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Today in Music History
1924 - Arnold Schoebergs opera "Die Gluckliche Hand," premieres in Vienna
1964 - Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts weds Shirley Shepherd
1968 - Beatles "White Album" completed
Births in Music
1926 - Ray Brown, American Bassist extraordinary
1945 - Colin Hodgkinson, English bassist (Whitesnake)
1958 - Thomas Dolby, Cairo Egypt, rock vocalist/musician (She Blinded Me With Science)
1585 - Heinrich Schultz, German royal chaplain master/composer (Daphne)
1730 - Jean Joseph Rodolphe, composer
1738 - Giovanni Calisto Andrea Zanotti, composer
1753 - Franz Anton Dimmler, composer
1764 - Charles-Henri Plantade, composer
1796 - Adolf Ganz, composer
1853 - Ciprian Porumbescu, composer
1855 - George Edwardes, British composer (Gaiety Girl)
1859 - Camille Chevillard, composer
1861 - Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer
1871 - Alexander von Zemlinsky, Vienna Austria, composer (Schneeman)
1873 - Jose Serrano Simeon, composer
1888 - Ernest Pingoud, composer
1900 - Agustín Lara, Mexican composer (d. 1970)
1904 - Karel Srom, composer
1909 - Kalervo Tuukkanen, composer
1926 - Bill Justis, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1982)
1928 - Gary Graffman, NYC, pianist (Leventritt Award)
1929 - Alfredo Santos Buenaventura, composer
1930 - Robert Parker, US saxophonist/soul singer (Barefootin')
1931 - Nikhil Banerjee, Indian classical musician (d. 1986)
1932 - Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor (d. 2005)
1935 - La Monte Young, Bern Idaho, composer (Composition in 1990)
1940 - Cliff Richard, English singer
1942 - Billy Harrison, Belfast Ireland, rock guitarist (Them)
1943 - Anthony Iannaccone, composer
1946 - Justin Hayward, England, vocalist (Moody Blues)
1946 - Dan McCafferty, Scottish singer (Nazareth)
1951 - Marcia Barrett, St Catherine's Jamaica, rock vocalist (Boney M)
1952 - Daisy Eshuijs, singer/pianist/composer (Eye to Eye)
1952 - Margriet Eshuijs, Dutch singer/pianist
1959 - A J Pero, Staten Is, drummer (Twisted Sister)
1961 - Mike Tramp, Denmark, heavy metal rocker (White Lion)
1963 - Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer
1965 - Constantine Koukias, Australian composer
1965 - Karyn White, American singer
1968 - Johnny Goudie, American musician
1974 - Natalie Maines, American musician (Dixie Chicks)
1974 - Joseph Utsler, American musician
1975 - Shaznay Lewis, English singer (All Saints)
1977 - Tina Dico, Danish singer-songwriter
1978 - Justin Brannan, American musician, writer
1978 - Usher, American singer, dancer and actor
1992 - Savannah Outen, American singer/songwriter
Deaths in Music
1568 - Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer
1669 - Antonio Cesti, Italian composer, dies at 46
1771 - Franz Xaver Brixi, composer, dies at 39
1775 - Johann Jacob Rowalt, composer, dies at 57
1847 - William Michael Rooke, composer, dies at 53
1857 - Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, composer, dies at 33
1877 - Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer, dies at 68
1900 - Sandor Erkel, composer, dies at 54
1909 - Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, composer, dies at 76
1923 - George Elbridge Whiting, composer, dies at 83
1957 - Carl Natanael Berg, composer, dies at 78
1958 - Jean Poveigh, composer, dies at 82
1966 - Arcady Dubensky, composer, dies at 75
1972 - Joseph Kaminski, composer, dies at 68
1977 - Bing Crosby, American crooner and actor (b. 1903)
1981 - Ingemar Liljefors, composer, dies at 74
1985 - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1916)
1987 - Rodolfo Halffter, composer, dies at 86
1990 - Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor, dies of heart attack at 72
1994 - Gioconda de Vito, violinist, dies at 87
1998 - Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)
2002 - Norbert Schultze, American composer and songwriter (b. 1911)
2004 - Vlassis Bonatsos, Greek singer, actor and entertainer (b. 1949)
2006 - Jared Anderson, American bassist (b. 1975)
2006 - Freddy Fender, American musician (b. 1937)
2007 - Big Moe, American rapper (b. 1974)
Today's News from 1 year ago
- Canadians go to the polls in the 40th general election. (CBC News)
- The Dow Jones industrial average increases by 935 points or 11.1 percent as stock markets around the world respond positively to steps to relieve the economic crisis of 2008. (New York Times)
- A second wildfire breaks out in the hills above Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley prompting mandatory evacuations. (AP via USA Today)
- Santa Ana winds causes an existing fire in the Angeles National Forest north of Los Angeles to flare up resulting in the closure of two freeways. (CNN)
- The United Kingdom House of Lords rejects the Counter-Terrorism Bill 2008 by 309 votes to 118. (Reuters)
- The European Union temporarily lifts travel bans on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and other top officials for six months to encourage democratic reforms in that country. (BBC News)
- The U.S. Federal Reserve approves the merger of Wells Fargo and Wachovia after Citigroup withdraws the legal case in a New York federal court to put a hold on the merger.
News from this Day in History
1789 - George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day.
1867 - The 15th and last Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan.
1884 - George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
1888 - Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
1926 - The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published.
1931 - 1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University
1947 - Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.
1957 - Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with the Speech from the Throne.
1958 - The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.
1966 - The city of Montreal inaugurates the Montreal Metro.
1967 - Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California.
1968 - First live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft Apollo 7.
1968 - Jim Hines of the USA becomes the first man ever to break the ten second barrier in the 100 metres Olympic final at Mexico City with a time of 9.95 sec. He would be the only man to do so until 1983.
Holidays and Observances
- RC Saints - Pope Callistus I, Angadrisma, Fortunatus of Todi
- Teachers' Day, or National Education Day in Poland
- French Republican Calendar - Navet (Turnip) Day, twenty-third day in the Month of Vendémiaire
- Chişinău's (Moldova's capital) local holiday (known as "Hramul Oraşului" by locals).
- World Standards Day
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