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Music History for Today
1917 - The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first ever jazz record for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
1970 - Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album
1983 - Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 37 weeks
1987 - 1st release of Beatles compact discs
Births in Music
1928 - Antione "Fats" Domino, NO LA, rhythm and blues pianist (Blueberry Hill)
1932 - Johnny Cash, Kingsland, Ark, country singer (I Hear the Train Coming)
1937 - Hagood Hardy, Canadian musician and composer (d. 1997)
1945 - Mitch Ryder, rocker (and Detroit Wheels-Devil With the Blue Dress)
1953 - Michael Bolton, Ct, rock vocalist (That's What Love Is All About)
1971 - Erykah Badu, singer
1979 - Corinne Bailey Rae, English singer
1587 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (d. 1639)
1588 - Nicolaus Erich, composer
1675 - Johann Philipp Treiber, composer
1677 - Nicola Fago, composer
1717 - John Randall, composer
1770 - Antoine Reicha, composer
1772 - Caspar Furstenau, composer
1825 - Hans Balatka, composer
1831 - Filippo Marchetti, composer
1834 - Aleksander Zarzycki, composer
1838 - Wendelin Weissheimer, composer
1845 - Aleksander Rozycki, composer
1868 - Leonard Borwick, British(?) pianist
1874 - Carl Vogler, composer
1875 - Richard Wetz, composer
1877 - Russell Alexander, composer
1879 - Frank Bridge, English violinist/composer/conductor/tutor of B Britten
1884 - Christina A A [Dina] Koudijs-van Appeldoorn, pianist/composer
1896 - Eduard Flipse, Dutch conductor/composer
1914 - Witold Rowicki, composer
1916 - Mordecai Seter, composer
1916 - Jackie Gleason, American actor, writer, composer, and comedian (d. 1987)
1919 - Luc-Andre Marcel, composer
1921 - Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (d. 2007)
1924 - Mark Bucci, NYC, composer (1959 Arts and Letters Award)
1925 - James Moody, US, jazz saxophonist/orchestra leader
1926 - Arsene Souffriau, composer
1928 - Aldonis Kalnins, composer
1928 - Monique Leyrac, French Canadian singer and actress
1930 - Lazar Berman, Leningrad Russia, pianist (Budapest 3rd place-1956)
1931 - Francisco Kroepfl, composer
1943 - Bob "Bear" Hite, Calif, vocalist and harmonicist (Canned Heat-Going Up the Country)
1943 - Paul Cotton, LA Calif, rocker (Poco)
1947 - Sandi Shaw, [Sandra Goodrich], Essex, rocker (Girl Don't Come)
1949 - Emma Kirkby, British(?) soprano
1950 - Jonathan Cain, Chicago, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Journey, Babys)
1956 - Keisuke Kuwata, Japanese singer
1960 - Jaz Coleman, British musician
1966 - Najwa Karam, Lebanese singer
1969 - Hitoshi Sakimoto, Japanese composer
1971 - Max Martin, Swedish composer and producer
1971 - Hélène Ségara, French singer
1980 - Alex Fong, Hong Kong singer
1983 - Varick Pyr, Hip-Hop artist
1984 - Natalia Lafourcade, Mexican singer
1986 - Crystal Kay, Japanese singer
Deaths in Music
1552 - Heinrich Faber, German composer
1630 - William Brade, English composer
1766 - August Bernhard Valentin Herbing, composer, dies at 30
1770 - Francois Hanot, composer, dies at 72
1770 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer/violinist, dies at 77
1810 - Johann Ernst Rembt, composer, dies at 60
1827 - David Moritz Michael, composer, dies at 75
1857 - Ole Andreas Lindeman, composer, dies at 88
1859 - Ferdinand Lukas Schubert, composer, dies at 64
1889 - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (b. 1838)
1906 - Manuel Fernandez Caballero, composer, dies at 70
1913 - Felix Draeseke, German composer, dies at 77
1926 - Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller, composer, dies at 75
1933 - Antonio Nicolau, Spanish composer/conductor, dies at 74
1939 - E Fernandez Arbes, Spanish violinist/conductor/composer, dies at 75
1950 - Harry Lauder (Maclennan), Scottish comic/singer, dies at about 75
1953 - Elisabeth "Ilse" Kuyper, Dutch/US (opera)composer
1962 - Carl Emil Theodor Ehrenberg, composer, dies at 83
1970 - Ethel Leginska, composer, dies at 83
1971 - Joseph Berg, composer, dies at 43
1977 - Maxime Jacob, composer, dies at 71
1981 - Howard Hanson, US composer/conductor (Nordic), dies at 84
1982 - Gabor Szabo, Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle), dies at 45
1989 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (b. 1911)
1990 - Cornell Gunther, US musician (Coasters, Poison Ivy), dies at 53
1990 - Scott Jarvis, musician (Great Expectations)
Todays News
- The New York Philharmonic plays a concert in North Korea, becoming the first Western orchestra to do so.
- Researchers announce that they have sequenced the genome of corn.(Reuters)
- Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission Kevin Martin says he is "ready, willing and able," to prevent broadband Internet service providers from irrationally interfering with their subscribers' Internet access. (Reuters)
News and Tidbits from this day in History
1797 - The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes.
1870 - In New York City, the first pneumatic-subway opens.
1919 - An act of the U.S. Congress establishes most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park (see Grand Canyon National Park).
1935 - The Daventry Experiment, Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom.
1970 - National Public Radio incorporates as a non-profit corporation.
1971 - Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
1979 - Full Solar Eclipse over the Canadian city of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
1991 - Tim Berners-Lee introduces WorldWideWeb, the first web browser.
2006 - The world's estimated population reaches 6.5 billion.
Holidays and Observances
Bahá'í Faith - February 26, Day 1 of Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) - days in the Bahá'í calendar devoted to service and gift giving.
Nation of Islam - Savior's Day - commemoration of the birthdate of Wallace Fard Muhammad, believed to be Allah in human form, the saviour of the black race.
Liberation Day in Kuwait (1991).
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