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Today in Music History
1880 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
1961 - Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby"
1972 - "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6
1992 - Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville HS at 43
Births in Music
1934 - Jean-Pierre Ferland, Québec singer
1944 - Bruce Johnston, singer/bassist (Beachboys)
1944 - Jeff Beck, Surrey England, singer/guitarist (Jeff Beck Group)
1967 - Jeff Cease, Nashville, guitarist (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
1572 - Jan Campanus, composer
1746 - Jean Baptiste Rochefort, composer
1747 - Johann Melchior Dreyer, composer
1762 - Johann Paul Wessely, composer
1803 - George James Webb, English-born composer
1808 - Anna Caroline Oury, composer
1840 - Louis Brassin, composer
1847 - Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer
1873 - Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer
1901 - Harry Partch, Oakland Calif, composer (Oedipus)
1904 - Phil Harris, American singer, songwriter and comedian (d. 1995)
1906 - Pierre Fournier, Paris France, cellist (Paris Conservatoire)
1907 - Jose de Lima Siquiera, composer
1908 - Hugo Distler, German composer
1913 - Max van Praag, Dutch singer
1920 - Bernhard Krol, composer
1922 - Roy Elihu Travis, NYC, composer (Passion of Dedipus)
1922 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
1935 - Terry Riley, Colfax Calif, composer (Spectra)
1938 - Lowell Cross, composer
1942 - Mick Fleetwood, London, rock drummer (Fleetwood Mac-Go Your Own Way)
1944 - Arthur Brown, England, rocker (Fire) [or May 24]
1944 - Chris Wood, English musician (Traffic)
1944 - John "Charlie" Whitney, English guitarist (Family, Streetwalkers, Axis Point)
1945 - Colin Blunstone, England, English musician (Zombies)
1948 - Patrick Moraz, Morges Switzerland, rock keyboardist (Yes)
1949 - John Illsley, Leicester England, rock bassist (Dire Straits)
1950 - Derrick "Duckie" Simpson, Kingston Jamaica, rocker (Black Uhuru)
1957 - Astro, [Terrence Wilson], England, rock vocalist (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1959 - Andy McClusky, rocker (Orchestal Manoeveres in the Dark-Electricity)
1961 - Curt Smith, Bath England, rock bassist/vocalist (Tears For Fears)
1961 - Dennis Danell, American musician (Social Distortion) (d. 2000)
1966 - Hope Sandoval, American singer-songwriter
1967 - Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, German musician (Rammstein)
1969 - Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
1970 - Glenn Medeiros, singer (Someday Love)
1978 - Ariel Pink, American musician
1978 - Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish)
1986 - Solange Knowles, American singer
Deaths in Music
1724 - Johann Theile, German composer (Adam und Eva), dies at 77
1882 - Joseph Joachim Raff, German opera composer (Cavatine), dies at 60
1891 - Ann Sheppard Mounsey, composer, dies at 80
1913 - Frank Lynes, composer, dies at 55
1933 - Sissieretta Joyner Jones, "Black Patti", US singer, dies at about 64
1935 - Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer (airplane crash) (b. 1890)
1936 - Nandor Zsolt, composer, dies at 49
1944 - Rio Gebhardt, composer, dies at 36
1952 - Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer, dies at 84
1987 - Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (b. 1916)
2004 - Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter (b. 1957)
2007 - Natasja Saad, Danish reggae and dancehall artist (b. 1974)
Whats in the News Today
- Franz Josef Jung, the German Minister of Defence announces plans to commit a thousand extra troops to Afghanistan. (Reuters)
- Divers see bodies in the wreck of the MV Princess of the Stars off the coast of the Philippines but no sign of survivors. (Reuters via The Age)
- Ireland's Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) says the country is in the grip of a recession for the first time in a quarter of a century. However, it predicts the economy will return to positive growth in 2009 and normal growth by 2010. (RTÉ News)
- NASA believes it has found ice on Mars after white patches uncovered by digging from the Phoenix lander are found to have sublimated.
News from this day in History
1374 - A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
1497 - John Cabot lands on North America in Newfoundland; first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.
1509 - Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon crowned King and Queen of England.
1692 - Kingston, Jamaica is founded.
1717 - The Grand Lodge of England, the first Freemasonic Grand Lodge (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England.
1901 - First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens.
1916 - Mary Pickford (a Canadian) becomes first female film star to get million dollar contract.
1918 - First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
1938 - A 450 metric ton meteorite strikes the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
1947 - Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
1949 - The first Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
1983 - Space Shuttle program: STS-7 Mission Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth.
1995 - South Africa defeats New Zealand in the 1995 Rugby World Cup. The 1995 World cup was the first major sporting event in South Africa after Apartheid.
Holidays and Observances
- Fête nationale du Québec, also called St-Jean-Baptiste Day
- One of the four Irish Quarter days in the Irish Calendar.
- Discovery Day in Newfoundland and Labrador (celebrating the 1497 discovery by John Cabot)
- Inti Raymi in Cusco
- Jāņi - Latvia
- Joninės - Lithuania
- Battle of Carabobo Day in Venezuela (1821)
- Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Rahmat (Mercy) - First day of the sixth month of the Bahá'í calendar
- Midsummer Day in England
Roman Catholic Church
- Feast of the birth of Saint John the Baptist, patron saint of Québec, Newfoundland and Torino (Turin), brush makers and knife sharpeners; also Festival of San Juan observed in Bolivia and Peru, Jaaniõhtu in Estonia.
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