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Happy Canada Day!
Hope you all had a funtastic holiday. The weather here in Southern Ontario couldn't have been better. Happy Birthday Canada!!! Also hope everyone got out their instruments and did a little playing (Happy Birthday?). globalstrings was out there supplying strings and enjoying the day. Aaaaah, summer. Remember, when you need new strings at a great price, just order them at globalstrings. We'll ship 'em to you fast and you'll save some cash. With these prices you'll think you have a string endorsement. DR, Elixir, Hannabach, John Pearse, Savarez, SIT, Thomastik-Infeld for your guitars, bass, mandolin, violin, etc. Keep Playin' Folks. All the Best.
Today in Music History
1964 - Cilla Black records Beatle's "Its For You," McCartney plays piano
1969 - Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain
Births in Music
1917 - Murry Wilson, American musician and producer (The Beach Boys) (d. 1973)
1939 - Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1973)
1941 - Stéphane Venne, French Canadian songwriter
1949 - Robert Paquette, French Canadian singer and songwriter
1581 - Johann Staden, composer
1589 - Guillaume van Messaus, composer
1636 - Daniel Speer, composer
1714 - Christoph W Ritter von Gluck, Austria composer (Il there pastore)
1737 - Francois Leonard Rouwyzer, composer
1746 - Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer
1763 - Peter Ritter, composer
1793 - Antoine Prumier, composer
1814 - Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer
1819 - Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (d. 1900)
1857 - Francesco Spetrino, composer
1880 - Albert Szirmai, composer
1892 - Jack Hylton, English orchestra leader/impresario (Crazy Passage Show)
1904 - Carl Weinrich, composer
1906 - Robert Levine Sanders, composer
1910 - Earl Hawley Robinson, composer
1910 - William Douglas Denny, composer
1914 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (d. 2004)
1916 - Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
1918 - Imam Elissa, singer
1922 - Genrikh Matusovich Vagner, composer
1924 - Rick Besoyan, composer
1925 - Marvin Rainwater, Wichita Ks, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
1925 - Yasushi Akutagawa, composer
1926 - Billy Usselton, saxophonist
1926 - Lee Allen, Pittsburg, Ks, tenor sax (Walkin' With Mr Lee)
1932 - Sammy Turner, Paterson NJ, vocalist (Lavender Blue)
1933 - David Benjamin Lewin, composer
1934 - Tom Springfield, British singer and songwriter (The Springfields)
1935 - Gilbert Kalish, Brooklyn NY, pianist/professor (SUNY Stony Brook)
1945 - James Orville Fulkerson, composer
1948 - Gene McFadden, American songwriter (d. 2006)
1949 - Roy Bittan, American musician (E Street Band)
1951 - Joey Puerta, rocker (Ambrosia)
1952 - Johnny Coila, rocker
1952 - Wayne Haner, rock bassist (Axe)
1953 - Mark Hart, British musician (Crowded House and Supertramp)
1954 - Pete Briquette, Irish musician (Boomtown Rats)
1956 - Jeffrey Cooper, rock guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1957 - Mike Anger, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1964 - Dave Parsons, rocker (Transvision Vamp, Sham 69-That's Life)
1970 - Colin Edwin, Australian musician (Porcupine Tree)
1970 - Monie Love, English rapper
1974 - Rocky Gray, American musician
1975 - Erik Ohlsson, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
1979 - Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer
1983 - Michelle Branch, American singer (The Wreckers)
1985 - Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
1986 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer
Deaths in Music
1591 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)
1663 - Thomas Selle, composer, dies at 64
1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composer, dies at 66
1794 - Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 65
1878 - Francois-Emmanuel-Joseph Bazin, composer, dies at 61
1895 - William Rockstro, composer, dies at 72
1911 - Felix Mottl, composer, dies at 54
1940 - Bertram Shapleigh, composer, dies at 69
1952 - Henriette H Bosmans, Dutch cello player/pianist/composer, dies at 56
1971 - Edward Ballantine, composer, dies at 84
1982 - Poul Rovsing Olsen, composer, dies at 59
1984 - Ramiro Cortes, composer, dies at 50
1990 - Snooky Lanson, singer, dies at 76
1992 - Edith Valckaert, Belgian violinist, dies at 42
1992 - Jose Monje, [Camaron de la Isla], Spanish flamenco singer
1994 - Marion Williams, gospel singer, dies of diabetes at 66
2002 - Ray Brown, American jazz bassist (b. 1926)
2007 - Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano (b. 1929)
News from this Day in History
- The President of Zambia Levy Mwanawasa is flown to Paris for treatment after suffering a stroke at the African Union summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (BBC News)
- 2008 Jerusalem bulldozer rampage: A man drives a bulldozer into several vehicles on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, killing three and leaving dozens other injured, before being shot dead by police officer. (Ynet)
- Natalie Coughlin and Aaron Peirsol break world records for the 100 metres backstroke at the United States Olympic trials. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
- A jury orders pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis to pay $114 million in compensation to the Government of Alabama for overcharging for Medicaid prescription drugs. (AP via Google News)
- Starbucks announces that it will close 600 underperforming coffee shops in the United States. (AP via CNN Money)
- A man stabs five people to death in a Shanghai police station. (AP via Google News)
- A four-day state of emergency is declared in Mongolia after violent protests following the legislative elections. (BBC News)
-Thousands of citizens battle local government officials in a major riot in Guizhou in China over a police cover-up dealing with the death of a local girl. (Straitstimes)
Today in the News
1578 - Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island.
1698 - Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine.
1679 - Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
1776 - The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
1777 - Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.
1808 - Simon Fraser reaches the Pacific Ocean near New Westminster.
1823 - Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the die hard Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
1951 - Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system.
1962 - The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits segregation in public places.
1971 - Australian Evonne Goolagong becomes the first Aborigine to win the Wimbledon singles tennis title.
1979 - The first U.S. coin to honor a woman, the Susan B. Anthony dollar, is introduced.
2001 - AbioCor self contained artificial heart created.
2002 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
Holidays and Observances
- Palio di Provenzano in Siena, Italy
- Canada Day. Under the Holidays Act, Canada Day is always observed on July 1 unless that date falls on a Sunday, in which case it is observed on July 2.
- Originally, in the Roman Catholic Church, the Feast of the Visitation was celebrated on this day, although it has since been transferred to May 31
- Aberoh and At
- Saint Bernardino Realino (d. 1616)
- Saint John Regis
- Saint Marti
- Saint Otto, bishop of Bamberg (d. 1139)
- Saint Oudoceus, bishop of Landaff
- Saints Processus and Martinianus, martyrs
- Saint Swithun, bishop of Winchester, confessor
- Saint Monegundes, matron, recluse
- Annual pilgrimage at Mariánska hora
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