Good, Good Morning Everyone,
Thanks for dropping in to globalstrings. It's a grey, rainy day here in Southern Ontario. It's not to hot and the garden is planted and growing. A great day for sitting in the house and doing some picking. Don't forget to order up your new strings (DR, Elixir, Hannabach, Savarez, SIT, Thomastik-Infeld and soooo many more) and we'll ship them out to you right away. New strings at your door in a very short while, and less expensive than a store. What could be better. Place your order and we'll ship out fast and you'll be happy with nice new strings and playing away. Enjoy your Day and All the Best.
Today in Music History
1903 - The Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of Music.
1909 - "Shine On, Harvest Moon" by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1
1948 - "William Tell Overture" by Spike Jones peaks at #6
1965 - Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"
1965 - Beatles are awarded MBE
1972 - John Lennon's political "Sometime in NYC" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" and "Luck of the Irish"
1976 - "Yes, Yes, Yes" by Bill Cosby hits #46
1993 - "Three Little Pigs" by Green Jelly hits #17
Births in Music
1912 - Eddie Williams, blues/Jazz Bassist
1941 - Chick Corea, Chelsea Mass, jazz pianist (Delhpi I, Toy Dance)
1977 - Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American blues-rock guitarist
1985 - Tasha-Ray Evin, Canadian musician (Lillix)
1468 - Juan del Encina, composer
1526 - Marc-Antoine de Muret, composer
1842 - Rikard Nordraak, composer
1857 - Achille Simonetti, composer
1874 - Willem Louis Frederic Landre, composer
1876 - Narciso Garay, composer
1881 - Juan de Hernandez, composer
1885 - Werner Erich Josten, Elberfeld Germany, composer (Jungle)
1892 - John Donald Robb, composer
1897 - Alexandre Tansman, Lodz Poland, composer (Dyptique)
1900 - Amadeo Roldan, composer
1903 - Emmett Hardy, American musician (d. 1925)
1904 - Eino Roiha, composer
1907 - Giorgio Nataletti, composer
1909 - Archie Bleyer, Corona NY, orch leader (Arthur Godfrey)
1909 - Mansel Treharne Thomas, composer
1914 - Maurice Ohana, British?/French? pianist/composer (La Celestine)
1922 - Leif Thybo, composer
1928 - Richard Sherman, composer/lyricist (Mary Poppins)
1928 - Vic Damone, [Vito Farinola], Bkln, singer (Street Where You Live)
1932 - Mimi Coertse, a South African soprano
1941 - Roy Harper, Manchester, rocker (Folkjokeopus)
1942 - Len Barry, American singer and musician (1-2-3-Dovells)
1943 - Reg[inald] Presley, [Ball], rock vocalist (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1944 - Maurice Jackson, US singer (Independents-Leaving You)
1944 - Howard Cowart, rocker
1948 - Barry Bailey, Doraville Ga, rocker (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1949 - John Wetton, English musician (Asia)
1951 - Ben E Carlos, [Brad Carlson], rock drummer (Cheap Trick-Dream Police)
1951 - Brad Delp, American singer (Boston-More Than a Feeling) (d. 2007)
1952 - Dale Krantz, singer (Crossings-Collis Band)
1952 - Oliver Knussen, Glasgow Scotland, composer (Chicara)
1952 - Pete Farndon, English musician (The Pretenders) (d. 1983)
1953 - Rocky Burnette, Memphis, rock vocalist (Towing the Line)
1956 - Rob Collins, English musician (The Charlatans) (d. 1996)
1958 - Rebecca Holden, American actress and singer
1959 - John Linnell, American musician (They Might Be Giants)
1962 - Paul Clark, English musician (The Bolshoi)
1965 - Filip Topol, Czech musician and writer
1968 - Bobby Sheehan, American musician (Blues Traveler) (d. 1999)
1969 - Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (Omen, Bikini) (d. 2007)
1982 - Ben Blackwell, American musician
1983 - Josh Dies, American author and musician (Showbread)
1985 - Chris Young, American musician
1992 - Allie DiMeco American musician and actress (The Naked Brothers Band)
Deaths in Music
1616 - Cornelis F Schuyt, Dutch organist/composer (Madrigalen)
1761 - Meinrad Spiess, composer, dies at 77
1858 - William Horsley, composer, dies at 83
1887 - Gustav Weber, composer, dies at 41
1917 - Maria Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan composer, pianist, dies at 63
1942 - Walter Leigh, composer, dies at 36
1947 - Jazeps Medins, composer, dies at 70
1957 - James F "Jimmy" Dorsey, US orchestra leader, dies at 53
