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Today in Music History
1911 - Opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance
1930 - Sjostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premiers in Lenningrad
1956 - Fats Domino appeared on the US TV Ed Sullivan Show performing 'Blueberry Hill.'
1975 - Bruce Springsteen made his live debut in the UK at London's Hammersmith Odeon.
1983 - R.E.M. made their first appearance outside the US when they appeared on Channel 4 UK TV show 'The Tube'. The following night they made their live UK debut when they played at Dingwalls, London.
1993 - Nirvana recorded their MTV unplugged special at Sony Studios, New York.
2007 - 22-year-old X Factor winner Leona Lewis set a British record for the fastest-selling debut album with Spirit. The singer sold more than 375,000 copies in seven days, 12,000 more than the Arctic Monkeys' 2006 release Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. Oasis still had the overall record for the fastest selling British album, selling 813,000 copies in 1997.
Births in Music
1926 - Dorothy Collins, Windsor Ontario, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1950 - Graham Parker, musician (Live Sparks, Mercury Poisoning)
1962 - Kirk Hammett, US heavy-metal guitarist (Metallica-Master of Puppets)
1680 - Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer
1736 - Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer
1742 - Felix Maximo Lopez, composer
1772 - Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer
1781 - Felice Blangini, composer
1786 - Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer/conductor
1786 - Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst "von" Weber, German composer (Freischtz)
1808 - Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer
1836 - William Schwenck Gilbert, London, composer (Gilbert and Sullivan)
1860 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, composer/1st premier of Poland (1919-20)
1871 - Amadeo Vives, composer
1874 - Riccardo Martin, composer
1882 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italy, operatic soprano (Cave of the Winds)
1895 - Ernst Levy, composer
1897 - Jules Buffano, St Louis Mo, pianist (Jimmy Durante Show)
1898 - Oswald Erich Sehlbach, composer
1899 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-born conductor (d. 1985)
1902 - Barbara Giuranna, composer
1903 - Lillian Fuchs, composer
1904 - Guido Santorsola, composer
1907 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003)
1916 - James L Lyons, jazz promoter
1920 - Louis Alfred Mennini, composer
1925 - William Robert Mayer, composer
1927 - Lawrence Kenneth Moss, composer
1928 - Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer
1933 - Jacques Charpentier, composer
1936 - Don E Cherry, US jazz trumpeter
1936 - Hank Ballard, Detroit, rocker (The Twist (pre Chubby Checker)
1939 - Tom Johnson, composer
1942 - Jeffrey Siegel, Chicago Ill, pianist (Chicago Symph)
1946 - Amanda Lear, French singer
1949 - Bonnie St Claire, [Cornelia Swart], Dutch singer (Tame me Tiger)
1950 - Rudy Sarzo, Cuban bass guitarist (Quiet Riot)
1953 - John McFee, rock guitarist (Doobie Brothers, Clover)
1954 - John Parr, British pop singer
1955 - Carter Burwell, American composer
1957 - Jenny Burton, NYC, rocker (Nobody Loves Me Like You Do)
1960 - Kim Wilde, [Smith], England, rock vocalist (You Keep Me Hanging On)
1961 - Janice Lynn Kuehnemund, St Paul Minn, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1969 - Duncan Sheik, American singer
1970 - Johan Liiva, Sweden vocalist (Arch Enemy)
1972 - Jessi Alexander, American country music singer/songwriter
1973 - Steve Christopher Petree, Okla, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
1976 - Shagrath, Norwegian singer (Dimmu Borgir)
1977 - Fabolous, American rapper
1980 - Junichi Okada, Japanese singer (V6)
1980 - Dustin Kensrue, American Singer/Songwriter (Thrice)
1981 - Gian Magdangal, Filipino singer and actor
1984 - Johnny Christ, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)
1984 - Ryohei Chiba, Japanese singer w-inds.
Deaths in Music
1678 - Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36
1771 - Giuseppe de Majo, composer, dies at 73
1822 - Anton Teyber, composer, dies at 66
1822 - George Knowil Jackson, composer, dies at 65
1841 - Georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77
1852 - Anton Bernhard Furstenau, composer, dies at 60
1887 - Eduard Marxsen, composer, dies at 81
1887 - Heinrich Panofka, German violist/composer, dies at 80
1951 - William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer, dies at 66
1951 - Vaclav Kalik, composer, dies at 60
1966 - Bela Tardos, composer, dies at 56
1969 - Leon Jongen, composer, dies at 85
1969 - Ted Heath, British musician and bandleader (b. 1902)
1970 - Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires), dies at 56
1971 - Junior Parker, rocker, dies during brain operation at 44
1972 - Segundo Luis Moreno Andrade, composer, dies at 90
1972 - Danny Whitten, American musician and songwriter (b. 1943)
1973 - Alois H ba, Czech (opera)composer (Neuland), dies at 80
1990 - Peter Schilperoort, saxophonist/clarinetist
1992 - Dorothy Kirsten, US soprano, dies from stroke at 82
1994 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (b. 1907)
1999 - Doug Sahm, American musician (b. 1941)
2003 - Michael Kamen, American composer (b. 1948)
2004 - Cy Coleman, American composer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1929)
News from this Day in History
326 - The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
1302 - Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam (One Faith).
1307 - According to legend, William Tell shoots an apple off of his son's head.
1477 - William Caxton produces Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first book printed on a printing press in England.
1493 - Christopher Columbus first sights what is now Puerto Rico.
1865 - Mark Twain's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.
1883 - American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
1926 - George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
1928 - Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon stars Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is also considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
1929 - 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
World Holidays and Observances
Roman festivals - day 1 Dios dedicated to the sun god by emperor Licinius
Latvia - Independence Day (1918)
Morocco - Independence Day (1956)
Oman - National holiday
Venezuela - Feast of the Virgen de Chiquinquirá, also known as la Chinita, in the western state of Zulia
Abhai of Hach
Roman Catholic Saints - Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul ; Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne ; also St Mawes, St Odo of Cluny, St Romanus of Antioch
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