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Today in Music History
1821 - Opera "Der Freischutz" is produced (Berlin)
1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) Brit radio traitor charged with treason
1948 - National Security Council authorizes covert operations for 1st time
1961 - CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke
1967 - Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California
1977 - Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten and Paul Cook, beaten and robbed by London pub
Births in Music
1942 - Sir Paul McCartney, Liverpool, England, singer, songwriter, musician (The Beatles, Wings)
1723 - Giuseppe Scarlotti, composer
1744 - Augustin Holler, composer
1757 - Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, Austrian composer and piano manufacturer (d. 1831)
1780 - Michael Henkel, composer
1820 - Martin Andreas Udbye, composer
1822 - Henry David Leslie, composer
1850 - Richard Heuberger, composer
1892 - Edward Steuermann, composer
1901 - Jimmy Dale, Bronx NYC, orch leader (Sonny and Cher)
1904 - Manuel Rosenthal, Paris, France, conductor and composer (Bootleggers)
1905 - Eduard Tubin, composer
1906 - Kay Kyser, Rocky Mount NC, orch leader (Kay Kyser's Kollege)
1907 - Benny Payne, Phila, pianist (Billy Daniels Show)
1910 - Ray McKinley, Ft Worth Tx, orch leader/drummer (Glenn Miller Time)
1913 - Sammy Cahn, American composer (d. 1993)
1915 - Victor Legley, composer
1917 - Akhmet Jevdet Ismail Hajiyev, composer
1922 - Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
1925 - Herman "Ace" Wallace, blues guitarist/singer
1927 - Dennis Landau, CEO (Cooperative Wholesale Society)
1927 - Simeon Pironkov, composer
1933 - Tommy Hunt, US singer (Flamingos-Lovers Never Say Goodbye)
1942 - Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor (d. 2004)
1942 - Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (d. 1980)
1943 - Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer
1944 - Sandy Posey, American singer
1944 - Paul Lansky, composer
1947 - Douglas Young, composer
1948 - Nick Drake, rocker (Back to Fruit Tree)
1949 - Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)
1950 - Jackie Leven aka Sir Vincent Lone, Scottish singer and songwriter
1952 - Rickey Gazda, rocker
1953 - Jerome Smith, US guitarist (KC and the Sunshine Band-Boogie Shoes)
1954 - William Beard, rock drummer (Face To Face)
1957 - Tom Bailey, England, rocker (Thompson Twins-Doctor Doctor)
1958 - Daniels Koran, saxophonist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1961 - [Genevieve] Alison Moyet, Essex England, rock vocalist (Yaz, Alf)
1963 - Darren "Dizzy" Reed, US keyboardist (Guns n' Roses)
1969 - Pål Pot Pamparius, Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)
1971 - Nathan Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
1975 - Jemma Griffiths, Welsh singer-songwriter
1976 - Blake Shelton, American Country Singer
1980 - Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer and songwriter
1989 - Renee Olstead, American singer and actress
Deaths in Music
1686 - Johann Quirsfeld, composer, dies at 43
1726 - Michel-Richard Delalande, French organist and composer, dies at 68
1799 - Johann Andre, composer, dies at 58
1821 - Charles Hague, composer, dies at 52
1850 - Antoni Weinert, composer, dies at 99
1859 - Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer, dies at 65
1876 - August Rockel, composer, dies at 61
1909 - Learmont Drysdale, composer, dies at 42
1911 - Franjo Zaver Kuhac, composer, dies at 76
1934 - Francisco Lacerda, composer, dies at 65
1935 - August Reusner, composer, dies at 64
1942 - Arthur Willard Pryor, composer, dies at 71
1955 - Walter Rein, composer, dies at 61
1955 - Willy Burkhard, composer, dies at 55
1962 - Volkmar Andreae, Swiss conductor/composer (Bruckner), dies at 82
1964 - Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev, composer, dies at 58
1965 - George Melachrino, composer, dies at 56
1973 - Fritz Mahler, composer, dies at 71
1992 - Peter Allen, Australian singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
2007 - Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (b. 1951)
Todays News
- Romanian villagers have voted to re-elect a dead man as their mayor, to prevent his living rival winning. [(bbc)]
- The High Court in South Africa has ruled that Chinese South Africans are to be reclassified as black people [(bbc)]
- Cyd Charisse, a former co-star of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, has died in Los Angeles aged 86, her publicist says [(bbc)]
- Six laptops containing information about 20,000 patients have been stolen from a south London hospital.The computers were taken from a locked cabinet in a secure room at St George's Hospital in Tooting [(bbc)]
- Environmentalists in Kenya are worried that an insecticide is being used by farmers to kill lions and other predators. Among the latest incidents, two lions were poisoned and killed in the Maasai Mara game reserve after eating the carcass of a hippo that had ingested carbofuran[(bbc)]
- The US military claims that a Shiite "special group" was responsible for a car bombing in northern Baghdad yesterday that killed over 50 people. (AP via Jerusalem Post)
- Afghan and Canadian forces begin an offensive against the Taliban in the Arghandab District of Kandahar. (Press Association via Google News)
- Israel agrees to a truce starting Thursday with the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip. (BBC)
- Demonstrators in the Moquegua Region in southern Peru release 48 police officers who they had held hostage for a day. (CNN)
The Boston Celtics defeat the Los Angeles Lakers to win the 2008 NBA Finals. (NZ Stuff)
- President Nicolas Sarkozy announces that France intends to return to the military structure of NATO for the first time since Charles de Gaulle led it out of the organisation in 1966. (AFP via Google News)
News from this day in History
618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries of the Tang Dynasty's rule over China.
1178 - Five Canterbury monks see what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the moon's distance (on the order of metres) are a result of this collision.
1429 - French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
1815 - Napoleonic Wars: the Battle of Waterloo leads to Napoleon Bonaparte abdicating the throne of France for the second and final time.
1858 - Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own. This prompts Darwin to publish his theory.
1873 - Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1923 - Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
1928 - Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
1940 - "Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill.
1981 - The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California.
1983 - Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
Holidays and Observances
- Seychelles - National Day
- Autistic Pride D
- Waterloo Day
- Saints Leontius, Hypatius and Theodulus
- Saint Elizabeth of Schönau
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