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This is the blog from this day 2 years ago, unedited and hopefully interesting for you:
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Today in Music History
1783 - W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 receives its première performance in Linz, Austria.
1890 - St Aleksandr Borodons opera "Prins Igor," premieres in Petersburg
1908 - Brooklyn Academy of Music, opens in NYC
1909 - Opera "Il Segreto di Susanna" is produced (Munich)
1957 - Jackie Wilson made his US chart debut with 'Reet Petite', (it made No.1 in the UK in 1986, 29 years after It's first release).
1963 - The Beatles topped the bill at The Royal Variety Show at The Prince Of Wales Theatre, London. With the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret in the audience, this was the night when John Lennon made his famous remark “In the cheaper seats you clap your hands. The rest of you, just rattle your jewellery”. The show was broadcast on UK television on the Nov 10th 1963.
1968 - Cream played their final US show in Long Island.
1977 - The Last Waltz, the movie of The Bands final concert premiered in New York. The Martin Scorsese movie also featured Joni Mitchell, Dr John, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Neil Diamond, Eric Clapton.
1980 - Bob Marley was baptised at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Kingston, converting to a Christian Rastafarian and taking on the new name Berhane Selassie.
1989 - Elton John scored his 50th UK chart hit when 'Sacrifice', entered the charts. Only Cliff Richard and Elvis Presley had also achieved this.
Births in Music
1963 - Marc Déry, Canadian singer and guitarist (Zébulon)
1986 - Alexz Johnson, Canadian singer and actress
1587 - Samuel Scheidt, German organist/composer, baptised
1640 - Carlo Mannelli, composer
1656 - Leonard Sailer, composer
1674 - Anton Englert, composer
1708 - Robert Praelisauer, composer
1740 - Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn "Rock of Ages" (d. 1778)
1800 - Eduard Brendler, composer
1823 - Karel Komzak, composer
1841 - Carl Tausig, composer
1846 - Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer
1859 - Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer
1868 - Carolina Otero, a.k.a La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, singer and courtesan (d. 1965)
1872 - Herman Finck, composer
1881 - Gena Branscombe, composer
1887 - Knut Algot Hakanson, composer
1889 - Alton Augustus Adams, composer
1891 - Miroslav Krejci, composer
1897 - Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, Brazilian conductor/composer (Imbapara)
1903 - Ion Vasilescu, composer
1906 - Siegfried Borris, composer
1906 - Arnold Atkinson Cooke, composer
1911 - Ssamu Shimizu, composer
1912 - Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov, Russian composer
1922 - Poul Rovsing Olsen, composer
1927 - Vittorio Fellegara, composer
1935 - Elgar Howarth, composer
1938 - Harry Elston, rocker
1940 - Delbert McClinton, Lubbock Tx, singer (Gonna Find a Good Woman)
1944 - Willem Breuker, Dutch saxophonist/conductor (WB Collective)
1944 - Scherrie Payne, American singer (The Supremes)
1954 - Chris Difford, English guitarist/vocalist and songwriter (Squeeze-Tempted)
1956 - James Honeyman-Scott, rock guitarist/vocalist (Pretenders)
1956 - Jeff Watson, rock guitarist (Night Ranger)
1956 - Jordan Rudess, American musician (Dream Theater)
1957 - Najee, rocker
1960 - Frl. Menke, German pop singer of the Neue Deutsche Welle
1960 - Kim Forester, Lookout Mt Ga, country singer (Forester Sister-Men)
1961 - Daron Hagen, American composer
1961 - Edward Knight, American composer
1961 - Les Sampou, American musician
1963 - Rosario Flores, Spanish singer and actress
1963 - Lena Zavaroni, Scottish artist and singer (d. 1999)
1965 - Malandra Burrows, English actress and singer
1965 - Tomoaki Ishizuka "Pata", Japanese musician
1965 - Jeff Scott Soto, American musician (Yngwie Malmsteen, Journey)
1965 - Wayne Static, American musician (Static-X)
1965 - Gregory Scott [Koenig], Dearborn Mich, guitarist (Signs of Life)
1969 - Sean "Diddy" Combs, American rapper
1974 - Cedric Bixler-Zavala, American musician (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
1975 - Michael Osmond, Utah, singer (Osmond Boys)
Deaths in Music
1702 - Thomas Eisenhut, composer, dies at 58
1847 - Jacob L Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, German pianist/composer, dies at 38
1853 - Alexander Stadtfeld, composer, dies at 27
1890 - Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer, dies at 46
1898 - Jerome Hopkins, composer, dies at 62
1924 - Gabriel Urbain Faure, French composer (Requiem), dies at 79
1931 - Charles Buddy Bolden, US jazz musician
1935 - Miklos Radnai, composer, dies at 43
1937 - Rogelio del Villar, composer, dies at 61
1939 - Charles Arnold Tournemire, composer, dies at 69
1953 - Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composer, dies at 89
1956 - Art[hur] Tatum, US jazz pianist/composer, dies at 46
1957 - Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer, dies at 78
1965 - Krsto Odak, composer, dies at 77
1969 - Ferenc Szabo, composer, dies at 66
1994 - Fred "Sonic" Smith, guitarist, dies at 46
1995 - Marti Lynne Stringer Caine, singer/comedienne, dies at 50
What's Happening in the World Today 2008
Outside chance Viewed wins the 2008 Melbourne Cup, giving 81 year-old trainer Bart Cummings a record-breaking 12th cup victory. (ABC)
Voters in the United States go to the polls in general elections, which include elections for the President, all the seats of the House of Representatives, 35 of the 100 seats of the Senate, and the governors of 11 states, as well as Puerto Rico and American Samoa. (The Guardian)
DNA tests confirm bones found are Steve Fossett's
News from this Day in History
1677 - The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later jointly reign as William and Mary.
1825 - The Erie Canal is completed with Governor DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony in New York Harbour.
1922 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1955 - After being totally destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio.
1986 - Chief Justice Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by the electorate from the Supreme Court of California for their opposition to capital punishment. What!!!!!
1994 - San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
2003 - The most powerful solar flare observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.
World Holidays and Observances
Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Qudrat (Power), first day of the 13th month of the Bahá'í calendar
Egypt- valentine day.
Italy - Victory Day (celebration of victory in World War I), National Unity Day, Armed Forces Day
Panama - Flag Day
Roman Catholic Saints - Feast day of the following Roman Catholic saints:
- St. Charles Borromeo
- St. Emeric
- St. Vitalis
Roman festivals - start of the Ludi Plebeii
Russia - Day of People's Unity (or National Unity Day)
Russian Orthodox Church - Feast of Our Lady of Kazan
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