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Today in Music History
1952 - 1st performance of John Cage's "Water Music"
1964 - Beatles' "Beatles' 2nd Album" goes #1 and stays #1 for for 5 weeks
Births in Music
1936 - Engelbert Humperdinck, Indian-born singer
1948 - Larry Gatlin, Seminole Tx, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady)
1950 - Lou Gramm, American rock vocalist and songwriter (Foreigner)
1978 - Steve Bays, Canadian musician
1660 - Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane)
1729 - Florian Johann Deller, composer
1752 - Ludwig August Lebrun, composer
1754 - Vicente Martin y Soler, composer
1810 - Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer
1817 - Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky, composer
1843 - Carl Michael Ziehrer, composer
1846 - Zygmunt Noskowski, composer
1855 - Theodore Moses Tobani, composer
1857 - Frederic Cliffe, composer
1859 - Eugene D'Harcourt, composer
1862 - Marie F M Emmanuel, French composer/musicologist (Salamine)
1897 - J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (d. 1985)
1903 - Oivin Fjeldstad, composer
1904 - Georgi Dimitrov, composer
1905 - Alan Rawsthorne, Haslingden England, composer (Corteges)
1906 - Maurice Thiriet, composer
1911 - Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist
1915 - Jan Hanus, composer
1915 - Van Alexander, NYC, orch leader (Gordon MacRae Show)
1915 - Doris Fisher, American songwriter (d. 2003)
1920 - Jacob Gilboa, composer
1920 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004)
1922 - Serge Reggiani, Italian-born French singer and actor (d. 2004)
1923 - Christina Spierenburg, Dutch singer
1924 - Theodore Bikel, Austrian-born actor and singer
1924 - Aafje Heynis, Dutch singer
1925 - Svatopluk Havelka, composer
1929 - Edward Levy Irving, composer
1929 - Luc Ferrari, composer
1932 - Malcolm Leyland Lipkin, composer
1933 - Bunk Gardner, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1935 - Link Wray, American guitarist (Link Wray and His Ray Men)
1936 - Michael Rabin, NYC, violinist (In Memorium)
1944 - John Verity, rocker (Argent)
1945 - Robert Henrit, England, rocker (Argent)
1945 - Randy Cain, US soul singer (4 Gents/Delfonics)
1945 - Goldy McJohn, rocker (Steppenwolf)
1945 - Judge Dread, English musician (d. 1998)
1945 - Bob Henrit, English pop drummer (Kinks-Waterloo Sunset)
1946 - Lesley Gore, Tenafly NJ, singer (It's My Party)
1950 - Lou Gramm, Rochester NY, rocker (Foreigner-Want to Know What Love Is)
1952 - Mari Natsuki, Japanese singer, dancer and actress
1953 - Valery Gergiev, Russian-born conductor
1955 - Jay Osmond, rocker (Osmond Brothers)
1955 - Joe Callis, rocker
1956 - David Rhodes, English guitarist
1959 - Tony Wakeford, English musician (Sol Invictus)
1961 - Doctor Robert, [Bruce R Howard], rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
1968 - Ziana Zain, Malaysian singer and actress
1974 - Garðar Thór Cortes, Icelandic tenor
1982 - Lorie, French singer
1985 - Lily Allen, English singer and songwriter
1987 - Nana Kitade, Japanese singer
Deaths in Music
1627 - Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (b. 1560)
1799 - Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer, dies at 58
1864 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer, dies at 72
1892 - Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 69
1897 - William Cleaver Francis Robinson, composer, dies at 63
1937 - Arthur Somervell, composer, dies at 73
1954 - Pauline de Cock-Manifarges, singer, dies at 82
1955 - Tadeusz Jarecki, composer, dies at 66
1957 - Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, composer, dies at 53
1959 - Yrla Henrik Kilpinen, Finnish composer, dies at 67
1963 - Tomas Vackar, composer, dies at 17
1985 - Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1909)
1990 - William Levi Dawson, composer, dies at 90
1998 - Hideto "hide" Matsumoto, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
Today in the News
- The Olympic flame is back on Chinese soil as the Olympics torch relay continues in Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. (BBC News)
- The United States Federal Reserve System auctions off $24.12 billion in Treasury securities to help relieve the subprime mortgage crisis. (AP via Google News)
- The President of the United States George W. Bush calls on the United States Congress to approve a $US700 million food aid package to help relieve the 2007-2008 world food price crisis. (AP via Google News)
- News anchor Barbara Walters admits to having affair with US Senator Edward Brooke. (AP via CNN)
News on this Day in History
1568 - Mary I of Scotland escapes from Loch Leven Castle, where she had been imprisoned by Sir William Douglas.
1670 - King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America.
1885 - Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time.
1920 - The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.
1932 - Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.
1952 - The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.
1955 - Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
1964 - First ascent of Shishapangma the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
1969 - The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
1986 - The 1986 World Exposition in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, opens.
2000 - Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats monument in Apeldoorn and the other in Ottawa on May 11, 2000. Symbolically linking both Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout World War II.
Holidays and Observances
Poland - Flag Day, an official holiday to honour the Flag of Poland
Bahá'í Faith: Last day of the Festival of Ridván
Madrid Region - Day of the Region.
Slovenia and Serbia - second day of Labour Day
Iran - Teacher's Day
Indonesia - Indonesia National Education Day
in the Roman Catholic Church:
Athanasius of Alexandria
Saint Germanus
Saint Waldebert, Walbert or Gaubert
in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church:
Saint Tsar Boris
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