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Music History on this Day
1911 - Opera "Natoma," premieres in Phila
1963 - Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"
1969 - Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album
1972 - Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single
1988 - Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins in Worcester Mass
Births in Music
1873 - Enrico Caruso, Naples Italy, operatic tenor (Faust)
1929 - Tommy Newsom, Va, musician/bandleader/saxophonist (Tonight Show)
1943 - George Harrison, guitarist/singer/composer (Beatle/Travelling Willberries-My Sweet Lord)
1680 - Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer
1725 - Armand-Louis Couperin, Paris France, organist/composer (Notre Dame)
1732 - Robert Hudson, composer
1735 - Ernst William Wolf, composer
1788 - Mateo Ferrer, composer
1811 - Carl Schuberth, composer
1840 - Alexis Hollander, composer
1879 - Otakar Ostrcil, composer
1890 - Dame Myra Hess, London, England, concert pianist
1895 - Henri Martelli, composer
1901 - Federico Ghisi, composer
1906 - Boris Papandopulo, composer
1918 - Rena Kyriakou, Greek pianist (d. 1994)
1922 - Matti Rautio, composer
1927 - Jacques Monod, composer
1927 - Ralph Stanley, country singer
1932 - Faron Young, American singer (d. 1996)
1932 - Martin William Karlins, composer
1936 - Norman Orville Scribner, composer
1941 - Ramon Pagayon Santos, composer
1943 - Maryann Amacher, composer
1945 - Herbert Léonard, French singer
1945 - Elkie Brooks, Manchester, England, rocker (Pearl's a Singer)
1947 - Doug Yule, American bass guitarist (The Velvet Underground)
1950 - Emitt Rhodes, musician (Merry-go-Round)
1957 - Stuart "Woody" Wood, Scot, guitarist (Bay City Rollers-Saturday Night)
1959 - Mike Peters, Welsh musician (Alarm-In the Summertime)
1960 - Tony Grimaud, Maltese-born singer and songwriter
1962 - Foster Emerson Sylvers, rocker
1968 - Evridiki, Greek Cypriot singer
1971 - Daniel Powter, Canadian musician
1973 - Justin Jeffre, American singer (98 Degrees)
1973 - Julio José Iglesias, Spanish singer
1976 - Chris Pitman, American keyboardist and member of Guns N' Roses.
1977 - Sarah Jezebel Deva, English singer
1982 - Bert McCracken, American singer (The Used)
1984 - Lovefoxxx, Brazilian singer (CSS)
1986 - Danny Saucedo, Swedish singer
1987 - Eva Avila, Canadian singer
Deaths in Music
1643 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at 60
1682 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian violist/composer, murdered at 37
1719 - Giovanni Maria Casini, composer, dies at 66
1851 - Ferdinand Simon Gassner, composer, dies at 53
1901 - Jose Rogel, composer, dies at 71
1902 - Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer, dies at 77
1906 - Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Russian composer/conductor, dies at 44
1925 - Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer, dies at 81
1934 - Daniel Protheroe, composer, dies at 67
1942 - Leo Ascher, composer, dies at 61
1953 - Jesus Garcia Leoz, composer, dies at 49
1955 - Marij Kogoj, composer, dies at 59
1957 - Kurt von Wolfurt, composer, dies at 76
1993 - Eddie Constantine, American-born actor and singer (b. 1917)
1993 - Troy Caldwell, country musician (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45
1995 - Terence Weil, cellist/teacher, dies at 73
1997 - Tony Williams, jazz drummer (Miles Davis), dies at 51
2007 - Mark Spoelstra, American singer/songwriter (b. 1940)
Todays News
- The 80th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with No Country for Old Men winning four Oscars including Best Picture.
- The National Assembly of People's Power unanimously selects Raúl Castro to succeed his brother Fidel as President of Cuba.
- Lee Myung Bak is sworn in as the President of South Korea. (Bloomberg)
- A Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 becomes the first commercial aircraft to make a flight powered by biofuel flying between Heathrow and Amsterdam. (CNN)
- Ralph Nader enters the 2008 United States presidential election as an independent candidate. (CNN)
- The Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army sign a permanent ceasefire. (BBC News)
Historic News and Tidbits
1793 - George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States.
1837 - The first practical electric motor in the US is patented by Thomas Davenport.
1870 - Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
1925 - Glacier Bay National Monument (now Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve) is established in Alaska.
1928 - Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
1951 - The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1971 - The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.
Holidays and Observances
- Kuwait's national day.
- People Power Day, special holiday in the Philippines.
- Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani,OSB
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