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Today in Music History
1858 - Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London
1891 - Jules Massenets opera "Griselde," premieres in Paris
1914 - Henri Rabauds opera "Marouf, Savetier de Caire," premieres in Paris
1941 - Nazi occupiers in Neth forbid Jewish music
1961 - "Bonanza" by Al Caiola Orchestra hits #19
1967 - Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman
1968 - Paul McCartney and John Lennon appear on Johnny Carson Show to promote Apple records, Joe Garagiola is substitute host
1970 - Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," is released in US
1976 - Fonz Song by Heyettes hits #91
Births in Music
1918 - Eddy Arnold, Henderson TN, country singer (Cattle Call, Anytime)
1937 - Trini Lopez, Trinidad, singer/guitarist (If I Had a Hammer)
1947 - Graham Goble, Adelaide,Australia, rock guitarist (Little River Band)
1983 - Devin Bronson, American guitarist (Avril Lavigne)
1567 - Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, Cremona Italy, composer (L'Orfeo)
1754 - Pierre Dutillieu, composer
1759 - Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer
1764 - Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer
1807 - Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, composer
1808 - Gottfried Herrmann, composer
1808 - Michael William Balfe, composer
1813 - Stephen Heller, composer
1841 - Giovanni Bolzoni, composer
1873 - Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs
1878 - Francisco Pujol, composer
1883 - Stanley Robert Marchant, composer
1893 - Michel Gusikoff, composer
1907 - Josef Alexander, composer
1908 - Lars-Eric Vilner Larsson, Akarp Sweden, composer (Linden)
1909 - Rodolfo Cornejo, composer
1912 - Arthur Victor Berger, NYC, composer (Ideas of Order)
1914 - Pierre Froidebise, composer
1915 - Gus Viseur, French button accordionist (d. 1974)
1923 - John Lanchbery, English composer (d. 2003)
1925 - Andrey Yakoulevich Eshpay, composer
1925 - Emmanuel Ghent, composer
1926 - Clermont Pepin, composer
1936 - Jean Balissat, composer
1938 - Lenny Welch, American singer
1940 - Lainie Kazan, American actress and singer
1941 - Richard Edward Wilson, composer
1941 - K. T. Oslin, Crossett Ar, country singer (80's Ladies)
1944 - Tich, rocker
1945 - Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer
1948 - Brian Eno, Woodbridge England, rock keyboardist/singer (On Land)
1951 - Dennis Frederiksen, rocker (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
1953 - Mike Oldfield, England, composer (Tubular Bells)
1959 - Andrew Eldritch, English singer and songwriter (Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet)
1962 - Melle Mel, American musician
1966 - Pete Wiggs, English musician (Saint Etienne)
1968 - Seth Putnam, American musician
1970 - Martin Rossiter, Welsh Musician
1974 - Ahmet Rodan Zappa, son of Frank/rocker (Z, 2 Hip 4 TV)
1982 - Jessica Sutta, American dancer, singer and actress (The Pussycat Dolls)
1987 - Jennylyn Mercado, Filipina Actress and Singer
Deaths in Music
1609 - Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557)
1746 - Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer, dies at 67
1785 - Karel Blazej Kopriva, composer, dies at 29
1821 - John Wall Calcott, composer, dies at 54
1822 - Christian Ludwig Dieter, composer, dies at 64
1823 - Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer, dies at 69
1824 - Alexander Campbell, composer, dies at 60
1832 - Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer, dies at 73
1872 - Thomas Hastings, composer, dies at 87
1952 - Italo Montemezzi, composer, dies at 76
1967 - Jaromir Fiala, composer, dies at 74
1989 - John Waldo Green, composer, dies at 80
1991 - Bud Freeman, jazz tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 84
1994 - Frederik baron van Pallandt, Danish singer (Nina and F), murdered at 61
1995 - Johnny Van Derrick, jazz violinist, dies at 68
1995 - Perry Lederman, folk singer, dies at 52
2003 - June Carter Cash, American musician and singer (b. 1929)
Todays News from One Year ago
- The death toll from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake reaches nearly 20,000. (BBC News)
- The State Peace and Development Council in Myanmar claims that the Burmese constitutional referendum, 2008 approved a new constitution of Myanmar with a 92.4% majority. (AFP)
- Democrat Marc Dann resigns as the Ohio Attorney General following a sexual harassment scandal involving several of his aides and an admitted affair with a subordinate. (Akron Beacon Journal)
- United States presidential election, 2008: John Edwards, a former contender to be the Democratic Party nominee, endorses the bid of Barack Obama. (BBC News)
- The United States Department of the Interior declares that the polar bear is a threatened species due to declining levels of Arctic Ocean ice as a result of global warming. (AP via The New York Times)
- A suicide bomber kills at least 22 people and injures 40 in an attack on a funeral in a village west of Baghdad. (AP via Yahoo! News) (BBC News)
Israel
- The Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert warns Hamas that Israel will "not tolerate" attacks. (AP via Google News)
- The President of the United States George W. Bush starts a trip to the Middle East where he will celebrate Israel's sixtieth anniversary and meet with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. (BBC News)
- A Katyusha rocket fired at the Israeli city of Ashqelon struck a clinic in the third floor of the Huzot shopping mall. This attack resulted in three people seriously injured, two moderately injured and eleven people suffered minor wounds. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claims responsibility. (Haaretz)
- NATO raises concerns about an increase in insurgent attacks in Afghanistan and raises concern that it is partly due to agreements between Pakistan and militants in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. (Reuters)
News on this Day in History
1514 - Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.
1602 - Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to see Cape Cod.
1618 - Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.
1793 - Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted flights.
1817 - Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1836 - Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
1891 - Rerum Novarum, the first document of the Catholic Social Teaching tradition, is published by Pope Leo XIII.
1905 - Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.4 km²), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
1919 - The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00 a.m., almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job.
1940 - McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
1941 - Baseball player Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees starts his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak.
1963 - Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space.
1970 - President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.
1990 - Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million, the most expensive painting at the time.
1991 - Edith Cresson becomes France's first female prime minister.
Holidays and Observances
- International Conscientious Objectors' Day.
- Paraguay - Independence Day. Celebrations for the anniversary of the independence begin on Flag Day, 14 May.
- Roman Empire - Mercuralia in honor of Mercury held.
- Buddha's Birthday in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and South Korea (2005).
- United States - Peace Officers Memorial Day.
- Slovenia - Day of Slovenian armed forces.
- Teacher's Day in Mexico (Día del Maestro) and South Korea (스승의 날).
- Nakba Day in Palestinian communities.
In the Roman Catholic Church:
- Saint Achillius
- Saint Isidore the Labourer
- Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
- Saint Reticius
- Saint Denise
- Saint Dymphna
- Saint Hallvard (in Norway)
In the Coptic Church:
- Athanasius of Alexandria
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