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Today in Music History
1896 - Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio
1958 - Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio
1964 - Rolling Stones 1st US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass
1989 - Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith
1990 - "Turtle Power" by Partners In Kryme hits #13
1992 - Wilson Phillips release their 2nd album "Shadows and Light"
Births in Music
1944 - Marvin Hamlisch, NYC, composer/pianist (Sting, Chorus Line)
1955 - Michael Anthony, Chicago Ill, bassist (Van Halen-Jump, 1984)
1577 - Giovanni Righi, composer
1614 - Benjamin Rogers, composer
1715 - Herman-Francois Delange, composer
1751 - Antoni Weinert, composer
1777 - Christian Traugott Tag, composer
1803 - Michail I Glinka, Russian composer
1806 - Isaac Strauss, composer
1807 - Robert Fuhrer, composer
1828 - James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer
1830 - Olivier Metra, composer
1831 - Jan G Palm, Curacao, bandmaster/choir master/composer
1857 - Edward William Elgar, Broadheath, England, composer (Pomp and Circumstance)
1858 - Harry Rowe Shelley, composer
1863 - Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (d. 1942)
1876 - Hakon Borresen, composer
1887 - Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
1891 - Ernst Kunz, composer
1900 - David Wynne, composer
1909 - Robin Orr, composer
1913 - Bert Farber, Bkln NY, orch leader (Arthur Gudfrey, Vic Damone)
1913 - Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992)
1915 - Robert Moffat Palmer, composer
1923 - Del Simmons, rocker (Capt Beefheart)
1927 - Andre Vandernoot, Flemish conductor (Royal Flemish Opera)
1929 - Alcides Lanza, composer
1929 - Frederic Devreese, composer
1932 - Sammy Turner, Patterson, NJ, singer (Lavender Blue Moods)
1933 - Bob Rozario, Shanghai China, orch leader (Tony Orlando, Marie)
1934 - Johnny Carter, US singer (Give your baby a standing ovation)
1937 - Jimmy Jones, American singer and songwriter
1939 - Charles Miller, rock flutist/saxophonist (War)
1941 - William Guest, Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knight Show)
1941 - Charlie Watts, drummer (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
1943 - Ilaiyaraaja, Indian composer
1945 - Bob Benrit, rocker
1947 - Mark Elder, British opera and symphony conductor
1950 - [Antone] Chubby Tavares, rocker (Tavares)
1951 - Steve Brookins, rocker (.38 Special)
1953 - Keith Allen, Welsh comedian, actor, singer and writer
1954 - Michael Steele, American musician (Bangles-Eternal Flame, Walk Like an Egyptian)
1959 - Lydia Lunch, American singer
1960 - Tony Hadley, rock vocalist (Spandau Ballet-True)
1961 - John Cameroon, guitarist (Claw Boys Claw)
1961 - Dez Cadena, American musician (Black Flag)
1966 - Pedro Guerra, Spanish songwriter and singer
1970 - B-Real, American rapper (Cypress Hill)
1976 - Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane)
1976 - Adrian Carlos Olivares, Mexico City, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
1980 - Fabrizio Moretti, American rock drummer (The Strokes)
1981 - Tucker Rountree, American guitarist and composer.
1983 - Brooke White, American singer
Deaths in Music
1750 - Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German composer, dies at 68
1873 - Francois Hainl, composer, dies at 65
1927 - Freidrich Hegar, composer, dies at 85
1937 - Louis Vierne, French organist and composer, dies at 66
1947 - Hermann Darewsky, composer, dies at 64
1949 - Dynam-Victor Fumet, composer, dies at 82
1949 - Ernest Ford, composer, dies at 91
1968 - André Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (b. 1929)
1972 - Franz Philipp, composer, dies at 81
1977 - Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist/composer, dies at 91
1983 - Stan Rogers, Canadian musician, dies in aircraft fire (b. 1949)
1984 - Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (b. 1908)
1986 - Daniel Sternefeld, Belgian conductor/composer (Elegie), dies at 80
1987 - Andres Segovia, Spanish composer/guitarist, dies at 94
1987 - Sammy Kaye, orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 77
1990 - Stiv Bators, American singer (The Dead Boys, The Lords of the New Church) (b. 1949)
1997 - Doc Cheatham, jazz trumpeter, dies of stroke at 91
1999 - Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)
2006 - Vince Welnick, musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) (b. 1951)
2007 - Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (b. 1949)
2008 - Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
One Year ago Today in the News
- The International Atomic Energy Agency will send an inspection team to Syria to investigate claims by the United States that it was secretly building an nuclear reactor. (Reuters)
- A suicide bomber strikes outside the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital Islamabad with at least eight people dead. (CNN)The
- United Nations Security Council goes on a mission to Africa with the first leg of the mission to Djibouti to discuss the Somali Civil War. (BBC News)
- Thirteen people are killed and 14 others injured in a bus crash in Anzoátegui, Venezuela. (Xinhua)
- At least 8 people are suffocated at the Samuel K. Doe stadium in Monrovia, Liberia in a 2010 World Cup qualification match between Liberia and Gambia. (AP via CNNSI)The
- Rajasthan Royals led by Shane Warne win the first Indian Premier League cricket competition defeating the Chennai Super Kings in the final at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. (AAP via Fox Sports)
- United States presidential election, 2008: New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the Puerto Rico Democratic primary, 2008. (The Guardian)
- Approximately 500 Australian Army troops withdraw from Nasiriyah in southern Iraq fulfilling a commitment made by the Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd in the 2007 Australian federal election. (Reuters)
- Macedonian voters go to the polls for the Macedonian parliamentary election, 2008 with reports of violence in ethnic Albanian areas. The Prime Minister of Macedonia Nikola Gruevski claims victory for his centre-right party. (Reuters) (BBC News)
- Voters in the Bolivian departments of Beni and Pando go to the polls for autonomy referendums. (AP via CNN)
- A large fire breaks out at Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles. There was at least one explosion. (Sky News)
News from this Day in History
455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
1098 - First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
1615 - First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
1692 - Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, is found guilty, and would go on to be hanged on June 10.
1763 - Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
1774 - Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, is reenacted.
1780 - The Derby horse race is held for the first time.
1800 - The first smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.
1835 - P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
1855 - The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
1886 - U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
1953 - The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised.
1966 - Surveyor program: The Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.
1979 - Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
1999 - The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
2003 - Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.
2004 - Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!.
Holidays and Observances
- Italy's Festa della Repubblica (Republic Day), which commemorates the birth of the Repubblica Italiana and the end of the monarchy.
- Xenia name day in Slovakia.
- Shavuoth (Judaism) (2006).
- The death of Hristo Botev in Bulgaria.
- Independence day Samoa 1962
- The Greek Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Nicephorus' death.
The following Catholic saints:
- Saint Erasmus
- Saint Eugene I (d. 657)
- Saint Blandina
- Saint Felix of Nicosia
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