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Today in Music History
1767 - Mozart's opera "Apollo et Hyacinthus," premieres in Salzburg
1820 - Opera "Die Jagarsbraut" is completed
1848 - First performance of Finland's national anthem.
1932 - Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitch marries Nina Varsar
1941 - Willy Lewis' US jazz band performs in Switzerland
1943 - German occupiers confiscate all radios
1965 - Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction"
1966 - Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black"
1991 - "Michael Jackson: Magic and Madness" goes on sale
Births in Music
1842 - Arthur Seymour Sullivan, London England, composer (Gilbert and Sullivan)
1912 - Gil Evans, Canadian Keyboard player, Composer, Band Leader, Arranger (d. 1988)
1941 - Ritchie Valens, singer (Donna, La Bamba)
1950 - Stevie Wonder, American singer and musician
1950 - Peter Gabriel, singer, musician (Genesis-Against All Odds)
1735 - Horace Coignet, composer
1746 - Oliver Brownson, composer
1756 - Wojciech Zywny, composer
1776 - Charles Ots, composer
1776 - Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer
1847 - Johannes Haarklou, composer
1854 - Paul Klengel, composer
1859 - Eugust Enna, composer
1866 - Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer
1868 - Paolo Gallico, composer
1874 - Henry Clough-Leiter, composer
1876 - Raoul Laparra, composer
1881 - Ilona Durigo, Hungarian singer
1886 - Joseph Achron, Latvia/US violinist/composer (Golem suite)
1920 - Gareth Morris, British flautist (d. 2007)
1933 - Alden Ashforth, composer
1933 - Stig Gustav Schonberg, composer
1935 - Yizhak Sadai, composer
1935 - Nigel Butterley, composer
1935 - Dominic Cossa, American baritone
1937 - Judith Somogi, NYC, conductor (Frankfurt Opera-1982)
1940 - Richard Brooks, singer (Impressions)
1941 - Imca Marina, [Bijl], singer (Viva Espa¤a, Bella Italia, Oh Brazil)
1941 - Joe Brown, singer/guitarist
1942 - Jim Douglas, jazz guitarist
1943 - Mary Wells, Detroit, singer (My Guy)
1945 - Magic Dick, [Richard Salwitz], harmonicaist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1946 - Danny Klein, NYC, rock bassist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1947 - Pete "Overend" Watts, rock bassist (Mott The Hoople-All Young Dudes)
1950 - Danny Kirwan, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
1951 - Paul Thompson, British rock drummer (Roxy Music)
1954 - Johnny Logan, Irish singer and songwriter
1956 - Darius Rucker, lead vocalist (Hootie and the Blowfish-Let Her Cry)
1963 - Julian Brookhouse, rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Your Distance)
1965 - Tasmin Little, English violinist
1965 - Lari White, American country music singer
1967 - Chuck Schuldiner, American musician (Death, Control Denied) (d. 2001)
1967 - Melanie Thornton, African American German pop singer, former member of La Bouche. (d. 2001)
1968 - Alison Goldfrapp, English musician
1968 - Buckethead, Guitarist
1968 - PMD, American rapper
1969 - André Schmechta, German musician (X Marks the Pedwalk)
1977 - Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer
1979 - Michael Madden, American musician (Maroon 5)
1980 - Mau Marcelo, Filipino singer
1983 - Casey Donovan, Australian singer
1983 - Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
Deaths in Music
1732 - Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer, dies at 72
1787 - Johann Michael Malzat, composer, dies at 38
1793 - Martin Gerbert, composer, dies at 72
1812 - Johann Matthias Sperger, composer, dies at 62
1871 - Daniel Auber, French composer (b. 1782)
1873 - Kaspar Masek, composer, dies at 79
1892 - Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer, dies at 63
1931 - Josif Marinkovic, composer, dies at 79
1942 - Hyam Greenbaum, composer, dies at 41
1945 - Tubby Hall, American musician (b. 1895)
1971 - Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer, dies 67
1975 - Bob Wills, American musician (b. 1905)
1981 - Carl Weinrich, composer, dies at 76
1982 - Kara Abulfazogli Karayev, composer, dies at 64
1982 - Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer, dies at 74
1988 - Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter, fell to death out of a hotel window at 59
1991 - Jimmy McPartland, jazz cornetist, dies of cancer at 83
1992 - Floyd Arceneaux, trumpeter, dies at 58
2006 - Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (b. 1949)
Today in the News from One Year ago
2008 Sichuan earthquake:
- The death toll from the earthquake reaches 12,000. (CNN)
- The government launches a massive rescue operation to search for survivors. (BBC News)
Cyclone Nargis:
- The State Peace and Development Council continues to block foreign aid workers from entering Burma. (BBC News).
- The United Nations call for the opening of an air corridor to bring aid to the victims. (BBC News)
- Ministers from Nawaz Sharif's party Pakistan Muslim League (N) resign from the Government of Pakistan. (BBC News)
- West Virginia voters go to the polls in the Democratic Party primary to elect 28 delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention. (BBC News)
- Eleven people are killed and 20 injured in clashes between militias and the United States Army in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq. (BBC News)
- Colombia extradites 14 former paramilitary leaders, including Salvatore Mancuso, Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, and Diego Murillo Bejarano, to the United States where they have been charged with drug trafficking. (BBC News)
News on this Day in History
1607 - The Jamestown Settlement, the first permanent English settlement in North America, is founded.
1787 - Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with eleven ships full of convicts (First Fleet) to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1830 - Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
1861 - The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
1880 - In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1888 - With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
1939 - The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
1950 - The first round of the Formula 1 World Championship is held at Silverstone.
1958 - The trade mark Velcro is registered.
Holidays and Observances
- Commemoration of Julian of Norwich (Anglican).
- Roman Empire - Feast of the Lemures.
- Abbotsbury Garland Day, Dorset, England.
- Rotuma Day in Fiji.
- Our Lady of Fatima
Saints of the Christian Church:
- Abban the Hermit
- Saint Servatus
- Saint Robert Bellarmine
- Saint Gerald of Villamagna
- Saint John the Silent
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