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Today in Music History
1973 - Beatles' "Beatles 1967-1970," album goes #1
1994 - Michael Jackson (35) weds Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley (26)
Births in Music
1886 - Al Jolson, American singer (d. 1950)
1938 - Teresa Stratas,[Anastasia Stratakis], Toronto, Canada, soprano,(Salome)
1945 - Garry Peterson, Canadian drummer (The Guess Who)
1591 - Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, composer
1773 - Hans Georg Nageli, composer
1782 - Joseph Drechsler, composer
1825 - Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza, composer
1846 - Arthur Coquard, composer
1853 - Monroe A Althouse, composer
1856 - George Templeton Strong, composer
1883 - Mamie Smith, American singer (d. 1946)
1893 - Eugène Aynsley Goossens, London, England, conductor/composer (Perseus)
1898 - Ernst Bacon, composer
1898 - Gerard Bertouille, composer
1904 - George Formby, English singer and comedian (d. 1961)
1904 - Vlado Perlemuter, Polish pianist (d. 2002)
1905 - Hans Holewa, composer
1908 - Malando, [Arie Maasland], composer/orchestra leader (Ol‚ Guapa)
1916 - Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (d. 1999)
1920 - Peggy Lee, [Norma Egstrom], Jamestown ND, singer (Thats All There Is?)
1924 - Victor Herbert, Irish/US composer (Kiss in Dark)
1926 - Maria de Lourdes Martins, composer
1926 - Miles Davis, Alton Ill, jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader (L'ascenseur pour l'‚chafaud)
1937 - Yehuda Yannay, composer
1938 - Jackie Liebesit, rocker (Can)
1938 - William Elden Bolcom, Seattle Washington, composer (Oracles)
1941 - Imants Kalnins, composer
1942 - Levon Helm, drummer/singer (Band)
1944 - Verden "Phally" Allen, keyboardist (Mott the Hoople)
1946 - Stevie Nicks, Phoenix Az, rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Bella Donna)
1946 - Mick Ronson, English musician (d. 1993)
1949 - Hank Williams Jr, Shreveport La, country singer (Honky Tonk)
1952 - David Meece, Christian musician
1957 - Kristina Olsen, American musician
1959 - Beverly Lee, rocker
1959 - Wayne Hussey, rocker (Mission-Lover for Life)
1959 - Steve Hanley, English musician (The Fall, Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
1962 - Colin Vearncombe, English singer (Black-Wonderful Like)
1964 - Lenny Kravitz, singer/guitarist
1976 - Justin Pierre, American singer (Motion City Soundtrack)
1977 - Mark Hunter, American musician (Chimaira)
1978 - Phil Elverum, American singer-songwriter
1981 - Eda-Ines Etti, Estonian singer
1981 - Irini Merkouri, Greek singer
Deaths in Music
1703 - Samuel Pepys, English marine expert (Diary)/composer, dies at 70
1832 - Francois-Louis Perne, composer, dies at 59
1871 - Aime Maillart, composer, dies at 54
1873 - August Conradi, composer, dies at 51
1880 - John Curwen, composer, dies at 63
1891 - Frederick Bowen Jewson, composer, dies at 67
1912 - Jan Blockx, Belgian opera composer (Bride of the Sea), dies at 61
1924 - Johann Heinrich Beck, composer, dies at 67
1924 - Victor Herbert, Irish/US cellist/composer/conductor, dies at 65
1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, country singer, dies at 35
1950 - Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Bolshoi Theater), dies
1968 - William E "Little Willie" John, US RandB-singer (Fever), dies at 30)
1977 - William Powell, American singer (The O'Jays) (b. 1942)
1993 - Cor de Great, pianist/conductor/composer (Vernissage), dies at 78
1994 - Sonny Sharrock, US free-jazz guitarist, dies at 53
1994 - Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock, jazz Guitarist, dies at 53
1995 - Ron Weatherburn, jazz pianist, dies at 61
1996 - Matima Kinuani Mpiosso, musician, dies at 45
1999 - Paul Sacher, Swiss conductor (b. 1906)
2007 - J Edward Oliver, cartoonist and composer (b. 1942)
Today in the News from One year ago
- Westpac signs an implementation agreement for its take over of the St George Bank creating the largest bank in Australia with a market capitalisation of $66 billion. (The Australian)
- Nepalese authorities ban rallies and mass meetings in Kathmandu prior to the first meeting of the Nepalese Constituent Assembly which is expected to declare Nepal a republic. (BBC News)
- The Phoenix lander arrives at Mars, landing successfully in the "Green Valley" region of Vastitas Borealis. (NASA)
- New Zealand driver Scott Dixon wins the 2008 Indianapolis 500 ahead of Vitor Meira. (AP via Google News)
- Laurent Cantet's film Entre les murs (The Class) wins the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. (Canadian Press via Google News)
- The former President of Malawi Bakili Muluzi is arrested in Lilongwe after returning from the United Kingdom in relation to an alleged coup attempt. (Reuters)
- Michel Suleiman is elected as President of the Republic of Lebanon. (BBC News)
News from this Day in History
451 - The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place. The Armenians are defeated militarily but are guaranteed freedom to openly practice Christianity.
1647 - Alse Young becomes the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged in Hartford, Connecticut.
1828 - Mysterious feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
1889 - Opening of the first Eiffel Tower elevator to the public.
1896 - Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1913 - Emily Duncan becomes the Britain's first woman magistrate.
1928 - The first motion picture is projected publicly in Athens, Greece.
1966 - British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
1972 - Willandra National Park is established in Australia.
1977 - George Willig climbs the South Tower of New York City's World Trade Center.
1978 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Resorts International, the first legal casino in the eastern United States, opens.
2002 - The Mars Odyssey finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars.
2003 - Only three days after a previous record, Sherpa Lakpa Gelu climbs Mount Everest in 10 hours 56 minutes. The tourism ministry of Nepal confirms this record in July that year.
Holidays and Observances
- Australia - National Sorry Day
- Poland - Mother's Day
- Georgia - National Day
in the Roman Catholic Church:
- Saint Augustine of Canterbury
- Saint Lambert (d. 1154)
- Saint Philip Neri (died 1595)
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