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Today in Music History
1882 - Opera "Parsifal" is produced (Beirut)
1931 - Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem
1957 - Jerry Lee Lewis makes his TV debut on the ``Steve Allen Show.''
1973 - A crowd of 600,000 gathers for a rock festival at Watkins Glen Raceway, N.Y., to hear the Grateful Dead, the Band and the Allman Brothers Band.
1979 - The World Series of Rock is held at Cleveland Stadium, with Journey, Ted Nugent and Thin Lizzy.
1992 - Patti LaBelle abruptly ends a concert in Warwick, R.I., after complaining on stage about backstage food.
1998 - It is announced that after 12 years and six albums, the members of Columbia Records act Toad The Wet Sprocket will go their own ways. Of the split, the band's singer/guitarist Glen Phillips says, "We came together as kids but have grown in different directions as adults."
1999 - Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard is arrested for bouncing a check for a portion of his bail in his ongoing terrorist threat case in Santa Monica Superior Court.
2003 - The 20th annual MTV Video Music Awards begin with a big surprise, with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera singing Madonna's "Like a Virgin" while decked out in racy wedding attire similar to what the Material Girl wore during her performance of the song at the 1984 ceremony. Madonna herself then appears to sing her latest single, "Hollywood," at one point exchanging open-mouth kisses with both Spears and Aguilera.
Births in Music
1926 - Charlie Biddle, American-born Quebec jazz bassist (d. 2003)
1943 - Mike Bloomfield, Chicago Ill, blues guitarist/singer (Analine)
1973 - Marc Dupré, Quebec humorist and singer
1796 - Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian musician (d. 1859)
1808 - Charles Lucas, composer
1813 - Alberto Mazzucato, composer
1835 - Jose Garcia Robles, composer
1837 - Christian Barnekow, composer
1892 - Petro Petridis, Greek composer (Isotope Suite)
1893 - Rued Immanuel Langgaard, composer
1900 - Maurice Johnstone, composer
1901 - Sandor Vandor, composer
1901 - Rudy Vallee, Vt, singer (Vagabond Dreams, My Time Is Your Time)
1906 - Gottlob Frick, singer
1908 - Zbigniew Turski, composer
1914 - Carmen Dragon, American composer (d. 1984)
1925 - Larry Pruden, composer
1928 - Adrian Ratiu, composer
1930 - Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (d. 1998)
1937 - Peter Duchin, NYC, pianist/bandleader (Peter Duchin Orch)
1938 - George Cummings, rocker (Dr Hook and Medicine Show)
1939 - Clem Cattini, rock drummer (Tornados London)
1941 - Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
1945 - Richard William Wright, keyboardist of Pink Floyd
1946 - Jonathan Edwards, American singer and songwriter
1948 - Andy Fraser, rocker
1948 - Gerald Casale, american musician and director (founding member of Devo)
1949 - Steven Peregrine Took, English musician (T-Rex)
1949 - Simon Kirke, rock drummer (Bad Company)
1949 - Peter Doyle, Australian singer (The New Seekers) (d. 2001)
1951 - Greg Gluffria, Wash DC, rock keyboardist (House of Lords-Sahara)
1953 - Steve Duncan, Knoxville Tn, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1954 - Ken Margolis, rocker (Mink DeVille)
1954 - Steve Morse, American guitarist
1961 - David Huff, rocker (Giant)
1962 - Rachel Sweet, American singer
1965 - Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer
1965 - Delfeayo Marsalis, jazz musician
1966 - Shikao Suga, Japanese singer/songwriter
1970 - Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist (Arch Enemy)
1971 - Stephen Lynch, American musician
1976 - Jacoby Shaddix, American singer (Papa Roach)
1978 - Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer/songwriter
1979 - Lee Minwoo, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1979 - Birgitta Haukdal, Icelandic singer
1980 - Stephen Christian, American singer (Anberlin)
1982 - Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Icelandic singer and actress
1985 - Tynisha Keli, American singer
1988 - Ayla Brown, American singer
1990 - Soulja Boy, American Rapper
Deaths in Music
1641 - John Amner, composer, dies at 61
1741 - Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Italian composer, dies at 63
1750 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue), dies at 65
1778 - Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer, dies at 68
1802 - Giuseppe Sarti, Italian composer (Il er pastore, Ifigenia), dies at 72
1837 - John Ross, composer, dies at 73
1838 - Bernhard Henrik Crusell, composer, dies at 62
1850 - Stefano Pavesi, composer, dies at 71
1864 - Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer, dies at 67
1937 - Abdul Muslim Mahomayev, composer, dies at 51
1940 - Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer, dies at 66
1965 - Maurice Yvain, composer, dies at 74
1969 - Ernst Tittel, composer, dies at 59
1969 - Frank H Loesser, US songwriter/composer (Guys and Dolls), dies at 59
1969 - Gabriel von Wayditch, composer, dies at 80
1972 - Heal Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903)
1978 - Jan Willem van Otterloo, composer, dies at 70
1979 - Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (b. 1898)
1980 - Cecil Burleigh, composer, dies at 95
1982 - Keith Green, American gospel singer and pianist (b. 1953)
1982 - George Kleinsinger, US composer (Tubby the Tuba), dies at 68
1991 - Luis Aravena Munoz, Chilean singer/exiled to Netherlands, dies at 45
1996 - Harold C Fox, Fashion designer/musician, dies at 86
Today in the News
- A fire destroys the Grand Pier at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. (BBC)
- The hole in Qantas Flight 30, a Boeing 747 that made an emergency landing on July 25, is believed to have been caused by the explosion of an oxygen tank. Terrorism is not suspected. (CNN)
- At least 16 people are killed and over 150 wounded in two blasts in Istanbul. (BBC)(NYT)
- Carlos Sastre of Spain wins the 2008 Tour de France. (BBC News)
- Seven people are wounded and two killed in a church shooting at a Unitarian Universalist church in Knoxville, Tennessee. (WBIR-TV) (MSNBC)
- Twenty-nine convicts are hanged in Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran. (BBC News)
- A previously unknown group releases a video threatening the Beijing Olympics and claiming responsibility for deadly bus explosions in Kunming. (BBC News)
- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) presents the articles for the impeachment of President George W. Bush to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. (Fox News)
- Google announces that it has found and indexed over 1 trillion unique web pages. (San Jose Mercury News)
- Kapiliele Faupala is crowned the new King of Wallis (Uvea), succeeding the late Tomasi Kulimoetoke II, who died in 2007. (Pacific Magazine)
News from this Day in History
1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of treason. Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day.
1586 - The first potato arrives in Britain.
1609 - Bermuda is first settled by survivors of the English Sea Venture en route to Virginia.
1821 - Peru: José de San Martín declares independence from Spain.
1868 - The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is passed, establishing African American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
1996 - Kennewick Man, the remains of a prehistoric man, is discovered near Kennewick, Washington.
Holidays and Observances
- Faroe Islands - Ólavsøka Eve
- Peru - Independence Day
Roman Catholicism
- Saints Nazarius and Celsus
- Saint Innocent I, pope
- Saint Pantaleon, martyr
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