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Today in Music History
1910 - 1st opera by a US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC
1965 - Rolling Stones fined 5 lb. sterling each for public urination
1967 - Beatles' "Penny Lane," single goes #1
1982 - Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident
Births in Music
1927 - John Harold Kander, composer (Cabaret, Funny Lady, Kramer vs Kramer)
1938 - Charley Pride, Sledge, Miss, country singer (Sweet Country)
1941 - Wilson Pickett, Prattville, Alabama, R&B singer
1644 - Gottfried Wegner, composer
1657 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer
1734 - Joseph Schmitt, composer
1756 - Johann Christoph Vogel, composer
1781 - Gustave Vogt, composer
1844 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Tikhvin Russia, composer (Scheherazade)
1866 - Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, composer
1872 - Frank Hoyt Losey, composer
1881 - Paul Le Flem, composer
1882 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer
1898 - Otto Jochum, composer
1899 - Jean Goldkette, Greek-born jazz musician (d. 1962)
1901 - Piotr Perkowski, composer
1905 - John Kirkpatrick, NYC, pianist (Concord Sonata)
1911 - Smiley Burnette, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
1914 - Cesar Guerra Peixe, composer
1916 - Louis Toebosch, composer
1927 - John Kander, American songwriter
1929 - Ctirad Kohoutek, composer
1929 - Kai Winding, rocker
1930 - Pat Halcox, British musician
1934 - Pavle Despalj, composer
1936 - Robert Lee Smith, US singer (Tams, You Lied to Your Daddy)
1939 - Travis Pritchett, rocker (Travis and Bob)
1939 - Giannis Markopoulos, Greek composer
1947 - Barry (B.J.) Wilson, England, rock drummer (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
1950 - John Hartman, Falls Church Va, rock drummer (Doobie Brothers)
1951 - Bill Frisell, American jazz musician
1953 - Jamie West-Oram, rocker (Fixx)
1957 - György Pazdera, Hungarian bassist (Pokolgép)
1957 - Melvin Gentry, vocalits/guitarist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1959 - Irene Cara, American actress and singer
1962 - James McMurtry, American folk singer/songwriter
1964 - Courtney Pine, British jazz saxophonist
1964 - Rozalla, Zambian singer
1965 - Jeff Labarr, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1966 - Jerry Cantrell, US rock guitarist (Alice in Chains-Dirt)
1967 - Miki Berenyi, English singer (Lush)
1970 - Queen Latifah, American singer and actress
1975 - Sutton Foster, American actress, singer, and dancer
1975 - Rodleen Getsic, American musician, civil servant
1977 - Devin Lima, American singer
1979 - Adam Levine, American singer (Maroon 5)
1981 - Jang Nara, Korean singer and actress
1984 - Vonzell Solomon, American Idol Contestant
Deaths in Music
1799 - John Randall, composer, dies at 82
1816 - Johann Paul Schulthesius, composer, dies at 67
1817 - Johann Jakob Walder, composer, dies at 67
1823 - Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval, French composer, dies at 69
1870 - Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer, dies at 48
1875 - Ferdinand Laub, composer, dies at 43
1889 - William Henry Monk, composer, dies at 66
1918 - Willem Coenen, composer, dies at 80
1924 - John Frederick Bridge, composer, dies at 79
1938 - Cyril Rootham, composer, dies at 62
1967 - Jimmy Blaine, singer (Stop the Music), dies at 42
1968 - Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer, dies at 85
1973 - Lauritz Melchior, Danish-born American opera singer (b. 1890)
1976 - James McCartney, father of Paul McCartney, dies at 73
1976 - Robert de Roos, composer, dies at 69
1985 - Jack Miller, orch leader (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 89
1988 - Billy Butterfield, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1917)
1995 - Charles Drain, singer, dies at 65
1995 - Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (Raskolnikov), dies at 84
2001 - John Phillips, American musician/songwriter (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1935)
2002 - Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (b. 1943)
2006 - Dan Gibson, musician (b. 1922)
Todays News
- Sweden’s Supreme Court rules in favor of late film director Vilgot Sjöman who had sued a TV channel for copyright infringement after it ran three commercial breaks during the director's film. (Dagens Nyheter)
- Wen Jiabao, the Premier of the People's Republic of China, claims the Chinese government exercised restraint in suppressing the 2008 unrest in Tibet. (Associated Press)
- David Paterson is sworn in as the first black Governor of New York (and the fourth ever in the U.S.) after Eliot Spitzer resigns amidst a prostitution scandal.
Other News bits from Today in History
37 - The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
1229 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.
1850 - American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
1893 - Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
1909 - Einar Dessau uses a short-wave radio transmitter, becoming the first radio broadcaster.
1937 - The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) outside Milan.
1959 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
1965 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
1989 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops.
1990 - In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
2005 - The first-ever Muslim Friday prayer led by a woman in a mixed-gender congregation is held in New York City, marking a break with a 1426-year Islamic tradition.
Holidays and Observances
- Aruba - Flag Day (1976)
- Ancient Latvia - Bindus Diena
- United States - National Biodiesel Day
- Mothers Day (Nigeria)
- Mexico - Expropiación Petrolera
- Turkey - Memorial Day for the martyrs of The Battle of Gallipoli
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