - Rocker Billy Idol admitted to the hospital after drug overdose
Births in Music
1942 - Rick Huxley, guitarist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
1947 - Rick Derringer, American musician/guitarist
1968 - Terri Clark, Canadian country singer
1397? - Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish composer and theorist (d. 1474)
1607 - Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer
1623 - Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (d. 1669)
1694 - Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, Italian composer (d. 1744)
1797 - Friedrich August Kummer, composer
1811 - C L Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (d. 1896)
1822 - Johann Georg Herzog, composer
1828 - Giovanni Rossi, composer
1829 - Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl, composer
1843 - James Scott Skinner, composer
1850 - Anton Simon, composer
1864 - Resurreccion Maria de Azkue, composer
1866 - Alfred Holy, composer
1868 - Oskar Merikanto, composer
1886 - Oscar Espla, composer
1890 - Hans Gal, composer
1890 - Erich Kleiber, Austrian-born conductor (d. 1956)
1900 - Bodi Rapp, [Johanna PAC Goetmakers], Dutch mezzo-soprano/teacher
1901 - Juan Carlos Paz, composer
1907 - Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, jazz vocalist/trumpeter
1910 - Bruno Coquatrix, French songwriter and music impresario (d. 1979)
1914 - Stjepan Sulek, Croatian violinist/composer (Coriolan)
1926 - Betsy Jolas, composer
1927 - Gunnar Bucht, composer
1932 - Tera de Marez Oyens, composer
1934 - Vern Gosdin, Woodland Al, country singer (Set 'em Up Joe)
1943 - Sammi Smith, American country singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
1946 - Rick van der Linden, Dutch keyboardist (Ekseption)
1947 - Greg Leskiw, rocker
1953 - Samantha Sang, Australian singer (Emotion)
1956 - Ferdi Bolland, Dutch singer/guitarist (Bolland and Bolland)
1959 - Pete Burns, English singer (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
1960 - Seth Swirsky, American songwriter
1960 - Calvin Hayes, rocker
1960 - Mike Nocito, rocker (Johnny Hates Jazz-Turn Back the Clock)
1961 - Mark O'Connor, American violinist
1964 - Adam Yauch (MCA), American musician (Beastie Boys)
1965 - Motoi Sakuraba, Japanese composer
1968 - Funkmaster Flex, American hip hop DJ
1971 - Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American musician (The Bloodhound Gang)
1972 - Christian Olde Wolbers, Belgian musician (Fear Factory)
1975 - Eicca Toppinen, Finnish cellist (Apocalyptica)
1978 - Nektaria Karantzi, Greek singer
1981 - Kō Shibasaki, Japanese singer
1982 - Tobias Regner, German singer
1983 - Dawn Richard, American singer (Danity Kane)
1995 - Devo Keenan, American cellist and son of musician Maynard James Keenan
2000 - Maya Bond, American singer and musician
Deaths in Music
1678 - Juan García de Zéspedes, Mexican musician and composer (b. 1619)
1778 - Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 22
1830 - Karl Friedrich Horn, composer, dies at 68
1856 - Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer, dies at 61
1863 - Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer, dies at 53
1891 - Henry Charles Litolff, French pianist/componist, dies at 73
1907 - Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer, dies at 66
1910 - Wojciech Gawronski, composer, dies at 42
1916 - Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer, dies at 46
1916 - George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer, dies at 31
1955 - Carmen Miranda, Portuguese actress and singer (b. 1909)
1958 - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80
1963 - Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (b. 1898)
1971 - Josef Stanislav, composer, dies at 74
1983 - Judy Canova, singer/comedienne (Chatterbox), dies of cancer at 66
1987 - Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer, dies at 79
1992 - Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38
Today in the News
- U.S. President George W. Bush, on his way to Beijing to attend the Olympics, stops in South Korea and Thailand. (FOX News)
- A 6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Sichuan, China, according to the US Geological Survey. (RTÉ News)
- U.S. conservative political commentator Robert Novak retires after 45 years. The reason for retirement was a previously discovered brain tumour. Novak is also involved in the CIA leak scandal. (CBS News)
- Eleven climbers from an international expedition are reported dead after ice fall took out the fixed ropes on part of the route on K2 mountain in the Himalayas. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- A police post near Kashgar in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China is attacked, leaving 16 officers dead and 16 others injured. (BBC News)
- 162 people die in a stampede at a Hindu temple in Naina Devi in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. (AFP via Google News)
- North Korea says that it will expel "unnecessary" South Korean staff from the Kumgangsan resort and threatens military action in an escalation of tension over the shooting of a South Korean tourist. (Reuters)
- The third launch of privately developed SpaceX launcher Falcon 1 fails to reach orbit. (Spaceflightnow.com)
- Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority launches an investigation into safety at Qantas after three emergencies in two weeks, beginning with the explosion aboard Qantas Flight 30. (ABC News)
- At least 21 street cleaners are killed by a roadside bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia. (CNN)
- 12 people are killed when a minibus explodes in Baghdad, Iraq. (CNN)
News from this Day in History
1100 - Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
1305 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.
1583 - Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland.
1620 - The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America.
1884 - The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
1901 - Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11¾ins. The record will stand for 20 years.
1912 - Japan's first taxicab service begins in Ginza, Tokyo.
1914 - In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1962 - Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
Holidays and Observances
- Burkina Faso - Independence Day.
- Croatia - Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day.
- Chile - Children's Day
- Abel of Reims (died 750)
- Addai
- Saint Afra, martyr [Augsburg (rare)]
- Saint Afra and companions, virgins, martyrs [France]
- Saint Dominic, confessor [medieval date, in Paris; nowadays August 4]
- Saint Emygdius, martyr, bishop of Ascoli Piceno
- Feast of Mary "ad nives"; Dedication of Santa Maria Maggiore bin Rome [common]
- Saint Ormisdas, pope, confessor [Bamberg]
- Saint Oswald of Northumbria, king, martyr [common; England] (died 642)
- Saint Sixtus II, pope [Paris]
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