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Today in Music History
1886 - Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain," performed in Russia
1920 - Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins
1960 - Singer Ben E King records "Spanish Harlem" and "Stand By Me"
1964 - Singers Sonny and Cher wed, Cher wore bell-bottoms
1975 - Covers of both Time and Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen
1986 - Paul McCartney release "Pretty Little Head"
Births in Music
1782 - Niccolo Paganini, Genoa It, composer/violin virtuoso (Princess Lucca)
1928 - Gilles Vigneault, Canadian poet, singer and songwriter
1949 - Garry W Tallent, bassist (E Street Band)
1739 - Franz Ignaz Kaa, composer
1746 - Georg Anton Kreusser, composer
1775 - Traugott Maximilian Eberwein, composer
1817 - Antoni Katski, composer
1873 - Henry Tate, composer
1894 - Antonius "Toon" Verhey, violin cellist/conductor (Residence-orch)
1911 - Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
1912 - Conlon Nancarrow, Texarkana Arkansas, composer (Soundings 4)
1921 - Anestis Logothetis, composer
1927 - Dominick Argento, York Penn, composer (Colonel Jonathan the Saint)
1933 - Floyd Cramer, La, Pianist and cowboy singer (Last Date, On the Rebound)
1940 - Lee Greenwood, country singer (God Bless the USA)
1942 - Phillip Catherine, rocker
1948 - Byron Allred, Logan Ut, rocker (Steve Miller Band)
1949 - Jack Daniels, Choctaw Okla, country singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1951 - K K Downing, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
1957 - Jeff East, rocker
1958 - Hazell Dean, rocker (Always Doesn't Mean Forever)
1958 - Simon Le Bon, rock vocalist (Duran, Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
1967 - Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver)
1969 - Annie Patterson, composer
1970 - Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth)
1972 - Elissa (singer), Lebanese singer
1972 - Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea)
1978 - Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician
1980 - Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
1982 - Keri Hilson, American singer, songwriter
Deaths in Music
1771 - Johann Gottlieb Graun, composer
1781 - Herman-Francois Delange, composer, dies at 66
1796 - Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, composer, dies at 45
1822 - Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 55
1833 - Ferdinand Franzl, composer, dies at 66
1848 - Alexander Egorovich Varlamov, composer, dies at 46
1864 - Andreas Randel, composer, dies at 58
1925 - Wilhelm Gericke, composer, dies at 80
1933 - Julius Klengel, composer, dies at 74
1940 - Fini Valdemar Henriques, composer, dies at 72
1943 - Bela Reinitz, composer, dies at 64
1949 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
1953 - Eduard Kenneke, German composer (Majority Sonderin), dies at 68
1953 - Zdzislaw Jachimecki, composer, dies at 71
1954 - Franco Alfano, Ital (opera)composer (Puccini's Turandot), dies at 78
1955 - Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov, composer, dies at 66
1969 - Jaime Pahissa, composer, dies at 89
1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
1990 - Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
1991 - Andrzei Panufkin, Pol/Brit conductor/composer (Sinfonia Sacra)
1994 - Robert White, guitarist, dies at 57
2000 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
News from this Day in History
312 - Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
1275 - Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
1682 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
1904 - The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
1973 - The Cañon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite, strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
Holidays and Observances
- United States - Navy Day
- Greece - Flag Day
- Turkmenistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Independence Day (from Britain, 1979)
- R.C. saints - October 27th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
- Abban of Magheranoidhe
- Abban of New Ross
- St. Elesbaan
- St. Frumentius, the saint who introduced Christianity into Ethiopia.
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