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Today in Music History
1792 - 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time
1941 - Singer/songwriter Paul Anka is born in Ottawa, Ontario. He has four No. 1 hits, including ``Lonely Boy'' from the film ``Girl's Town.'' He writes ``My Way'' for Frank Sinatra, ``She's a Lady'' for Tom Jones and the theme for NBC-TV's ``Tonight Show.''
1954 - Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
1956 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``My Prayer,'' The Platters. The five are the first black artists to have a No. 1 single on the pop charts.
1966 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Wild Thing,'' The Troggs. Because of a legal dispute, the song is simultaneously released on two different labels, something unique for a No. 1 single.
1966 - Beatles' "Yesterday... and Today," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks
1968 - The Beatles' Apple Boutique in London closes after heavy losses. Entire inventory is given away.
1996 - Tim Collins, manager of Aerosmith since 1984, is fired after a brief meeting with the band in Boston. The band claims that they are tired of being urged to represent Collins' many social causes.
1997 - The Battlefield Benefit gets under way at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The concert - which features Kentucky HeadHunters, Highway 101, Rhett Akins, Ronna Reeves and Randall Franks - raises money for the preservation of sites remaining from the 1864 Battle of Nashville, which sealed the fate of the Confederacy.
2001 - Peter Buck, guitarist for R.E.M., pleads not guilty to a series of charges relating to an alleged "air rage" incident during a transatlantic flight in April. Buck, appearing at Isleworth Crown Court, is accused of assaulting two British Airways staffers, being drunk on board an aircraft, causing criminal damage and interfering with a control panel on an external door.
2003 - Pioneering producer and indie-label operator Sam Phillips dies in Memphis of respiratory failure. He is 80. In the early '50s, Phillips' Memphis Recording Service (later known as Sun Studio) cut and leased major blues and R&B recordings by Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Ike Turner and others.
2003 - The Backstreet Boys' Kevin Richardson reprises his role as Billy Flynn in the stage production of "Chicago" when he joins the show's U.S. touring company for its Aug. 5-24 stay at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre. Richardson first played the part earlier this year as a member of the Broadway cast.
2003 - Iron Maiden drummer Michael "Nicko" McBrain is arrested and charged with assault after hitting a parking attendant with his car, according to reports. The incident occurs backstage at the Tommy Hilfiger at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, N.Y., where the band is performing that night.
2003 - More than 450,000 fans turned out in Toronto for the Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto benefit at Downsview Park, aimed at boosting the city's sagging economy in the wake of the SARS virus. "I think it's the biggest crowd we've ever played to, so it is a fantastic buzz," Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger said.
2003 - Iron Butterfly guitarist Erik Braunn dies in L.A. of apparent cardiac arrest. He is 52. Braunn had been suffering from a "debilitating physical ailment," according to a post on his official Web site.
2006 - World's longest running music show Top of the Pops broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.
Births in Music
1936 - George "Buddy" Guy, US blues guitarist and singer (Stone Crazy)
1941 - Paul Anka, Ottawa Ontario, singer and composer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
1945 - David Sanborn, jazz saxophonist (David Letterman Show)
1747 - Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, composer
1751 - Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart, Austrian pianist/Wolfgang's sister
1793 - Josepf Francois Snel, composer
1817 - Charles Radoux-Rogier, composer
1824 - Eugenio Terziani, composer
1875 - James William Tate, composer
1886 - Johan Algot Haquinius, composer
1899 - John Woods Duke, composer
1899 - Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud)
1906 - L'udovit Rajter, composer
1906 - Serafin Pro, composer
1913 - Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski, composer
1921 - Grant Johannesen, Salt Lake City Ut, pianist (Ostend 1st prize 1947)
1922 - Zbigniew Wiszniewski, composer
1924 - Christopher Shaw, composer
1925 - Antoine Duhamel, composer
1929 - Christine McGuire, Middletown Oh, singer (McGuire Sisters-Sugartime)
1934 - Andre Prevost, composer
1936 - Istvan Zelenka, composer
1936 - Yuri Alexandrovich Falik, composer
1944 - Teresa Cahill, opera singer
1946 - Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, rock bassist (Jethro Tull)
1949 - Joyce Jones, US singer (1st Choice)
1949 - Duck Baker, American guitarist
1950 - Frank Stallone, American singer and actor
1950 - Wime de Craene, Flemish chansonnier/composer
1956 - Phil Fearon, rocker (Galaxy, Kandidate-I Don't Want to Lose You)
1957 - Rat Scabies, [Chris Miller], Surrey England, rock drummer (Damned)
1958 - Kate Bush, English singer/songwriter
1958 - Neal McCoy, American singer/songwriter and humanitarian
1965 - Tex Axile, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
1968 - Sean Moore, Welsh drummer (Manic Street Preachers)
1973 - Sonu Nigam, Indian singer/actor
1975 - Tifini Hale, Palm Springs Calif, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why)
1977 - Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Lostprophets)
Deaths in Music
1653 - Gabriel Naude, French librarian/ composer, dies at 53
1655 - Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer, dies at 47
1727 - Franz Weichlein, composer, dies at 67
1781 - Augustin Ullinger, composer, dies at 35
1936 - Adolf Philipp, composer, dies at 72
1943 - Benjamin James Dale, composer, dies at 58
1957 - Sem Dresden, Dutch composer/conductor, dies at 76
1958 - Alexander Albrecht, composer, dies at 72
1968 - Jon Leifs, composer, dies at 69
1970 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)
1973 - Erich Katz, composer, dies at 72
1974 - Lev Konstantinovich Knipper, composer, dies at 75
1980 - Norman Lloyd, composer, dies at 70
1995 - Biggie Rodwell Tembo Marasha, musician, dies at 36
2006 - Anthony Galla-Rini, American accordionist (b. 1904)
Today in the News
- President George W. Bush signs The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, said to be the most important federal housing legislation in a generation. (Reuters)
- The United Kingdom House of Lords rejects an appeal by alleged British computer hacker Gary McKinnon against extradition to the United States to face charges of hacking into Pentagon and NASA computers. (AP via The Washington Post)
- Air safety investigators from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau confirm an oxygen cylinder was responsible for an explosion on board Qantas Flight 30 on 25 July 2008. (ABC News Australia)
- Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić is flown to The Hague to face a trial in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. (BBC)
- The International Olympic Committee lifts its ban on Iraqi athletes participating in the Beijing Olympics following assurances from the Government of Iraq about the independence of the Iraqi Olympic Committee. (AP via Google News)
- United States Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska is indicted on seven counts related to his conduct as a Senator. (Wall Street Journal)
- World Trade Organisation trade talks in Geneva collapse after disagreements between developed and developing nations over access to agricultural markets. (Deutsche Welle)
News from this Day in History
1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1608 - At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs. This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.
1733 - First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States.
1930 - In Montevideo, Uruguay win the first Football World Cup.
1932 - Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor, premieres.
1971 - Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission - David Scott and James Irwin on Apollo Lunar Module module, Falcon, land with first Lunar Rover on the moon.
1975 - Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.
1990 - The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
2003 - In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
Holidays and Observances
- Vanuatu - Independence Day (formerly Anglo-French condominium of the New Hebrides).
Roman Catholicism
- Saints Abdon and Sennen [common]
- Saint Peter Chrysologus, bishop, Doctor of the Church (died 450)
- Saint Ursus, bishop of Auxerre, confessor [Auxerre]
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