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Today in Music History
1866 - Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)
1964 - Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia
1964 - Beatles' "Love Me Do," single goes #1
1968 - Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles" (aka The White Album)
1975 - Wings release "Venus and Mars" album
Births in Music
1909 - Benny Goodman, Chicago, clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing)
1942 - Lenny Davidson, London, rock guitarist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
1964 - Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1578 - Valentin Dretzel, composer
1797 - Johann Christian Lobe, composer
1808 - Joaquim Casimiro Jr, composer
1844 - Louis Varney, composer
1853 - Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer
1858 - Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941)
1883 - Riccardo Zandonai, composer
1887 - Gino Tagliapietra, composer
1913 - Cedric Thorpe Davie, composer
1914 - Bobby Sherwood, Indianapolis Ind, orch leader (Milton Berle Show)
1925 - Claude Prey, composer
1932 - Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi, composer
1932 - Pauline Oliveros, Houston Texas, composer and accordionist (Sound Patterns)
1936 - Galina Shostakovitch, daughter of Russian composer Dmitri
1951 - Zdravko Čolić, Yugoslav-Bosnian singer
1952 - Zoltan Kocsis, composer
1955 - Nicky "Topper" Headon, English drummer (Clash-Complete Control)
1957 - Chris Van Jaarsveld, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
1958 - Marie Fredriksson, Ostra-Lj, Sweden, singer and songwriter (Roxette)
1960 - Stephen "Tea Tower" Duffy, rocker (Lilac Time-Paradise Song)
1964 - Wynonna, [Christina Judd], Ashland Ky, singer (Judds-Why Not Me)
1966 - Stephen Malkmus, American musician (Pavement)
1968 - Tim Burgess, English rock vocalist (Charlatans-Only One I Know)
1971 - Idina Menzel, American actress and singer
1974 - Cee-Lo, American musician
1974 - Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
1981 - Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter
1989 - Kevin Covais, American singer
Deaths in Music
1746 - Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69
1791 - Ildephons Haas, composer, dies at 56
1797 - Carl Ludwig Junker, composer, dies at 48
1833 - Josef Slavik, composer, dies at 27
1870 - Gustave Vogt, composer, dies at 89
1906 - William Yeates Hurlstone, composer, dies at 30
1923 - Camille Chevillard, composer, dies at 63
1935 - Lothar Windsperger, composer, dies at 49
1947 - Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer, dies at 72
1953 - Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)
1959 - Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer, dies at 85
1969 - Gaston Brenta, composer, dies at 66
1969 - John Cipollini, guitarist, dies of ephysema at 45
1971 - Marcel Dupree, French organist and composer, dies at 85
1972 - Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer, dies at 104
1973 - Hal Hastings, orch leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66
1977 - Paul Desmond, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 52
1980 - Carl Radle, bassist (Derek and Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment
1986 - Hank Mobley, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 55
1987 - Turk Murphy, jazz trombonist, dies at 71
1989 - Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83
1992 - Leen 't Hart, organist/composer, dies at 72
1993 - Herman S Blount, aka Sun Ra, US jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra), dies at 79
1996 - Bob Stroup, trombonist, dies at 57
1996 - John Kahn, bassist, dies at 47
2000 - Tex Beneke, American bandleader, singer, and saxophone player (b. 1914)
Today in the News
- Prime Minister of Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski, states the country will not trade its name for EU or NATO membership. Greece vetoed Macedonia's NATO membership at the Bucharest summit and threatened to block Macedonia's EU entry as well if the name dispute is not resolved. (Southeast European Times)
- Kosovo delegation attends a European Parliament session for first time since declaring independence from Serbia. (Southeast European Times)
- Morocco plans to introduce Daylight Saving Time on 1 June 2008 to both align its time zone with regional and international partners and reduce power consumption. (Magharebia)
-Iraq delivers a report on security, reconstruction, and economic progress at the U.N. conference on Iraq in Stockholm. Iraq seeks debt forgiveness and foreign investment to aid with reconstruction. (Mawtani) (VOA)
- Cyclone Nargis:
-Burma grants visas to international relief workers, but are preventing many from traveling to the Irrawaddy Delta, one of the hardest areas hit by Cyclone Nargis. (VOA)
- The pro-military junta newspaper New Light of Myanmar criticises foreign aid for victims of Cyclone Nargis stating that they could survive from eating frogs and fish in the Irrawaddy River delta. (AFP)
- The United Nations marks 60 years of international peacekeeping operations. (VOA) (United Nations)
- 2008 Sichuan earthquake: China begins inspecting the ruins of thousands of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake, searching for clues about why they crumbled. (VOA)
- Somalia's Eritrea-based opposition splits after hard-line Islamist leader Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys seeks to remove moderate Islamist Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed as chairman. (VOA)
- The Texas Supreme Court rules that 416 children taken from the YFZ Ranch should be returned. (AP via Bloomberg)
- Gujjar protesters in New Delhi halts traffic to enforce blockade on Indian's capital seeking ethnic classification with preferential access to government jobs and educational institutions. (VOA)
- The FBI is investigating after a net flooding assault takes down legitimate video website Revision3. Company officials accuse MediaDefender. (The Register)
- Archaeologists say England's Stonehenge was a burial ground. (The Washington Post)
- 19,000 auto workers accept buyout at G.M. (The New York Times)
News from this Day in History
1539 - In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
1832 - The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
1911 - At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
1922 - In Washington, D.C. the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
1967 - At the Ascot Park in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined up in a row.
Holidays and Observances
- Region Day of Canary Islands
- Geologist's Day (in Brazil)
- Trinidad and Tobago – Indian Arrival Day (National Holiday).
- United States – Memorial Day (originally – currently last Monday in May).
- Anguilla - "Anguilla Day"; Commemorates the beginning of the Anguillian Revolution which took place on May 30th, 1967.
- Saint Ferdinand III
- Saint Isaac of Dalmatia
- Saint Joan of Arc
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