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Today in Music History
1911 - "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" hits #1
1939 - Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe
1949 - Dragnet is 1st broadcast on radio (KFI in Los Angeles)
1964 - Rolling Stones begin 1st US tour (with Bobby Goldsboro and Bobby Vee)
1972 - "Hot Rod Lincoln," by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9
1989 - Country singer Rebe McEntire weds her manager Narvel Blackstone
1994 - Pearl Jam rocker Eddie Vedder (29) weds Beth Liebling (27)
Births in Music
1924 - Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (d. 1997)
1942 - Curtis Mayfield, Chicago, soul vocalist, composer (Freddie's Dead, Superfly)
1946 - Ian Hunter, England, singer, guitarist (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)
1946 - John Paul Jones, [John Baldwin], rock bassist (Led Zeppelin)
1947 - Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T. Rex) (d. 2003)
1954 - Dan Hill, Canadian singer and songwriter (Sometimes When We Touch)
1970 - Julie Masse, French Canadian singer
1657 - Manuel de Egues, composer
1660 - Johannes Schenck, composer
1738 - Johann Christoph Oley, composer
1746 - James Hook, composer
1750 - Frederic Thieme, composer
1773 - Michael Gottard Fischer, composer
1801 - Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer
1828 - Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer
1828 - Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer
1829 - Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer
1832 - Alexander Charles Lecocq, French composer
1841 - Eduardo Caudella, composer
1844 - Emile Paladilhe, composer
1867 - Bela Anton Szabados, composer
1868 - Lvar Henning Mankell, composer
1887 - Emil Axman, composer
1888 - Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958)
1893 - Assen Karastoyanov, composer
1904 - Jan Peerce, [Jacob Pincus Perelmuth], NYC, tenor (NY Met Opera)
1907 - Antonio Emmanvilovich Spadavecchia, composer
1922 - Ivan Patachich, composer
1926 - Carlos Veerhoff, composer
1926 - Janez Maticic, composer
1927 - Boots Randolph, Paducah KY, saxophonist (Yakety Sax)
1932 - Dakota Staton, [Rabia Aliyah], US jazz singer (In the Night)
1939 - David Frederick Stock, composer
1943 - Mike Dennis, rocker (Dovells)
1944 - Michael Clarke, NYC, rock drummer (Byrds-Turn! Turn! Turn!)
1946 - Eddie Holman, American singer
1949 - Stephen Ruppenthal, composer
1950 - Suzi Quatro, American musician and actress
1951 - Christopher Cross, Texas, singer (Sailing)
1951 - Deniece Williams, [Chandler], IN, singer (Love Wouldn't Let Me Wait)
1952 - Billy Powell, American keyboardist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1956 - Danny Wilde, rocker (Rembrandts)
1964 - Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)
1964 - Doro Pesch, German singer
1965 - Mike Gordon, American musician
1965 - Jeff Blumenkrantz, American composer and actor
1968 - Jamie O'Neal, American singer
1968 - Samantha Sprackling, Nigerian singer
1969 - Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician
1969 - Hiroyuki Takami, Japanese musician
1970 - Esther Hart, Dutch singer
1970 - Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer
1974 - Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)
1976 - Yuri Ruley, American drummer
1987 - Lalaine, American actress and singer
Deaths in Music
1661 - Gottfried Scheidt, composer, dies at 67
1804 - Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer, dies at 35
1809 - John "Christmas" Beckwith, composer, dies at 58
1849 - Francois de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa, composer, dies at 73
1858 - Julius Reubke, German composer, dies at 24
1872 - Heinrich Esser, composer, dies at 53
1875 - Georges [Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold] Bizet, French composer, dies at 36
1888 - Cark Reidel, composer, dies at 60
1890 - Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer, dies at 76
1898 - Nikolai Afanisev, composer, dies at 77
1899 - Johann Baptist Strauss, Austria, composer (Waltz King), dies at 73
1913 - Josef Richard Rozkosny, composer, dies at 79
1959 - Ole Windingstad, composer, dies at 73
1975 - Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (b. 1906)
1986 - Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree, composer, dies at 89
1987 - Andres Segovia, classical guitarist
1990 - Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (b. 1949)
1994 - Hub Matthijsen, violinist/bandmaster, dies at 52
1998 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
2004 - Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (b. 1966)
2006 - Johnny Grande, original accordion/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley's Comets (b. 1932)
One Year ago Today in the News
- The United Nations Security Council unanimously passes a declaration allowing foreign naval vessels to enter Somali territorial waters to deal with pirates. (BBC News)
- A SNCF train runs into a school bus at a level crossing at Mesinges, near the town of Allinges in the mountainous Haute Savoie area of France with at least six people killed. (Reuters)
- Wachovia, the fourth largest bank in the United States, fires its Chief Executive Officer, G. Kennedy Thompson, due to losses incurred in the subprime mortgage crisis. (Bloomberg)
- The Bank of England says that new mortgage approvals in the United Kingdom in April were at record lows. (The Guardian)
- In United States v. Santos, by a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court takes a narrow interpretation of federal laws regarding money laundering, and use the decision in Cuellar v. United States to unanimously overturn the money laundering conviction of Humberto Cuellar. (Fox News)
- The Supreme Court refuses to hear Major League Baseball Advanced Media v. C.B.C. Major League Baseball had sought to overturn a judgement against them in state court in Missouri that permitted C.B.C. to run fantasy baseball leagues using real player names without a license from MLB. (Sports Illustrated)
- The International Atomic Energy Agency will send an inspection team to Syria to investigate claims by the United States that it was secretly building a 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)
News from this Day in History
350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
1608 - Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec.
1620 - Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
1866 - Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States.
1885 - Last military engagement fought on Canadian soil: Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police.
1888 - The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner.
1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast.
1935 - One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
1965 - Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew.
1965 - For 21 minutes, Edward H. White floats free outside the space vehicle Gemini IV for the first time.
Holidays and Observances
- Roman Empire - Festival to Bellona.
- Confederate Memorial Day observed in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee.
- Vladimirskaya (in Russia)
- Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs of Uganda.
- Saint Kevin of Glendalough
- Saint Clothilde (d. 545)
- Blessed Pope John XXIII
- Saint Paula (d. 273)
- Saint Ovidius
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