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Today in Music History
1949 - BBC radio begins broadcasting
1953 - Vocalist Geddy Lee of Rush is born in Toronto. He is also featured on the No. 16 single ``Take Off'' by Bob & Doug McKenzie, characters from ``SCTV'' played by comedians Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas.
1959 - The Isley Brothers record ``Shout.'' The song reaches No. 47. Joey Dee & the Starliters take the song to No. 6 in 1962.
1965 - The Beatles' second film - ``Help!'' - premieres in London. Queen Elizabeth is in attendance.
1966 - Bob Dylan is injured in a motorcycle accident near his Woodstock, N.Y., home; he goes into seclusion.
1974 - Singer Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas dies of a heart attack in London. She is found in her bed with a ham sandwich by her side.
1982 - Duran Duran's Andy Taylor marries Tracie Wilson in Los Angeles.
1980 - David Bowie opens on stage in Denver in the title role of ``Elephant Man'' to critical acclaim.
1987 - Michigan's governor announces an annual ``Four Tops Day'' to honor the group's contribution to American music.
1998 - Miramax Films co-chairmen Bob and Harvey Weinstein announce that although money can't buy you love, it can buy them all rights to the Beatles' landmark film "A Hard Day's Night." Miramax announces plans to release the 1964 classic later that year for it's 35th anniversary with new footage, a fully restored negative and digitally remastered, six-track stereo sound.
1998 - The first headlining tour of matchbox 20 begins at UNO Lakefront Arena in New Orleans.
1999 - Anita Carter, singer and stand-up bass player for country act the Carter Sisters, dies at home in Nashville. She is 66.
2000 - 'N Sync's annual Challenge For The Children celebrity basketball game, held at St. John's University in New York, raises $550,000 for a group of charities. The event sees musicians Queen Latifah, Youngbloodz, Jordan Knight, and Pink, actors Dean Winters and Duane Martin, and MTV VJ Ananda Lewis join members of 'N Sync in a star-studded game.
Births in Music
1916 - Charlie Christian, American jazz guitarist (d. 1942)
1953 - Geddy Lee, Toronto, Canada, lead vocalist/bassist (Rush-Tom Sawyer)
1966 - Martina McBride, country singer
1973 - Wanya Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
1590 - Gilles Hayne, composer
1646 - Johann Theile, German composer (Adam and Eve)
1723 - Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer
1739 - Johannes Ritschel, composer
1755 - Franz Gotz, composer
1778 - Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer
1853 - Henry Morton Dunham, composer
1865 - Nicola Spinelli, composer
1867 - Enrique Granados, Spain, composer
1883 - Manuel Infante, Spanish composer/conductor
1887 - Rudi Stephan, composer
1887 - Sigmund Romberg, Nagykanizsa Hungary, operetta composer (Blossom Time)
1893 - Arre Merikanto, Finnish composer (12-tones music)
1900 - Alexander Vasileyevich Mosolov, composer
1900 - Don Redman, Piedmont WV, orch leader (Sugar Hill Times)
1909 - Georgy Mushel, composer
1911 - Jan Cikker, composer
1923 - Jim Marshall, founder of Marshall Amplification
1925 - Mikis Michael George Theodorakis, Chios Greece, composer (Raven)
1928 - Bidzina Alexandrovich Kvernadze, composer
1935 - Leonard Lee, rocker (Shirley and Lee)
1935 - Peter Schreier, Meissen Germany, tenor (Dresden State Opera 1961)
1939 - Annea Lockwood, composer
1946 - Neal Doughty, Evantson Ill, rock keyboardist (Reo Speedwagon)
1951 - Dean Pitchford, rocker
1956 - Patti Scialfa, singer, guitarist and songwriter (As Long as I Can Be)/Mrs Bruce Springsteen
1957 - Alessandra Marc, American operatic soprano
1959 - John Sykes, Irish hard rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy-Blue Murder)
1968 - Paavo Lotjonen, Finnish Cellist from the band Apocalyptica
1971 - Lisa Ekdahl, Swedish singer songwriter
Deaths in Music
1669 - Christopher Simpson, composer, dies
1786 - Franz Asplmayr, composer, dies at 58
1797 - Christoph Rheineck, composer, dies at 48
1808 - SelŒm III, poet/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808), dies
1825 - Micah Hawkins, composer, dies at 48
1838 - Jonathan Huntington, composer, dies at 66
1844 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer, dies at 53
1856 - Robert A Schumann, German pianist/composer (Humoresque), dies at 46
1859 - Auguste Mathieu Panseron, composer, dies at 63
1886 - Adolf Muller, composer, dies at 84
1906 - Alexandre Luigini, composer, dies at 56
1930 - Alexander von Fielitz, composer, dies at 69
1933 - Gerhard Rusenkrone Schjelderup, composer, dies at 73
1963 - Dorian Le Gallienne, composer, dies at 48
1966 - Pal Jardanyi, composer, dies at 44
1970 - Jonel Perlea, composer, dies at 69
1970 - John G B Barbirolli, English conductor/composer, dies at 70
1974 - Cass Elliot, singer (Mamas and Papas), chokes to death in London at 32
1978 - Wesley La Violette, composer, dies at 84
1980 - Jan Tausinger, composer, dies at 58
1984 - Fred Waring, orch leader (Fred Waring Show), dies at 84
1995 - Les Elgart, American jazz musician and bandleader (b. 1917)
1996 - Jason Thirsk, American bassist (Pennywise) (b. 1967)
2004 - Rena Vlahopoulou, Greek actress and singer (b. 1923)
Today in the News
- The government of Australia ends its mandatory detention of all asylum seekers. (BBC News)
- FBI raid local offices and homes of local Democratic politicians around the Cleveland area, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. (AP via Google News)
- King George Tupou V of Tonga relinquishes many of his powers, ending centuries of absolute monarchy. (AP via Google News)
- An internal U.S. Department of Justice report is released finding that Monica Goodling, a senior aide to former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, illegally based hiring decisions on political affiliation. (The New York Times)
- Suicide bombers target Kurdish political protesters in Kirkuk and Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad killing at least 48 people and wounding 249. (The New York Times)
- Human Rights Watch has called for military aid to Kenya to be halted until an inquiry is held into a crackdown in the west of the country. (BBC News)
- A fire destroys the Grand Pier at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. (BBC News)
News from this Day in History
1793 - John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
1836 - Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
1907 - Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp ran from August 1-9, 1907, and is regarded as the founding of the Scouting movement.
1945 - The BBC Light Programme radio station was launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
1948 - Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad - after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin opened in London.
1958 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1981 - Marriage of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer.
1987 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build the tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
2005 - Astronomers announce their discovery of Eris.
Holidays and Observances
- Faroe Islands - Ólavsøka: opening of the Løgting session.
- National Anthem Day in Romania.
Roman Catholicism
- Saint Eugenius, king [Magdeburg]
- Saint Felix I, pope, and companions (Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix, (siblings)), martyrs [common]
- Saint Ladislas, king, confessor (Deposition) [Hungary]
- Saint Lupus, bishop of Troyes, confessor [Cologne, Constance, Metz, Paris, France]
- Saint Olaf II of Norway, king of Norway, martyr, patron of woodcarvers [Sleswig, Scandinavia] - celebrated in Norway as Olsok (St. Olav's Day)
- Saint Pantaleon [Paris]
- Saint Beatrice of Nazare
- Saint Martha, host of Christ, sister of Lazarus, patron saint of cooks, domestic staff and dieticians [common]
- Saint Serafina
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