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Today in Music History
1964 - Rod Stewart makes his television debut on the British show ``The Beat Room.''
1965 - Beatles release "Help" album in UK
1970 - An anti-war rock festival is held at Shea Stadium, New York, with Janis Joplin, Paul Simon, Steppenwolf, and Johnny Winter.
1973 - Stevie Wonder is seriously injured in a car accident near Winston-Salem, N.C. He remains in a coma for four days.
1973 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``The Morning After,'' Maureen McGovern. The song is the theme to the film ``The Poseidon Adventure.''
1984 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Ghostbusters,'' by Ray Parker Jr. - Huey Lewis sues Parker, saying the Academy Award-nominated song sounds too much like his ``I Want a New Drug.''
1995 - R&B singer Brandy receives four trophies at the first Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards. TLC took group honors for single and solo of the year.
1996 - Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder videotapes the Ramones placing their hands in cement on the Hollywood Rock Walk prior to a Ramones show at The Palace. The Ramones claim this is their last show ever.
1996 - Vince Neil, former singer of '80's metal band Motley Crue, attempts to play a show at an Indiana club. The show, starting more than four hours late, ends after only three songs. Neil claims that he isn't feeling well, and that the audience of "rednecks" don't appreciate his talent. No refunds are offered, and police, called to the scene shortly thereafter, barely stave off a riot of over 500 irate ticket-holders.
1998 - Ted Nugent, the singer/songwriter, guitarist, politician, self-proclaimed "outdoorsman," and morning talk-show host embarks on a 15-city U.S. jaunt in Los Angeles. Bassist Johnny G. and drummer Tommy Aldridge accompany Nugent on the tour.
2002 - Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher suffers from whiplash and shock after he is injured in a car accident in Indianapolis. The band is forced to postpone upcoming concerts in Philadelphia and Boston.
2004 - Funk legend Rick James is found dead at 9:45 a.m. PT at his Los Angeles home by a caretaker. He is 56.
2005 - Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer, one of the stars of the 1990s Buena Vista Social Club CD series, dies in Havana at the age of 78. The artist had returned three days earlier from a one-month tour of Europe, and a week before dying he appeared in pain singing at a festival in Barcelona.
Births in Music
1906 - Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (d. 1984)
1946 - Allan Holdsworth, British musician
1952 - Vinnie Vincent, American musician (Kiss)
1958 - Randy DeBarge, Grand Rapids Mich, rock vocalist/bassist (Debarge)
1619 - Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer (d. 1677)
1651 - Johann Michael Zacher, composer
1664 - Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer
1665 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer
1748 - Bernhard Haltenberger, composer
1858 - Albert Fuchs, composer
1873 - Mary Carr Moore, composer
1873 - John Wesley Work, composer
1875 - Marcel Labey, composer
1883 - Francesco Santoliquido, composer
1886 - Edward Ballantine, composer
1888 - Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (d. 1952)
1896 - Cyril Mockridge, composer
1902 - Michal Vilec, composer
1908 - Svend Erik Tarp, composer
1908 - George Singer, composer
1910 - Friedrich Schroder, composer
1923 - Jack Parnell, London England, orch leader (Engelbert Humperdinck Show)
1925 - Leland Smith, composer
1929 - Mike Elliot, rocker
1930 - Abbey Lincoln, American jazz singer
1937 - Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist (d. 2000)
1939 - William "Sonny" Sanders, US singer (Rayber Voices)
1941 - Doris Ernestine Hays, composer
1952 - Ton Scherpenzeel, Dutch rock keyboardist (Earth and Fire)
1952 - Barrel Scherpenzeel, rocker (Earth and Fire)
1953 - Pat MacDonald, rocker (Timbuk 3)
1958 - Simon Francken, Dutch bassist (Ivy Green)
1959 - Joyce Sims, rocker (All and All)
1965 - Yuki Kajiura, Japanese composer
1969 - Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
1972 - Geri Estelle Halliwell, "Ginger Spice" singer (Spice Girls)
1980 - Wilber Pan, American/Taiwanese singer
Deaths in Music
1548 - Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher
1686 - Paul Hainlein, composer, dies at 60
1775 - Heinrich Nikolaus Gerber, composer, dies at 72
1784 - Karl Kohaut, composer, dies at 57
1799 - Joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74
1816 - Karl Frieberth, composer, dies at 80
1820 - Antonin Vranicky, composer, dies at 59
1821 - Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer, dies at 64
1848 - Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer, dies at 58
1853 - Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer, dies at 57
1862 - Francisco Acuna de Figueroa, Uruguay national anthem, dies at 71
1866 - John Mason Neale, English divine, scholar and hymnwriter (b. 1818)
1895 - George Frederick Root, composer, dies at 74
1924 - John Henry Roberts, composer, dies at 76
1928 - William Henry Grattan Flood, composer, dies at 68
1931 - Bix Beiderbecke, American jazz cornetist, composer, and a skilled classical and jazz pianist. (b. 1903)
1935 - Alexander Gustav Adolfovich Winkler, composer, dies at 70
1965 - Peter Ronnefeld, composer, dies at 30
1970 - Ingolf Dahl, German composer (Andante and Arioso), dies at 58
1973 - Memphis Minnie, American blues singer (b. 1897)
1974 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
1976 - Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist, dies at 73
1983 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (b. 1944)
1994 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (Volare) (b. 1928)
2004 - Rick James, American musician, songwriter (b. 1948)
2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (b. 1927)
2005 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (b. 1928)
2007 - Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (Bikini, Omen, Carpathia Project Tirana Rockers, solo) (b. 1969)
Today in the News
- A coup d'état occurs in Mauritania with the Army seizing the President of Mauritania Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the Prime Minister of Mauritania Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef and the Interior Minister. (ABC News Australia)
- Competitions start at the Beijing Olympic Games two days ahead of the Opening Ceremony with the Women's football tournament.(CNN)
- Rwanda formally accuses senior French officials, including former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and late President François Mitterrand, of involvement in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and calls for them to be put on trial. (Reuters)
News from this Day in History
1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1909 - Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
1923 - Henry Sullivan swims the English Channel.
1926 - Gertrude Ederle becomes first woman to swim across the English Channel.
1926 - In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1926 - Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1958 - Australian runner Herb Elliot breaks the world record for the mile at the Morton Stadium in Dublin, with a time of 3:54.5.
1962 - Jamaica becomes independent.
1964 - Prometheus, the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
1991 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1996 - NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
Holidays and Observances
- Bolivia - Independence Day.
- Jamaica - Independence Day.
- United Arab Emirates - H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's Accession Day.
- Japan - Toro Nagashi (Hiroshima) - Floating lantern ceremony to honor those killed by the U.S. atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
Roman Catholicism
- Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ
- Saint Agapitus (died 258)
- Saint Donatus, bishop of Arezzo, martyr [Paris]
- Joachim (father of Mary (mother of Jesus), according to Catholic tradition)
- Saints Justus and Pastor, martyrs in 304 at Complutum [France]
- St. Xystus/Sixtus II, pope, martyr [common]
- Saint Walburga, virgin [Bruges]
Eastern Orthodoxy
- Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ
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