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Today in Music History
1976 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Don't Go Breaking My Heart,'' Elton John & Kiki Dee. The song is the first on which John sings to hit No. 1 on the British charts.
1985 - Barbra Streisand records "Broadway Album"
1986 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Glory of Love,'' Peter Cetera. Cetera was a member of the group Chicago until 1982.
1995 - Alanis Morissette's biting "You Oughta Know" soars to No. 1 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart and is the most requested tune on rock radio.
1997 - Garth Brooks plays a free concert in New York's Central Park. The concert was to coincide with the release of Brooks' new album "Sevens." However, release of the album is delayed.
2001 - Guitarist William Lewis (Billy) Byrd dies in Nashville of natural causes. He is 81. Byrd is known as one of the first to introduce electric guitar to country music.
Births in Music
1913 - George Van Eps, American guitarist (d. 1998)
1942 - B J Thomas, Houston TX, singer (Raindrops, Growing Pains Theme)
1962 - Bruno Pelletier, Québécois singer
1400 - Guillaume Dufay, French composer (d. 1474)
1818 - Henry Charles Litolff, French composer/pianist
1823 - Faustina Hasse Hodges, composer
1868 - Granville Bantock, English composer/conductor (Hebridean Symphony)
1887 - Luckey Roberts, composer
1896 - Ernesto Lecuona, Havana Cuba, composer (Malaguena)
1903 - Saburo Moroi, composer
1906 - Gerhard Frommel, composer
1921 - Manitas de Plata, Gypsy guitarist
1921 - Karel Husa, Prague Czechoslovakia, composer (Trojan Women)
1925 - Julian Orbon De Soto, composer
1925 - Felice Bryant, American country songwriter and singer (d. 2003)
1930 - Velio Tormis, composer
1936 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist (d. 1977)
1936 - Charles Pope, US soul singer (Tams-Hey Girl Don't Bother Me)
1942 - Caetano Veloso, Brazilian musician
1943 - Lana Cantrell, Sydney, Australia, singer (Those Were the Days)
1943 - Dino Valente, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (d. 1994)
1945 - Kerry Chater, rocker (Gary Puckett and Union Gap-Young Girl)
1945 - Patrice Mestral, composer
1949 - Carlo Novi, rocker
1950 - Rodney Crowell, Houston TX, country singer (She's Crazy for Leavin')
1952 - Andy Fraser, rock bassist (Free London)
1952 - Richard Joswick, rocker (Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods)
1958 - Bruce Dickinson, English singer (Iron Maiden)
1960 - Jacquie O'Sullivan, British singer (Bananarama-Venus)
1963 - Marcus Lewis, Pontiac Mich, singer (Sing me a Song)
1966 - Kristin Hersh, American singer and guitarist (Throwing Muses)
1968 - Lynn Strait, American singer (Snot)
1975 - Gaahl (Kristian Eivind Espedal), Norwegian black metal musician
1978 - Jamey Jasta, American singer (Hatebreed)
1978 - Vanness Wu, Taiwanese singer
Deaths in Music
1609 - Eustache du Caurroy, composer, dies at 60
1712 - Friederich Wilhelm Zachow, composer, dies at 48
1786 - Friedrich Schwindl, composer, dies at 49
1798 - Johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer, dies at 65
1846 - Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer, dies at 76
1893 - Alfredo Catalani, composer, dies at 39
1913 - David Popper, composer, dies at 70
1914 - Boleslaw Dembinski, composer, dies at 81
1924 - Camille Zeckwer, composer, dies at 49
1931 - Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, jazz cornetist (In Mist), dies at 29
1959 - Armas Emmanuel Launis, composer, dies at 75
1960 - Vaino Hannikainen, composer, dies at 60
1967 - Max Branch, music/radio commentator, dies at 75
1967 - Max Tak, Dutch violinist/radio commentator, dies at 75
1969 - Joseph Kosma, French composer (Autumn Leaves) (b. 1905)
1969 - Russ Morgan, orch leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 65
1978 - Franz Alphons Wolpert, composer, dies at 60
1984 - Esther Phillips, US singer (What a Difference a Day Makes), dies at 48
1992 - Titti Sotto, Cuban composer (La Esquina Habanera), dies
1993 - Roy Budd, English jazz pianist/composer (Paper Tiger), dies at 46
Today in the News (if you must know)
- The Green Bay Packers reach an agreement to trade superstar quarterback Brett Favre to the New York Jets. (CBS)
- The leaders of the 2008 Mauritanian coup d'état promise to hold elections as soon as possible. (Xinhua)
- Georgian and separatist South Ossetian forces have exchanged fire again near the town of Tskhinvali, wounding several people, officials say. (BBC)
- The Russian Foreign Ministry said it was concerned over Georgia's "military preparations," while a Georgian official said Russia would further undermine its role as peacekeeper if it failed to convince the South Ossetian side on talks. (Civil Georgia) (Civil Georgia)
- Salim Hamdan, the former driver for Osama Bin Laden is convicted of supporting terrorism in the United States in the first military war crimes trial of a terror suspect captured after the September 11, 2001 attacks. (Bloomberg)
- A military coup d'état occurs in Mauritania with the Army, led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, seizing the President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the Prime Minister Yahya Ould Ahmed El Waghef and the Interior Minister. (ABC News Australia)
News from this Day in History
1679 - The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
1782 - George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1927 - The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
1947 - Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7000-km (4375-mile) journey across the Pacific Ocean proving that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
1955 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan.
1959 - The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design and is still in use.
1974 - Philippe Petit performed a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 ft (417.0 m) in the air.
1985 - Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
2007 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.
Holidays and Observances
- BC Day - Province of Canada.
- Emancipation Day - Turks and Caicos Islands.
- National Holiday in Colombia: Battle of Boyaca, birth of Bogotá.
Roman Catholicism
- St. Afra, virgin martyr
- St. Albert of Trapani (Albert of Sicily)
- Saint Cajetan of Thienna, priest, confessor [common]
- St. Carpophorus
- St. Peter, Julian and Companions
- Saint Sixtus II, pope and companions, martyrs (sometimes only confessors) [common]
- Saint Juliana of Cornillon
- Saint Mary of Egypt [Cologne, Trier]
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