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Today in Music History
1890 - Opera "Robin Hood" premieres in Chicago
1958 - "Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley hits #1
1969 - Brian Jones quits Rolling Stones because of his drug problems
1971 - Paul McCartney's album "Ram" goes gold
1972 - Bruce Springsteen signs a record deal with Columbia
1984 - Cyndi Lauper's 1st #1 "Time After Time"
1990 - Michael Jackson is hospitalized with inflamed rib cartilage
1991 - Bruce Springsteen weds his backup singer Patty Scialfa
Births in Music
1893 - Cole Porter, Indiana, composer/lyricist (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate)
1915 - Les Paul, Waukesha Wi, guitarist/inventor (Les Paul guitar)
1941 - Jon Lord, England, keyboardist (Deep Purple, White Snake)
1588 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer
1810 - Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, German composer
1828 - Carlo Marsili, composer
1829 - Gaetano Braga, composer
1849 - Joseph Vezina, composer
1865 - Alberic Magnard, French composer
1865 - Carl Nielsen, Norre-Lyndelse Denmark, composer (Det Uuslukkelige)
1865 - Lucien-Denis-Gabriel-Alberic Magnard, composer
1886 - Kusaku Yamada, composer
1888 - Adrian Grigoreyevich Shaposhnikov, composer
1888 - Hugo Kauder, composer
1900 - Fred Waring, Tyrone Penn, musician/conductor/inventor (Waring Blender)
1905 - Walter Kraft, composer
1910 - Vbilmos Demian, composer
1912 - Edgar Evans, tenor
1912 - Ingolf Dahl, Hamburg Germany, composer (Andante and Arioso)
1914 - Hermann Haller, composer
1927 - Franco Donatoni, composer
1929 - Johnny Ace, [John M Alexander Jr], Memphis Tn, R & B singer (My Song)
1930 - Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
1934 - Jackie Wilson, Detroit, singer (Lonely Teardrops, Night)
1934 - Pal Karolyi, composer
1934 - Wild Jimmy Spruill, blues guitarist
1938 - Charles Wuorinen, NYC, composer (Pulitzer 1980)
1939 - Ileana Cotrubaş, Romanian soprano
1941 - Billy Hatton, rocker
1947 - Mitch Mitchell, drummer (Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze)
1948 - Nathaniel Rosen, Altadena Ca, cellist (Tchaikovsky-gold-1978)
1951 - Benny Neyman, Dutch singer (I Don't Know How)
1951 - Bonnie Tyler, [Gaynor Hopkins], singer (Total Eclipse of the Heart)
1951 - James Newton Howard, American film composer
1952 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (d. 2004)
1954 - Pete Byrne Bath - English rocker (Naked Eyes)
1962 - Eddie Lundon, rocker (China Crisis-Christian)
1963 - Gilad Atzmon, Israeli jazz musician and author
1964 - Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer
1969 - Mitch McLee, [Douglas Lee Mitchell], Miles Mi, drummer (Southgang)
1971 - John McKeown, Scottish musician (Yummy Fur, 1990s)
1971 - Rick Renstrom, American guitarist
1974 - Samoth, Norwegian guitarist (Emperor, Zyklon)
1978 - Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse)
1979 - Ruka, Japanese drummer
1981 - Vic Zhou, JVKV band member, Taiwanese actor, singer and model.
1981 - Anoushka Shankar, Famous sitarist and daughter of Ravi Shankar.
1982 - Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer
1984 - Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
1986 - Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
Deaths in Music
373 - Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist
1361 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer/poet, dies at 69
1656 - Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
1717 - Louis Le Quointe, composer, dies at 64
1832 - Manuel Garcia, composer, dies at 57
1870 - Erik Drake, composer, dies at 82
1892 - Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, composer, dies at 59
1931 - Henrique Oswald, composer, dies at 79
1932 - Natalia Janotha, composer, dies at 76
1952 - Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
1957 - Robert Oboussier, composer, dies at 56
1967 - Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski, composer, dies at 64
1975 - David Frederick Barlow, composer, dies at 48
1989 - Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
1991 - Claudio Arrau, Chilian/US pianist/composer, dies at 88
1991 - Max van Praag, Dutch singer, dies at 77
1992 - Clarence Miller, blues/jazz vocalist, dies at 69 of a heart attack
1993 - Alexis Smith, dancer/actress (Follies), dies of cancer at 72
1996 - Walter Pardon, carpenter/traditional singer, dies at 81
2006 - Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
A year ago Today in the News
- A dispute between Southern Sudan and the central Sudanese government over Abyei will go to international arbitration. (BBC)
- Robert Kubica of the BMW Sauber team wins the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix, becoming the first Pole to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix auto race, and giving BMW its first win as a constructor. (F1-live) (Formula1) (Wikinews)
- At least two people have been killed as an earthquake rocked southern Greece, collapsing buildings and causing panic. (CNN)
- The government of Southern Sudan withdraws its mediation efforts at the Juba talks between Uganda and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army.(The Uganda Monitor)
- At least 37 miners go missing after an underground gas explosion in Ukraine. (RTÉ) (BBC)
- At least 7 people are killed and 10 injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan, coinciding on the 7th anniversary of the Osaka school massacre. (RTÉ) (BBC)
- In tennis, Rafael Nadal wins the men's singles title at the 2008 French Open for the fourth year in a row, equalling Bjorn Borg's record. (BBC News)
- A day of mourning is declared in Russia's Kaliningrad Region as the death toll from Thursday's explosion and fire on the MV Yenisei reaches eight, with two missing. (Xinhua) (Wikinews)
News from this Day in History
1310 - Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
1534 - Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River.
1650 - The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
1790 - The Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry becomes the first book to be copyrighted in the United States.
1883 - 1st commercial electric railway line begins operation (Chicago El)
1909 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.
1922 - First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University.
1928 - Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
1934 - Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
1946 - King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
1973 - Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.
1975 - House of Commons is broadcast live by radio for 1st time
Holidays and Observances
- Roman Empire paganism - third day of the Vestalia in honor of the goddess Vesta
- Catholicism
- Saint Columba (called Saint Columcille and Saint Colm, pronounced as KUHL-uhm) in Ireland, where he is honoured as one of the islands three patron saints)
- Saint Diomedes
- Saint Edmund, bishop of Canterbury, confessor (Translation day)
- Saint Efrem,(Saint Ephraim), deacon, Doctor of the Church
- Saint Liborius, bishop (of LeMans), confessor
- Saint Primus and Felicianus, martyrs [common]
- Saint Pelagia, virgin, martyr
- Lutherani
- Aidan of Lindisfarne
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