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Today in Music History
1963 - 1st transmission of "Pop Go the Beatles" on BBC radio
1964 - Beatles "World Tour" begins in Copenhagen Denmark
1965 - Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"
1966 - "Batman and His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70
1969 - Beatles release Ballad Of John and Yoko/Old Brown Shoe, in US
1984 - Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA"
Births in Music
1894 - Madame Bolduc, French Canadian singer (d. 1941)
1935 - Colette Boky, Quebec operatic soprano
1937 - Freddie Fender, Mexico, country singer/guitarist (Feelings)
1945 - Anthony Braxton, American jazz musician,composer and instrumentalist
1964 - Eva Fampas, Greek guitarist
1970 - Richie Hawtin, Canadian musician
1770 - James Hewitt, composer
1891 - Erno Rapee, composer
1899 - Leo Spies, composer
1907 - Marjan Kozina, composer
1909 - Paul Nordoff, Philadelphia, composer (Frog Prince)
1913 - Bruno Bettinelli, composer
1917 - Robert Merrill, Bkln NY, baritone (NY Metropolitan Opera)
1922 - Irwin Bazelon, Evanston Illinois, composer (Duo for Viola)
1930 - Pentti Raitio, composer
1931 - Cesar Bolanos, composer
1932 - Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (d. 1975)
1940 - Dorothy Rudd Moore, composer
1940 - Cliff Bennett, British singer with the Rebel Rousers
1944 - Charlie Whitney, rock guitarist (Family)
1944 - Roger Ball, Scotland, saxophonist (Average White Band)
1944 - Michelle Phillips, American singer (The Mamas & the Papas) and actress
1945 - Gordon Waller, Scotland, singer (Peter and Gordon-World Without Love)
1950 - Dagmar Krause, West Germany, singer (Henry Cow, Art Bears)
1953 - Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish musician (d. 1979)
1953 - Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (d. 2002)
1959 - Paul Taylor, rocker (Winger-17)
1961 - El Debarge, Grand Rapids Mich, rocker (Debarge-All this Love)
1962 - John P. Kee, American Gospel singer
1964 - Chris Kavanagh, rocker (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
1966 - Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
1970 - David Pybus, British musician
1971 - Shoji Meguro, Japanese composer
1972 - Nikka Costa, American singer
1974 - Stefan Lessard, American musician
1980 - Alicja Janosz, Polish singer
1982 - Jin, Chinese-American rapper
1984 - Rainie Yang, Taiwanese singer and actress
1992 - Dino Jelusić, Croatian singer
Deaths in Music
1585 - Marc-Antoine de Muret, composer, dies at 58
1826 - Karl Maria FE von Weber, German composer (Oberon), dies at 39
1872 - Stanislaw Moniuszko, composer, dies at 53
1905 - Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer, dies at 85
1907 - Agathe Grondahl, composer, dies at 59
1915 - William Charles Denis Browne, composer, dies at 26
1916 - Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You), dies at 56
1925 - Gheorghe Dima, composer, dies at 77
1939 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (b. 1900)
1951 - Serge Koussevitsky, Russian conductor/composer, dies at 76
1956 - Max Kowalski, composer, dies at 73
1972 - Godfried Devreese, composer, dies at 79
1973 - Murry Wilson, father of Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson (b. 1917)
1989 - Vaclav Kaslik, Czech opera composer/conductor, dies at 71
1994 - Derek Lek Leckenby, rock guitarist (Herman's Hermits), dies at 48
1994 - Earle Warren, alto Sax Player, dies at 79
1997 - Ronnie Lane, bassist (Faces), dies of multiple sclerosis at 50
2001 - John Hartford, American musician (b. 1937)
2004 - Steve Lacy, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
2007 - Freddie Scott, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
Todays News
- Lithuanian Prime Minister Kirkilas announces plans to avoid recession as growth of the Lithuanian economy slows. (Bloomberg).
- The Malaysian government announces a 40% hike in fuel price, from 1.92 ringgit (US$0.61) per litre to 2.70 ringgit by midnight. (BBC)(IHT)
- United States Democratic Party primaries, 2008:
- Illinois Senator Barack Obama wins the Democratic Party presumptive nomination, becoming the first African American to be nominated by a major party. (AP via Time), (BBC)
- Senator Obama wins the Montana Democratic primary, 2008.
- New York Senator Hillary Clinton wins the South Dakota Democratic primary, 2008. (BBC)
- Three people are dead and many more injured as a result of flooding in the Zollernalbkreis region in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. (CNN)
- Antonio Pettigrew hands back the gold medal he won as part of the United States 4*400 metre relay team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney following an admission that he used EPO and human growth hormone between 1997 and 2003. Michael Johnson, another member of the team, returns his gold medal on the grounds that it was "tainted". (AP via Forbes) (AP via CNN)
- General Motors announces it will close 4 pickup truck and sports utility vehicle factories in Janesville, Wisconsin, Oshawa, Ontario, Moraine, Ohio, and Toluca, State of Mexico, eliminating 10,000 jobs; it also announces plans for a small car that will achieve 45 miles per gallon in response to rising fuel prices. (AP via Google News)
- NASA reveals that Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center sustained unusual amounts of damage during the launch of STS-124. They are unsure what caused the damage, but are certain it will not cause any delay for the next launch, STS-125, in October. (CBS News via Spaceflight Now)
News from this Day in History
781 BC - The first historic solar eclipse is recorded in China.
1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh establishes first English colony on Roanoke Island, old Virginia (now North Carolina).
1760 - Great Upheaval: New England planters arrive to claim land in Nova Scotia, Canada taken from the Acadians.
1769 - A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in history.
1783 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
1784 - Madame Elizabeth Thible becomes the first female balloonist.
1792 - Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1876 - An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.
1917 - The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
1973 - A patent for the ATM is granted to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
Holidays and Observances
- Tonga - National Day.
- Finland - National flag day of the Finnish Defence Forces (on Mannerheim's birthday).
- Hong Kong - Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 memorial day.
- Saint Francis Caracciolo (died 1608)
- Saint Petrock of Cornwa
- Saint Quirinus of Sescia (died 308)
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