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Today in Music History
1795 - "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem
1929 - First weekly radio broadcast of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word.
1963 - Paul McCartney is fined £17 for speeding
1984 - John Lennon releases "I'm Stepping Out"
Births in Music
1933 - Julian Bream, guitarist and lutenist
1946 - Linda Ronstadt, American singer
1947 - Peter Banks, British guitarist (Yes)
1956 - Joe Satriani, American guitarist
1638 - Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, composer
1700 - Johann Christoph Richter, composer
1802 - John Barnett, composer
1818 - Heinrich Esser, composer
1849 - Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer
1864 - Marie Tempest, English singer and actress (d. 1942)
1870 - Ernest Walker, composer
1884 - Enrique Soro Barriga, composer
1898 - Noel Gay, [Richard Moxon Armitage], composer
1898 - Norman Demuth, composer
1905 - Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (d. 1974)
1910 - Ronald Binge, composer
1913 - Cowboy Copas, American country singer (d. 1963)
1913 - Dorothy Schwartz, American violinist (d. 2007)
1921 - Jack Hamilton Beeson, composer
1926 - John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer
1929 - Charles Anthony, American tenor
1933 - Frederico Davia, opera singer
1934 - Harrison Birtwhistle, Accringto Lancashire, composer (Trombeau)
1939 - William David Hellerman, composer
1941 - Geoffrey Burgon, composer
1944 - Millie Jackson, American singer
1945 - Peter Lewis, LA Calif, rock guitarist/vocalist (Moby Grape)
1948 - Alicia Bridges, American singer
1948 - Artimus Pyle, American drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1949 - John Arthur Casken, composer
1952 - David Pack, rocker (Ambrosia)
1952 - Jeff Carlisi, rock guitarist (38 Special)
1952 - Larken Collins, rocker (Rossington-Collins Band)
1952 - Johnny Thunders, American musician (d. 1991)
1956 - Ian Curtis, British musician (d. 1980)
1956 - Marky Ramone, American musician (Ramones)
1966 - Jason Bonham, English drummer; son of John Bonham
1970 - Chi Cheng, American musician (Deftones)
1971 - Danijela, Croatian singer
1972 - Michael Barnett, UK musician / producer
1973 - John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born drummer (System of a Down)
1974 - Chot Ulep, Filipino musician
1976 - Jim Jones, African Puerto Rican American rapper
1977 - Ray Toro, American musician (My Chemical Romance)
1977 - Faraz Anwar, Pakistani guitarist (Mizraab)
1982 - Haley Scarnato, American American Idol contestant
1984 - Vice Cooler, American musician
1992 - Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
Deaths in Music
1738 - Antonio Maria Pacchioni, composer, dies at 84
1782 - Farinelli, Italian singer, dies at 77
1782 - Robert Wainwright, composer, dies at 33
1789 - Jacques Duphly, French composer, dies at 74
1798 - Gaetano Pugnani, composer, dies at 66
1810 - Jean-Baptiste Rey, composer, dies at 75
1854 - Wincenty Studzinski, composer, dies at 39
1857 - Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist/composer, dies at 66
1915 - Ludwik Grossman, composer, dies at 80
1930 - Leopold von Auer, Hungarian/US violinist and composer
1933 - Freddie Keppard, American musician (b. 1890)
1947 - Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
1958 - Julia Lennon, mother of Beatle John, dies in an auto accident
1959 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78
1960 - Lawrence Tibbett, American opera singer and actor (b. 1896)
1980 - Henri Martelli, composer, dies at 85
1982 - Bill Justis, American musician and producer (b. 1926)
1987 - Jack O'Hagan, cricketer/composer (Our Don Bradman)
1992 - Henk van der Molen, guitarist/composer/writer (Martine Bijl)
1995 - Willie George "Bill" Woodruff Sr, vocalist, dies at 66
2000 - Louis Quilico, Canadian baritone (b. 1925)
News from this Day in History
1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
1741 - Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
1799 - The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard.
1806 - Pike expedition: near St. Louis, Missouri, United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine to explore the west.
1815 - Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
1870 - Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories.
1916 - In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
1931 - Kid Chocolate becomes Cuba's first world boxing champion.
1955 - Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
2003 - AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
Holidays and Observances
- Ancient Rome - Festival of Castor and Pollux
- Palermo, Sicily - Festival of Santa Rosalia
- Japan - Third day of Obon feast period
- Confuflux (Discordianism)
- Saint Abh
- Saint Bonaventure, bishop, Doctor of the Church
- Saint Donald's feast day.
- Saints Quiricus and Julitta, martyrs
- Saint Plechelm, bishop, confessor (d. 713)
- Saint Swithun, bishop of Winchester, confessor (Translation) England (also celebrated in the Anglican Church).
- Saint Vladimir the Great (Eastern Orthodox; Roman Catholic).
- Holy Nine virgi
- Saint Editha
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