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Today in Music History
1796 - James S McLean patents his piano
1933 - The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
1957 - Toronto's 1050 CHUM AM becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.
1975 - Paul McCartney releases "Venus and Mars"
Births in Music
1891 - Claude Adonai Champagne, French-Canadian composer
1939 - Jerry Mercer, Canadian drummer (April Wine)
1945 - Bruce Cockburn, Ottawa, Canada, folk rock vocalist, guitarist
1946 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish bassist - played w/ Oscar Peterson (d. 2005)
1738 - Bonaventura Furlanetto, composer
1799 - Jacques-Francois-Fromental-Elle Halevy, [Elie Levy], composer
1806 - Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, composer
1819 - Julia Ward Howe, American composer (d. 1910)
1822 - Henry Wylde, composer
1822 - Josef Joachim Raff, composer
1849 - "Blind" Tom Bethune, pianist/composer
1884 - Bax Brod, composer
1888 - Louis Durey, French composer
1895 - Marij Kogoj, composer
1902 - Celius Dougherty, composer
1907 - Felix de Nobel, Dutch orchestra leader
1908 - Harold Rome, composer (Fanny, Pins and Needles)
1909 - Isador Goodman, composer
1914 - Hugh Le Caine, composer
1915 - Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini)
1921 - Redd Stewart, Ashland City Tn, guitarist/pianist (Pee Wee King Show)
1928 - Thea Musgrave, Barnton Midlothian Scot, composer (Mary Queen of Scots)
1929 - Donald Howard Keats, composer
1930 - Eino Tamberg, composer
1931 - Kenny Price, Florence Ky, country singer (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw)
1931 - Veroslav Neumann, composer
1932 - Jeffrey Bernard, singer
1935 - Elias Gistelinck, Flemish composer
1935 - Ramsey Lewis, American pianist
1939 - Don Williams, Floydada Texas, country singer (I Believe in You)
1940 - Rene Koering, composer
1942 - Priscilla Anne McLean, composer
1943 - Cilla Black, Liverpool England, rock vocalist (You're My World)
1944 - Alain Souchon, French singer and songwriter
1947 - Liana Alexandra, composer
1948 - Pete Sears, bassist (Jefferson Starship)
1951 - Ana Belén, Spanish singer and actress
1957 - Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
1958 - Neil Finn, New Zealand, singer, songwriter, musician
1966 - Sean Kinney, US rock drummer (Alice in Chains-We Die Young)
1971 - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, American singer (TLC) (d. 2002)
1972 - Ivete Sangalo, Brazilian singer
1974 - Derek Webb, American singer and songwriter (Caedmon's Call)
1975 - André 3000, American musician (OutKast)
1975 - Jadakiss, American rapper (The Lox)
1981 - Özgür Çevik, Turkish singer and actor
Deaths in Music
1638 - Nicolas Forme, composer, dies at 71
1652 - Jacques Huyn, composer, dies at 39
1690 - Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer, dies at 63
1708 - Jacques Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 51
1840 - Niccolo Paganini, Italian composer/violinist, dies at 57
1878 - Carlo Marsili, composer, dies at 49
1973 - P.Ramlee, Malaysian actor,singer and songwriter (b. 1922)
1983 - Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk, composer, dies at 67
1988 - Melvin J "Cy" Oliver, US jazz composer/orchestra leader, dies at 77
1992 - Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890)
1994 - Red Rodney, [Albino Red/The Red Arrow], bebop-trumpeter, dies at 66
1995 - C W Stubblefield, music Promoter, dies at 64
1995 - Ulyses Simpson Kay, composer, dies at 78
1996 - Albert "Pud" Brown, clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 79
1996 - Ivan Sutton, concert Promotoer, dies at 82
1996 - Pud Brown, jazz musician, dies at 79
2003 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer (b. 1925)
2007 - Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
Today in the News
- The S&P/Case-Shiller index shows a record annual decline in United States house prices of 14.1%. (CEP News)
- The State Peace and Development Council extends Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest indefinitely. (Xinhua)
- Police in Burma detain more than a dozen members of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy. (AP via Google News)
- The People's Republic of China evacuates 100,000 from Sichuan Province as engineers prepare to dynamite Tangjiashan Lake formed when landslides from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake dammed the Jianhe river. (CNN)
- Thabo Mbeki, the President of South Africa, leaves for Japan to attend a conference on African development despite concerns about the 2008 South African riots. AFP)
- The International Atomic Energy Agency releases a report accusing Iran of hiding information about alleged studies of producing nuclear warheads and defying demands to suspend its uranium enrichment. (AFP)
- China relaxes its one-child policy to allow parents of children killed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake to have another child. (Canadian Press via Google news)
- 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 A$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)
- A court in Ethiopia sentences former ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam to death for his role in the Red Terror.(BBC)
- Embattled Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Bernier resigns after admitting to having left confidential documents unsecured in a private home. (CBC)
News from this Day in History
1703 - Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1849 - The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
1927 - The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacturing the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make Ford Model As.
1930 - The 319 meter (1,046 feet) tall Chrysler Building in New York City (the tallest man-made structure at the time) opens to the public.
1937 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
1939 - DC Comics publishes its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most topical comic book superheroes of all time.
Holidays and Observances
- Mother's Day in Bolivia (Día de la Madre) and Sweden (Mors Dag)
- Children's Day in Nigeria
Feast day of the following saints in the Christian Church:
- Augustine of Canterbury
- Saint Julius the Veteran
- Pope John I
- Hildebert
- Bruno, Bishop of Würzburg
- Eutropius
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