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Todays News in Music History
1735 - 1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, SC
1902 - Opera "Hunchback of Notre Dame," premieres in Monte Carlo
1922 - WOC-AM in Davenport IA begins radio transmissions
1927 - 1st US radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts"
1947 - Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Telephone," premieres in NYC
1951 - Netherlands Radio School forms
1968 - David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd
1980 - Billy Wyman said he will leave Rolling Stones in 1983
1993 - Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester NY
1995 - Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) and Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) wed
Births in Music
1894 - Andres Segovia, Linares, Spain, Classical guitarist
1947 - Dennis De Young, Chicago Il, vocalist (Styx-Its Raining Again)
1948 - Keith Knudsen, American drummer and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (d. 2005)
1632 - Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer
1716 - Gaspard Fritz, composer
1751 - Karl Haack, composer
1770 - Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer
1771 - Friedrich Christian Ruppe, composer
1776 - John Parry, composer
1819 - Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer
1841 - Samuel Prowse Warren, composer
1850 - George Henschel, composer
1880 - Eric De Lamarter, composer
1901 - Wayne King, saxophonist, bandleader (d. 1985)
1902 - Walter Herbert, German-born conductor and impresario (d. 1975)
1914 - Pee Wee King, Milwaukee Wisc, country vocalist (Pee Wee King Song)
1915 - David van de Woestijne, Flemish pianist/composer (Les Agronautes)
1915 - Marcel Landowsky, composer
1929 - André Mathieu, Quebec composer (d. 1968)
1931 - Dieter Schonbach, composer
1933 - Elisabeth S "Elly" Belder-Ameling, Dutch soprano
1933 - Yoko Ono Lennon, [Mrs John Lennon], Tokyo Japan, vocalist
1939 - Marlos Nobre, composer
1939 - Marek Janowski, Polish-born conductor
1941 - David Blue, [Cohen], Providence RI, rocker (Cupid's Arrow)
1941 - Herb Santiago, vocalist (Frankie Lymon and Teenagers-Why Do Fools Fall)
1941 - Irma Thomas, [Lee], US vocalist (It's Raining)
1952 - Juice Newton, [Judy Cohen], Virginia, vocalist (Angel of the Morning)
1952 - Veronica "Randy" Crawford, US vocalist (One Day I'll Fly Away)
1953 - Derek Pellicci, rock drummer (Little River Band-Help Is On It's Way)
1953 - Nico Arzbach, rock guitarist/singer (Stampei, Dike)
1953 - Robbie Bachman, Canadian drummer (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1956 - Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer (d. 1997)
1958 - Gar Samuelson, American drummer (d. 1999)
1964 - Paul Hanley, British musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
1965 - Dr Dre, [Andre Young], rap singer
1968 - Tommy Scott, British musician (Space)
1969 - Jason Sutter, American drummer (Smash Mouth, American Hi-Fi)
1970 - Raine Maida, Canadian musician (Our Lady Peace)
1977 - Sean Watkins, American guitarist and songwriter
1980 - Regina Spektor, Russian-born singer and songwriter
1983 - Juelz Santana, American rapper
1984 - Buddy Nielsen, American singer (Senses Fail)
Deaths in Music
1745 - Nicola Fago, composer, dies at 67
1790 - Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer, dies at 67
1799 - Maurus Haberhauer, composer, dies at 52
1829 - Jan Krtitel Kuchar, composer, dies at 77
1833 - Ignac Ruzitska, composer, dies at 55
1833 - Georg Johann Schinn, composer, dies at 64
1846 - Giovanni Liverati, composer, dies at 73
1885 - Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, composer, dies at 61
1939 - Ludwig Bonvin, composer, dies at 89
1956 - Gustave Charpentier, French opera composer (Louise), dies at 95
1959 - Jaroslav Kvapil, composer, dies at 66
1959 - Eric Zeisl, composer, dies at 53
1959 - Alfred Alessandrescu, composer, dies at 65
1966 - Casimir von Paszthory, composer, dies at 79
1967 - Manuel Palau Boix, composer, dies at 74
1975 - Luigi Dallapiccola, composer
1976 - Eddie Dowling, composer (Anywhere USA), dies at 81
1985 - Willy Alberti, [Carel Verbruggen], Dutch singer, dies at 58
1995 - Eddie Williams, blues/Jazz Bassist, dies at 82
1995 - John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, US jazz trumpeteer (Stormy weather), dies at 83
1995 - Bob Stinson, American guitarist (b.1959)
1997 - Eric William Fenby, musician, dies at 90
2003 - Johnny Paycheck, American country singer/songwriter (b. 1938)
Todays News
-Voters in Pakistan go to the polls in the Pakistani general election, 2008. (AP via Sydney Morning Herald)
-An international conference aiming to ban the use of cluster bombs opens in Wellington, New Zealand. (TVNZ)
-A suicide bombing targeting a Canadian military convoy kills at least 37 Afghan civilians and injures three Canadian soldiers in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan (CTV)
-Ryan Newman wins the 50th Daytona 500. (FOX)
Other tidbits and news on this day in history
3102 BC - Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga- Lord Krishna is believed by Hare Krishnas and Hindus to have left the planet on this day.
1229 - The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
1885 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.
1929 - First Academy Awards are announced.
1930 - While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
1930 - Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
1979 - Snow fell in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the first and only recorded time in history.
Holidays and Observances
- Family Day - Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario.
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