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P.S. scroll down and check out the news from this day in history - a lot of firsts today.
Today in Music History
1921 - Leos Janacek's opera "K t'a Kabanov ," premieres in Brno
1989 - George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976-89" album
Births in Music
1956 - Dwight Yoakam, Pikeville Ky, country singer, songwriter, musician (Honky Tonk Man)
1959 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, Calif, parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun)
1654 - Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer
1773 - Pietro Generali, composer
1794 - Joseph Panny, composer
1801 - Gustav Albert Lortzing, German composer (d. 1851)
1819 - Isac Baker Woodbury, composer
1846 - Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer
1851 - Guillaume Couture, composer
1869 - Jacobus H "Koos" Speenhoff, Dutch singer
1893 - Jean Absil, Belgian composer (Peau d'Ane)
1902 - Otmar Nussio, composer
1903 - Milford Dolliole, pioneer jazz drummer
1905 - Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev, composer
1906 - Miriam Gideon, composer
1923 - Ned Rorem, American composer
1925 - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer/conductor (Never on Sunday)
1928 - Alexander Tanev, composer
1928 - Patrick Peter Sacco, composer
1935 - Zbigniew Rudzinski, composer
1940 - Ellie Greenwich, American singer
1940 - Freddie Marsden, Liverpool, rock drummer (Gerry and The Pacemakers)
1941 - Greg Ridley, bassist (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
1944 - Mike Harding, English singer and comedian
1945 - Kim Larsen, Danish singer
1949 - Michael 'Wurzel' Burston, British guitarist (Motörhead)
1950 - Harry Sacksioni, Dutch guitarist (Around the Corner)
1951 - Charly García, Argentine singer
1952 - Pierre Moerlen, French drummer and percussionist (d. 2005)
1964 - Robert Trujillo, American bassist (Metallica)
1967 - Dale Crover, American musician (Melvins, The Men of Porn, Altamont)
1974 - Eric Bass, American Bassist and Pianist (Shinedown)
1987 - Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer (Play)
1990 - Stevie Brock, American singer
Deaths in Music
1753 - Columban Praelisauer, composer, dies at 50
1782 - Joseph Reipel, composer, dies at 73
1801 - Johann Gottlieb Naumann, German composer, dies at 60
1806 - Franz Seydelmann, composer, dies at 58
1869 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque, Belgian composer, dies at 72
1886 - Johann Nepomuk Kafka, composer, dies at 67
1925 - Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Karatigin, composer, dies at 50
1942 - Ralph Rainger, composer, dies at 41
1948 - Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa, composer, dies at 71
1950 - Al Jolson, American singer and actor (b. 1886)
1954 - Henri Zagwijn, composer, dies at 76
1976 - Leonard Lee, US RandB-singer (Shirley and Lee-I'm Gone), dies at 40
1978 - Maybelle Carter, country singer and musical innovator (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69
1982 - Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist, dies at 52
1996 - Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher, dies at 67
2003 - Tony Capstick, English actor, comedian, and musician (b. 1944)
2004 - Robert Merrill, American baritone (b. 1919)
The News of the Day
- The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launches Chandrayaan, its first unmanned lunar exploration mission. (Indian Express)
- The Macau security law draft was unveiled. It is based on the Article 23 of the Macau Basic Law, similar to the failed anti-subversion bill in Hong Kong based on Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23, which drew over 500,000 protesters in 2003. (The Standard HK)
News and tidbits from this Day in History
1707 - The first Parliament of Great Britain, i.e., the United Kingdom, meets.
1906 - Alberto Santos-Dumont flies an airplane in the first heavier-than-air flight in Europe at Champs de Bagatelle, Paris, France.
1915 - Woman's suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.
1929 - The first North American transcontinental air service begins between New York City and Los Angeles, California.
1930 - The first miniature golf tournament was completed in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1935 - Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.
1958 - The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series appear for the first time, in the story Le flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo which is serialized in the weekly comics magazine Spirou.
1992 - Emperor Akihito becomes the first Emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil.
2001 - Apple releases the iPod.
Holidays and Observances
- Chulalongkorn Memorial Day in Thailand
- Day of the revolution in Republic of Macedonia
- Mole Day
- National Day - revolution of 1956 and the proclamation of the Republic of Hungary in 1989
- R.C. Saints - Saint Giovanni da Capistrano; Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius; Saint Anthony Mary Claret; Saint Ignatius of Constantinople
- Astrology: First day of sun sign Scorpio in Western tropical astrology.
- French Republican Calendar - Céleri (Celery) Day, second day in the Month of Brumaire
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