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Today In Music History
1808 - 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard
1831 - Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan
1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata," premieres in Venice
1959 - Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)
1970 - Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK
Births in Music
1844 - Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov, composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee)
1925 - Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
1944 - Mary Wilson, Detroit, Mich, vocalist (Supremes-Where Did Our Love Go)
1944 - David Jon Gilmore, Cambridge, England, guitarist (Pink Floyd)
1616 - Malachias Siebenhaar, composer
1710 - Giuseppi Antonio Paganelli, composer
1763 - Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer
1779 - Philipp Roth, composer
1785 - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer
1793 - Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer
1835 - Ludwik Grossman, composer
1843 - Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer
1852 - Joseph Bayer, composer
1870 - Oscar Straus, Vienna Austria, composer (Ein Walzertraum)
1887 - Henri Gagnon, composer
1890 - Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator/theory (Orfeo)
1893 - Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (d. 1981)
1897 - Knudege Riisager, Port Kunda Estonia, Danish composer (Quaarrtsiluni)
1898 - Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano (Mattheus Passion)
1904 - Joseph Schmidt, Austrian tenor (d. 1942)
1905 - Bob Wills, American singer (d. 1975)
1911 - Roland Jacobi Leich, composer
1914 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)
1921 - Julius Rudel, Vienna Austria, conductor (NYC Opera 1957)
1923 - Erhard Karkoschka, composer
1926 - Miroslav Klega, composer
1926 - Jon Nordal, composer
1927 - Norman Treigle, American bass-baritone (d. 1975)
1928 - Ronald Stevenson, composer
1930 - Lorin Maazel, French-born American conductor
1931 - Carmen Delavallade, US dancer/singer/actress (Aida)
1933 - Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer
1937 - Paul Mefano, composer
1938 - Lovelace Watkins, singer
1939 - Jerry Naylor, Stephenville Tx, rock vocalist (Crickets)
1944 - Kiri Te Kanawa, Gisborne NZ, operatic soprano (Don Giovanni)
1945 - Hugh Grundy, Winchester England, drummer (Zombies-She's Not There)
1946 - Tony Klatka, rocker (Blood, Sweat and Tears)
1947 - Kiki Dee, Yorkshire England, singer (Don't Go Breaking My Heart)
1949 - Donald York, rocker (Sha Na Na)
1963 - Suzanne Crough, rocker (Partridge Family)
1964 - Reniet Vrieze, rock singer/guitarist (Pilgrims-White Men)
1964 - Skip Ewing, American country music singer and songwriter
1964 - Madonna Wayne Gacy, American musician
1968 - Michael Romeo, American musician (Symphony X)
1992 - Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese singer
Deaths in Music
1753 - Gerhardus Havingha, composer, dies at 56
1851 - Alexander Aliabiev, composer, dies at 63
1860 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
1867 - Wiktor Kazynski, composer, dies at 54
1932 - John Philip Sousa, US composer (Stars and Stripes Forever), dies at 77
1936 - Rubin Goldmark, composer, dies at 63
1936 - Josef Stransky, composer, dies at 63
1945 - Rudolph Karel, composer, dies at 64
1947 - Ludwig Weber, composer, dies at 55
1951 - Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893)
1954 - Louis Zimmermann, violinist, dies at 80
1961 - George Formby, British singer/comedian, dies at 56
1962 - Rezso Kokai, composer, dies at 56
1965 - Ruvim Pergament, composer, dies at 58
1966 - Richard Hageman, composer, dies at 83
1967 - Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian composer (Hary Janos), dies at 84
1967 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901)
1968 - Isa Krejci, composer, dies at 63
1971 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (b. 1921)
1973 - Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 72
1984 - Pierre Cochereau, composer, dies at 59
1988 - Konstantin Iliev, composer, dies at 63
1994 - Leighton Noble, singer/Bandleader, dies at 81
1994 - Moses Rascoe, blues singer, dies at 77
1995 - Delroy George Wilson, singer, dies at 46
1996 - Herbert "Herb" Hall, clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 88
2006 - King Floyd, American musician (b. 1945)
Todays News
- Victor Bout, one of the world’s most notorious arms dealers, is arrested at a hotel in Tailand. (New York Times)
- Paul Burrell, Princess Diana's butler, refuses to be questioned about whether he lied to the inquest into her death in 1997. (Reuters)
- A small explosion causes damage to the door of a U.S. military recruiting center in Times Square, New York City. A small device is thrown at the single-story building at 3:45 a.m. EST, breaking a window. (Reuters
- Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is named the richest person in the world by Forbes magazine. (Forbes)
- Saudi Arabia announces plans to execute a Canadian man and a Saudi friend convicted of murder by beheading them in public. (Arab News)
News on this day in History
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
1834 - York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
1899 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
1902 - The Spanish football club Real Madrid is founded.
1927 - Fritz Lang's Metropolis is released.
1964 - Prophet Elijah Muhammad officially gives Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali meaning "beloved of Allah".
1964 - Tom O'Hara sets a new world record for the indoor mile run by completing it in 3 minutes, 56.4 seconds.
1981 - After 19 years presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
1983 - The United States Football League begins its first year of competition.
1997 - Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later.
2007 - United States lottery Mega Millions set a new world record for the highest jackpot ever offered of US$390 million.
Holidays and Observances
Ghana - Independence Day (from Britain, 1957)
Texas - Alamo Day
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