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Today in Music History
1816 - Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
1922 - WOR-AM in New York City begins radio transmissions
1934 - Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in NYC
1940 - Larry Clinton and his Orchestra record "Limehouse Blues"
1960 - Jimi Hendrix, rock and roll guitarist, plays his first gig.
1965 - Beatles record "That Means a Lot"
1971 - Natl Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio and TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes
1974 - Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono
Births in Music
1900 - Graham Spry, St Thomas Ontario, Canadian radio pioneer
1937 - Nancy Wilson, Chillicothe Ohio, jazz vocalist (Feel Like Making Love)
1941 - Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian singer, (Now That the Buffalo Are Gone)
1950 - Walter Becker, NYC, rock bassist (Steely Dan-Peg)
1967 - Kurt Cobain, rock vocalist/guitarist (Nirvana)
0193 - Renata Scotto, Savona Italy, operatic soprano
1656 - Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised
1734 - Franz Ignaz Beck, composer
1745 - Johann Peter Salomon, composer
1752 - Charles Broche, composer
1763 - Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer
1770 - Ferdinando Carulli, composer
1791 - Carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen)
1802 - Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer
1803 - Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer
1816 - Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer
1874 - Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star
1876 - Fyodor Akimenko, composer
1887 - David McKinley Williams, composer
1889 - Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer
1898 - Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (d. 1951)
1900 - Antonio Veretti, composer
1903 - Karel Janacek, composer
1904 - Armin Loos, composer
1907 - Nadine Conner, Calif, soprano (Carmen, Pamina-Magic Flute)
1911 - Robert Guyn McBride, Tucson Arizona, composer (Mexican Rhapsody)
1913 - Jozef Kresanek, composer
1913 - Nadine Conner, US, opera singer (Carmen, La Boh‚me)
1916 - Julius Juzeliunas, composer
1920 - Armin Schibler, Dutch Swiss composer (Devil in the Winter Palace)
1921 - Nurv Shiner, singer
1921 - Ruth Gipps, British(?) conductor/composer
1927 - Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2005)
1929 - Toshiro Mayuzumi, Yokohama Japan, composer (Sphenogramme)
1939 - Barbara Ellis, Olympia Wa, rocker (Fleetwoods)
1940 - Christoph Eschenbach, Breslau, Germany, pianist/conductor
1940 - Barbara Laine Ellis, singer
1944 - Lew Soloff, Bkln NY, rocker (Blood, Sweat and Tears)
1945 - Alan Hull, singer/composer
1946 - J[erome] Geils, NYC, rock guitarist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1946 - Richard Cocciante, French-Italian singer and songwriter
1946 - Sandy Duncan, American singer and actress
1948 - Billy Zoom, musician
1951 - Kathy Baillie, Morristown NJ, country vocalist (Baille Boys-Oh Heart)
1951 - Randy California, [Wolfe], Cal, guitarist (Spirit-I Got a Line on You)
1953 - Poison Ivy, American musician (The Cramps)
1954 - Jon Brant, rock bassist (Cheap Trick)
1960 - Mark Reilly, [Matt Bianco], rocker (Indio-Big Harvest)
1960 - Kee Marcello, Swedish guitarist (Europe-Final Countdown)
1962 - Joel Ellis, rocker
1963 - Ian Brown, English rock vocalist (Stone Roses-Made of Stone)
1964 - Terry Ilous, rock vocalist (XYZ, Cannibal Jacket) [or Jun 28]
1972 - K-OS, Canadian musician/rapper
1975 - Brian Littrell, singer (Backstreet Boys)
1976 - Ed Graham, English drummer (The Darkness)
1981 - Chris Thile, American musician
1985 - Yulia Volkova, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.)
1988 - Rihanna, Barbadian singer
Deaths in Music
1626 - John Dowland, English composer and lutenist (b. 1563)
1628 - Gregor Aichinger, German composer/organist, dies at about 63
1731 - Frederich Karl Erbach, composer, dies at 50
1786 - Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, composer, dies at 70
1809 - Johann Joseph Emmert, composer, dies at 76
1810 - Johann Friedrich Kranz, composer, dies at 57
1817 - Martin de Ron, composer, dies at 27
1845 - Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov, composer, dies at 57
1851 - Josef Alois Ladurner, composer, dies at 81
1904 - Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer, dies at 83
1911 - Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer, dies at 56
1911 - Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer, dies at 76
1941 - La Bolduc, French Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1894)
1942 - Guido Gasperini, composer, dies at 76
1946 - Hugh Allen, musician
1951 - Howard Brockway, composer, dies at 80
1961 - Percy Aldridge Grainger, Australian/US composer/pianist, dies at 78
1963 - Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914)
1963 - Jacob Gade, Danish Composer(b. 1879)
1969 - Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor/composer, dies at 85
1970 - Albert Louis Wolff, composer, dies at 86
1972 - Herbert Menges, composer, dies at 69
1973 - Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian/US violinist, dies at 80
1974 - David Monrad Johansen, composer, dies at 85
1975 - Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 76
1984 - Fikret Dzhamil Amirov, composer, dies at 61
1986 - Francisco Paolo Mignone, composer, dies at 88
1987 - Ivan Brkanovic, composer, dies at 80
1996 - Toru Takemitsu, Japanese composer, dies at 65
1997 - Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist (b. 1960)
2003 - Ty Longley, American guitarist (Great White) (b. 1971)
2005 - Pam Bricker, American jazz singer and Thievery Corporation vocalist (b. 1954)
Todays News
- The Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Centre following the conclusion of the STS-122 assembly mission to the International Space Station. (NASA)
- Armenian presidential election, 2008: The Prime Minister of Armenia Serge Sarkisian is elected as the President of Armenia in the first round of voting. (Canadian Presii)
- The United States Geological Survey reports a 7.6 magnitude earthquake near the indonesian province of Aceh. (BBC)
- The government of Morocco arrests 23 alleged terrorists, including Mustapha Moatassim, the Secretary General of 'Alternative Civilization', a political party recognized by the state. (Middle East Online)
News and Tidbits in History
1872 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
1935 - Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
1962 - Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the earth.
1998 - American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
2008 - A lunar eclipse occurs at ~03.26 UTC, visible to most of the world apart from Asia and Oceania.
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