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Today in Music History
1972 - Official Beatles Fan Club, closes down
1978 - Wings release "London Town" album
1981 - 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: Can't Stop the Music wins
1982 - Rock group Doobie Brothers split up
1996 - Radio Canada International's final shortwave broadcast
Births in Music
1732 - Franz Joseph Haydn, Austria, composer, help develop classical style
1908 - Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999)
1935 - Herb Alpert, bandleader/trumpeteer (Tijuana Brass)/CEO (A and M)
1948 - Mick Ralphs, English guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
1959 - Angus Young, Glascow Scotland, rock guitarist (AC/DC-Highway to Hell)
1684 - Francesco Durante, composer
1717 - Florian Wrastill, composer
1747 - Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer (Moon has Risen)
1791 - Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer
1809 - Otto Jonas Lindblad, composer
1822 - Rafael Hernando, composer
1847 - Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer
1848 - John Henry Roberts, composer
1887 - Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer
1891 - Erich Walter Sternberg, composer
1893 - Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (d. 1954)
1906 - Lauri Saikkola, composer
1911 - Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (d. 1986)
1915 - Eliseo Morales Pajaro, composer
1928 - Lefty Frizzell, American singer and songwriter (d. 1975)
1934 - John D Loudermilk, rock drummer/vocalist (Language of Love, Norman)
1934 - Shirley Jones, American singer and actress
1937 - Willem Duyn, [Mouth], Dutch singer (Mouth and MacNeal)
1944 - Pascal Danel, French singer and songwriter
1944 - Rod Allen, [B Rodney Bainbridge] rock bassist/vocalist (Fortunes)
1946 - Al Nichol, Winston Salem NC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Turtles)
1947 - Al Goodman, rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown)
1947 - Jon-Jon Poulos, Chicago Ill, rocker (Buckinghams)
1948 - Thijs van Leer, Dutch singer/flutist (Focus, Introspection)
1950 - Richard Hughes, rocker (Johnny Winter Band)
1953 - Greg Martin, Louisville Ky, singer (Ky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1953 - Sean Hopper, Calif, rock keyboardist (Huey Lewis and The News)
1954 - Tony Brock, England, rock drummer (Babys-Missing You)
1958 - Pat McGlynn, Edinburgh, rock guitarist (Bay City Rollers)
1959 - Ali McMordie, Irish bassist (Stiff Little Fingers)
1964 - Erik Turner, Omaha Nebraska, rock guitarist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1964 - Paul Wong Koon-Chung, Hong Kong musician (Beyond)
1974 - Stefan Olsdal, Swedish bassist (Placebo)
1977 - Toshiya, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
1978 - Tony Yayo, American rapper
1982 - Lennon Murphy, American rock singer/songwriter
1987 - Georg Listing, Bassist of Tokio Hotel
Deaths in Music
1656 - Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 64
1703 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1642)
1809 - Franz Joseph Haydn, composer, dies on 77th birthday
1880 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violist/composer, dies at 44
1881 - Gaetano Gaspari, composer, dies at 73
1885 - Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor, dies at 65
1885 - Philipp Fahrbach, composer, dies at 69
1886 - Giovanni Rossi, composer, dies at 57
1892 - Adolf Rzepko, composer, dies at 66
1901 - John Stainer, composer, dies at 60
1960 - Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81
1967 - Hieronim Feicht, composer, dies at 72
1973 - Kurt George Hugo Thomas, composer, dies at 68
1986 - O'Kelly Isley, US, singer (Isley Brothers), dies of heart attack at 48
1988 - Talib Rasul Hakim, composer, dies at 48
1991 - John Carter, US jazz clarinetist (Roots and folklore)
1995 - Selena, Mexican Grammy winning singer, killed by a fan at 24
1996 - Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club), dies at 37
2003 - Tommy Seebach, Danish singer (b. 1949)
2006 - Jackie McLean, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1931 or 1932)
Todays News
- The Italian city of Milan will host the 2015 World Exposition (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
- War in Somalia (2008): Somali Islamists have seized control of a central town after clashes with government forces that left 11 people dead, residents and Islamists said. (France 24)
- French liquor group Pernod Ricard is buying Vin & Sprit, the maker of Absolut Vodka, for SEK 55 billion ($9.24 billion). (MarketWatch)
- The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission starts releasing results of the Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2008 and Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008 with the Opposition Movement for Democratic Change claiming victory on the basis of unofficial results. (BBC)
- French architect Jean Nouvel wins one of the world's premier architecture honors, the Pritzker Prize. (New York Times)
News on this Day in History
1146 - Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
1492 - Queen Isabella of Castille orders her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1717 - A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy.
1889 - The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated.
1903 - Richard Pearse alledgedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
1917 - The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
1918 - Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
1930 - The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next thirty eight years.
1949 - The Dominion of Newfoundland joins Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
1951 - The first commercial United States made computer, the UNIVAC I, is delivered to the United States Census Bureau.
1959 - The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
1970 - Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit).
1994 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
2007 - In Sydney, Australia 2.2 million people take part in the first Earth Hour.
Holidays and Observances
New Jersey - Thomas Mundy Peterson Day
Malta - Freedom Day
Abdas of Susa
Anesius and companions
Cesar Chavez Day
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