1962 - John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Epic March), dies at 82
1966 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (b. 1891)
1968 - Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76
1988 - Marcel Poot, Belgian baron/composer, dies at 87
1989 - Peter Conrad Baden, composer, dies at 80
1989 - Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917)
1995 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist, dies at 75
1997 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (b. 1924)
2006 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
Today in the News
- A tornado at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch near Little Sioux, Iowa kills four Boy Scouts and injures several others.(Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
- More than 80 countries and international aid meet in Paris to develop a strategy for delivering billions of dollars in aid to Afghanistan. (AFP via The Australian)
- The People's Republic of China and Taiwan begin their first formal talks in a decade on improving cross-strait relations. (AFP)
- Irish voters go to the polls for the Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland to enable ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon of the European Union. Over three million citizens are entitled to vote. Voting opened at 07:00 and will close at 22:00 IST (06:00 to 21:00 UTC). (RTÉ)
- The United States Food and Drug Administration has received 167 reported incidents of Salmonellosis from eating tainted tomatoes in 17 states with New Mexico and Texas the worst affected areas. (Reuters)
- NASA launches the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) from Cape Canaveral, Florida. (AP via Google News)
- June 2008 tornado outbreak sequence: A tornado hits a Boy Scout camp in western Iowa resulting in at least four deaths. (Des Moines Register) (AP via Yahoo! News)
- Cuba introduces a wages system where workers are paid according to productivity rather than all workers in the same job receiving the same income. (Miami Herald)
- The Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper apologises to tens of thousands of the aboriginal peoples of Canada for more than a century of abuses of First Nations, Inuit and Métis at residential schools set up to assimilate them into Canadian society. (SBS) (AP via Yahoo! News)
- The United States House of Representatives votes today on whether to refer Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush introduced Monday evening by Rep. Dennis Kucinich to a committee. (The Washington Post)
- InBev, the world's largest brewing company makes an unsolicited $46 billion takeover bid for United States brewing company Anheuser-Busch. (AFP via Google News)
- Estonia, Greece and Finland ratify the Treaty of Lisbon. (Xinhua) (The International Herald Tribune)
- Norway legalises same-sex marriage. (Pink News)
News from this date in History
1896 - J.T. Hearne sets a cricket record for the earliest date of taking 100 first-class wickets in a season.
1939 - Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1964 - Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
1967 - The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
1967 - Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).
1979 - Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
2004 - A 1.3 kilogram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.
Holidays and Observances
- Roman Empire – sixth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta
- Philippines – Araw ng Kalayaan (Independence Day) 1898
- Russian Federation – Russia Day (Independence Day) 1990
- United Kingdom – Trooping the Colour (Military celebration of the monarch's official birthday held in London on the second Saturday of June)
- Brazil – Dia dos Namorados (Lover's Day; similar to St. Valentine's)
- United States – Loving Day celebrates the legalization of interracial marriage
- Saint John of Sahagun, hermit, confessor
- Saint Leo III died 816
- Saints Nabor and Nazarius, martyrs
- Blessed Ternan, bishop, confessor
- Saint Ursinus, bishop of Bourges, confessor (Translation day)
- Saint Pharaildis, virgin
- Wales - Dydd y Dywysoges Gwenllian (Welsh) - Princess Gwenllian's Day
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