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Today in Music History
1786 - Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna)
1931 - Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS
1966 - Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
1971 - Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar"
1983 - Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.
Births in Music
1909 - Kate Smith, Virg, singer (God Bless America)/Phila Flyer luck charm
1927 - Harry Belafonte, calypso singer (Banana Boat Song)
1944 - Rita Coolidge, Nashville Tn, singer (Higher and Higher, We're All Alone)
1954 - Ray Parker Jr, Detroit Mich, guitarist?/vocalist (Ghostbusters)
1582 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer
1764 - Gottfried Rieger, composer
1771 - George Guest, composer
1775 - Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer
1858 - Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer
1859 - Bohuslav Jeremias, composer
1872 - Hugo Alfven, Stockholm Sweden, composer (Midsommarvaka)
1884 - Felipe Boero, composer
1895 - Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946)
1899 - J¢n Leifs, Iceland, composer/conductor
1901 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, American film composer (d. 1985)
1909 - George Melachrino, composer
1912 - Anna Pollak, mezzo-soprano
1912 - Felipe Padilla de Leon, composer
1913 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (d. 1980)
1917 - Danielle Darrieux, French singer and actress
1924 - Earl George, composer
1924 - Enrico Josif, composer
1927 - William Mitchell Byers, musician
1929 - Sonny James, [James Loden], Hackelburg AL, rocker (Young Love)
1930 - Little Walter, [Marion Walter Jacobs], American blues singer
1934 - Shirley Horn, American jazz singer and pianist (d. 2005)
1937 - Bo Nilsson, Swedish composer (Doppelspiel)
1939 - Judy Collins, Seattle Wash, singer (Send in the Clowns, Clouds)
1941 - Juraj Hatrick, composer
1946 - Tony Ashton, rocker
1946 - Nick Fortune, [Nicholas Fortuna], rock bassist (Buckinghams Chicago)
1946 - Jerry Weiss, NYC, rocker (Blood Sweat and Tears)
1947 - Carlos Ward, rocker (B T Express)
1948 - James Wise, US soul singer (Archie Bell and the Drells)
1949 - Tim Hodgkinson, English composer and musician (Henry Cow)
1953 - Felix Hanemann, rocker (Zebra)
1955 - Nick Feldman, English musician
1957 - Steve Farris, rock guitarist (Mr Mister)
1957 - Ko Otani, Japanese composer
1959 - Paul Smith, rock saxophonist (Haircut 100)
1966 - Johnny Colt, Cherry Point NC, rock bassist (Black Crowes)
1967 - Tim McGraw, American musician
1968 - Mark Scott, Paramus NJ, rock drummer (Trixter-Give It To Me Good)
1968 - D'arcy Wretzky, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
1977 - Dan Regan, American musician (Reel Big Fish)
1979 - MC Harvey (Michael Harvey), British musical artist
1984 - Keiichiro Koyama, Japanese musician (member of NEWS (band))
Deaths in Music
1679 - Esaias Reusner, composer, dies at 43
1731 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b. 1677)
1874 - Vilem Blodek, composer, dies at 39
1886 - Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl, composer, dies at 56
1903 - Luigi Arditi, violist/composer, dies at 80
1904 - Anton¡n Dvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), dies at 62
1921 - Louis Campbell-Tipton, composer, dies at 43
1934 - Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35
1945 - Desider Antalffy-Zsiross, Hungarian organist/composer, dies at 59
1946 - Percy William Whitlock, composer, dies at 42
1946 - Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, composer, dies at 71
1965 - Leo Spies, composer, dies at 65
1965 - Spike Jones, composer (Spike Jones Show), dies at 53
1972 - Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator (Orfeo), dies at 82
1978 - Aram Katchaturian, Russian composer (The Earth), dies at 74
1982 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1903)
1984 - Gordon Jenkins, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 73
1986 - Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1916)
1990 - Sergio Franchi, Italian tenor (b. 1926)
1996 - William Mitchell Byers, musician, dies on 79th birthday
2006 - Big Hawk, American rapper (b.1969)
2006 - Johnny Paris, American saxophonist (Johnny and the Hurricanes) (b. 1940)
Today in the News - One Year Ago
- Voters in England and Wales go to the polls for the United Kingdom local elections, 2008. (The Telegraph)
- The London Agreement on translation of European patents, concluded in 2000, enters into force in 13 of the 34 Contracting States to the European Patent Convention. (EPO)
- Brazil's long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating is raised to BBB− by Standard & Poor's, marking the first time the country's foreign currency debt receives an investment grade rating. (The International Herald Tribune)
- The United States Department of State's annual report on terrorism states that al-Qaeda "has reconstituted some of its pre-9/11 operational capabilities" in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. (USA Today)
- The Bush administration brings back the one year Treasury bill in order to cope with rising budget deficits. (AP via Google News)
- The Federal Reserve System cuts interest rates in the United States by a quarter percentage to 2 per cent. (The Telegraph)
- Google finishes 3D mapping of the world's oceans. (CNET)
News on this Day in History
1707 - The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1751 - The first cricket match is played in America.
1753 - Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
1776 - Establishment of the Illuminati in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt.
1834 - The British colonies abolish slavery.
1840 - The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
1851 - The Great Exhibition opens in London by Queen Victoria.
1884 - Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States.
1886 - The start of the general strike which eventually wins the eight-hour workday in the United States. These events are today commemorated as May Day or Labour Day in most industrialized countries.
1927 - The first cooked meals on a scheduled flight are introduced on an Imperial Airways flight from London to Paris.
1930 - The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
1931 - The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
1946 - The Paris Peace Conference concludes that the islands of the Dodecanese should be returned to Greece by Italy.
1948 - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as president.
1956 - The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
1961 - The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
1978 - Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
1978 - The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a DEC marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
Holidays and Observances
- May Day, Labour Day, Workers' Day, Day of the International Solidarity of Workers.
- Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Remembrance Day, national holiday in Israel
- Czech Republic - "National Love Day" – couples tend to flock to the memorial of the poet Karel Hynek Mácha in Prague and kiss.
- Lei Day - Hawaiian holiday for the Lei.
- Beltane, Lá Bealtaine, the first day of Summer in modern Ireland was celebrated by the Celts, and is now also celebrated by Neopagans and Wiccans.
- Northern Europe - Walpurgis Night.
- Roman Empire - all-female festival in honour of Bona Dea.
- Roman Empire - fourth and last day of the Floralia in honour of Flora.
- United States - Law Day, U.S.A., Loyalty Day.
- Malta - public holiday (L-Ewwel ta' Mejju (1st May Day), or Jum il-Ħaddiem (Worker's Day)).
- Maharashtra Day (Maharashtra Divas) - Maharastra, India.
- Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker
- Saint James the Less.
- Saint Philip the Apostle.
- Saint Andeol.
- Saint Asaph
- Saint Brieuc.
- Saint Sigismund of Burgundy.
- Saint Theodulf.
- Saint Augustin Schoeffer
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