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Today in Music History
1913 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
1942 - Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas album in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles.
1976 - "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash hits #29
1977 - NBC News and Information Service (24 hr news) ends on radio
1987 - Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains
Births in Music
1953 - Danny Elfman, LA Calif, musician/composer (Simpson's Show Theme)
1955 - Mike Porcaro, American rock bassist (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
1961 - Melissa Etheridge, American musician
1969 - Chan Kinchla, Canadian musician (Blues Traveler)
1983 - Rama Claproth, Indonesian blues guitarist
1730 - William Jackson, composer
1731 - Orazio Mei, composer
1741 - Johann Gottfried Krebs, composer
1791 - Pietro Romani, composer
1837 - Luca Fumagalli, composer
1843 - Emile Pessard, composer
1852 - Jindrich z Albestu Kaan, composer
1860 - Isaac [Manuel F] Albéniz, Spanish pianist/composer (Iberia)
1868 - Frederic baron d'Erlanger, French composer/banker
1881 - Frederik Septimus Kelly, composer
1883 - William Beatton Moonie, composer
1890 - Francis de Bourguignon, composer
1897 - Ignace Lilien, composer
1897 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (d. 1957)
1905 - Fela Sowande, composer
1906 - Hans Joachim Schaeuble, composer
1915 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
1922 - Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect, major contributor to musical modernism (d. 2001)
1933 - Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
1937 - Peter Kolman, composer
1937 - Irmin Schmidt, German musician (Can)
1941 - Roy Crewsdon, Manchester, rocker (Freddie and The Dreamers)
1945 - Mike Rossi, rocker (Status Quo)
1948 - Linda Esther Gray, opera singer
1949 - Francis Rossi, guitarist (Status Quo-Picture of a Matchstick Man)
1949 - Gary Brooker, rock keyboardist (Procol Harum)
1950 - Rebbie [Maureen] Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (R U Tuff Enuff)
1953 - Rick Henderson, Beaumont Tx, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around)
1955 - Jerry Dengler, Colo Springs, singer (Mason Dixon-Karen Comes Around)
1956 - Greg R, rocker (Bad)
1956 - Larry Blackmon, rocker (Cameo-Alligator Woman)
1956 - LaToya Jackson, American musician
1959 - Mel Gaynor, Glasgow Scotland, rock drummer (Simple Minds-Water Front)
1961 - David Palmer, heavy metal drummer (ABC, AC/DC)
1963 - Blaze Bayley, British singer (ex-Iron Maiden)
1967 - Noel Gallagher, pop musician and member of Oasis
1973 - Mark Lee, American musician (guitarist for Third Day)
1975 - Melanie Janine Brown, Leeds, England,"Scary Spice", vocalist (Spice Girls)
1976 - David Buckner, American musician (Papa Roach)
1978 - Pelle Almqvist, Swedish musician (The Hives)
1982 - Joanne Borgella, American plus-sized model and singer
Deaths in Music
1680 - Abraham Megerle, composer, dies at 73
1750 - Giuseppe Porsile, composer, dies at 70
1833 - William Marshall, composer, dies at 84
1862 - Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki, composer, dies at 71
1899 - Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer, dies at 60
1905 - Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer, dies at 55
1910 - Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Russian composer (Islamej), dies at 73
1935 - Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer, dies at 61
1943 - Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer, dies at 72
1951 - Robert Kahn, composer, dies at 85
1951 - Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer, dies at 91
1951 - Dimitrios Levidis, composer, dies at 66
1951 - Fanny Brice, American singer/comedian (b. 1891)
1957 - George Bacovia [Vasiliu], Romanian poet/composer (Plumb), dies at 75
1961 - Uuno Kalervo Klami, composer, dies at 60
1967 - Geronimo Baqueiro Foster, composer, dies at 69
1971 - Max Trapp, composer, dies at 83
1973 - P. Ramlee, Malaysian film actor, director, singer and songwriter. (b. 1929)
1977 - Goddard Lieberson, composer, dies at 66
1989 - John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)
1992 - Peter John "Ollie" Halsall, guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 43
1994 - Oliver "Bops Junior" Jackson, drummer, dies at 61
1996 - James George "Jimmy" Rowles, jazz pianist, dies at 77
1997 - Jeff Buckley, American musician, drowns at 30
2005 - George Rochberg, American composer (b. 1918)
Today in the News
- At least 20 people are killed and 42 injured after two suicide bombings in northern Iraq. (AFP via Google News)
- A bomb at the Edwin Andrews Air Base in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines kills two people and injures another 17. (BBC News)
- Hu Jintao, the President of the People's Republic of China calls for resumption of official talk between the People's Republic of China and Taiwan in a meeting with Wu Po-hsiung, the Chairman of Taiwan's ruling party the Kuomintang. (CNN)
- Twenty-one people are dead and 100 missing as a result of snowstorms in eastern Mongolia. (The Scotsman)
- Engineers announce that the Leaning Tower of Pisa has been stabilized for the first time, and will remain stable for 200 more years. (BBC News)
- Paleontologists discover Materpiscis, a 380-million-year-old placoderm fish which is the earliest known animal to bear live young. (BBC News)
- The Governor of New York David Paterson directs New York state agencies to recognise gay marriages performed in other jurisdictions such as Canada, California and Massachusetts. (The New York Times)
- In Dublin, over 100 countries, though not including the United States, Russia, or China, agree to the Convention on Cluster Munitions banning cluster bombs. (RTÉ) (AFP via Yahoo! News)
- Ehud Barak, the Defense Minister of Israel and Leader of the Labor Party, calls for the resignation of the Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert to step aside to face corruption allegations. (AP via Google News)
- The Majlis of Iran elects Ali Larijani as its new Speaker. (AFP via Google News)
News from Today in History
1886 - Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal.
1919 - Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.
1950 - St. Roch, first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay are the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
1964 - The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian situation in Israel, leading to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
1968 - Manchester United win the European Cup, the first English Club to do so.
1985 - Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
1999 - Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
2001 - U.S. Supreme Court rules that disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
Holidays and Observances
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
Bahá'í Faith: Ascension of Bahá'u'llah
Nigeria: Democracy Day
United Kingdom: Oak Apple Day.
- Blessed Adhemar
- Saint Erwin
- Saint Maximinus of Trier
- Saint Theodosia
- Saint Alexander of Alexandria
- Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat
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