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Today in Music History
1893 - Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its premiere performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death.
Births in Music
1936 - Charlie Daniels, Wilmington NC, singer/musician (Devil Went Down to Georgia)
1969 - Ben Harper, American singer, songwriter, musician
1972 - Brad Paisley, American country singer, songwriter, musician
1976 - Karl Tremblay, Canadian singer (Les Cowboys Fringants)
1689 - Michel Mathieu, composer
1733 - Ignaz Franz von Beecke, composer
1789 - Johann Schneider, composer
1798 - Henri-Jerome Bertini, composer
1801 - Karl Georg Lickl, composer
1805 - John Thomson, composer
1856 - Franz Xavier Arens, composer
1879 - Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta, composer
1884 - Miloje Milojevic, composer
1890 - Andres Isasi, composer
1892 - Dink Johnson, American musician (d. 1954)
1896 - Howard Hanson, Wahoo Nebraska, composer/conductor (Nordic)
1904 - Louis de Meester, composer
1909 - Adolfs Skulte, composer
1922 - Gershon Kingsley, German composer
1924 - Alfonso Montalva Montecino, composer
1927 - Dame Cleo Laine, British singer
1930 - John Henry Mayer, composer
1930 - Harry Gilbert Trythall, composer
1935 - Folke Rabe, composer
1936 - Carl Davis, American-born musical conductor and composer
1936 - Ted Hawkins, singer/guitarist
1941 - Curtis Lee, American singer
1941 - Glenn Moore, rocker
1941 - Hank Marvin, England, [Brian Rankin], guitarist
1943 - Randy Newman, singer/songwriter/musician (Short People)
1943 - Conny Froboess, German singer
1945 - Wayne Fontana, Manchester England, singer (Groovy Kind of Love)
1945 - Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine)
1948 - Telma Hopkins, Louisville, singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn)
1952 - Tommy Dobeck, rock drummer (Michael Stanley Band)
1956 - Dave Wyndorf, American singer (Monster Magnet)
1957 - Stephen Morris, English pop drummer (Joy Division)
1958 - William Reid, Scottish musician (The Jesus and Mary Chain)
1959 - Neville Henry, rocker (Blow Monkeys)
1963 - Eros Ramazzotti, Italian singer
1978 - Justin Guarini, American singer (1st American Idol runner-up)
1979 - Aki Hakala, Finnish drummer (The Rasmus)
Deaths in Music
1639 - Stefano Landi, Italian composer (b. 1587)
1755 - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer, dies at 65
1768 - Michel Blavet, French court flautist/composer, dies at 68
1779 - Raphael Weiss, composer, dies at 66
1854 - James P Carrell, composer, dies at 67
1875 - William Howard Glover, composer, dies at 56
1877 - Johann Herbeck, composer, dies at 45
1912 - Edgar Tinel, Flemish composer (Le chant Gregorien), dies at 58
1914 - Richard Heuberger, composer, dies at 64
1927 - Eaton Faning, composer, dies at 77
1940 - Andrea d' Angeli, composer, dies at 71
1959 - Egon Kornauth, composer, dies at 68
1962 - Pierre Froidebise, composer, dies at 48
1963 - Mart Saar, composer, dies at 81
1965 - Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)
1970 - Baby Huey, [James Ramey], vocalist (Baby Huey and Babysitters)
1970 - Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer, dies at 99
1971 - Yves de La Casiniere, composer, dies at 74
1975 - Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (b. 1932)
1987 - Woody Herman, US jazz clarinetist/composer, dies at 74
1991 - Sylvia Fine Kaye, US lyricist/composer, dies at 78
2000 - Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (b. 1912)
2001 - Gerard Hengeveld, Dutch composer (b. 1910)
2005 - Fernando Quejas, Cape Verdean singer and musician (b. 1922)
2006 - Marijohn Wilkin, American songwriter (b. 1920)
2007 - Porter Wagoner, American country singer (b. 1927)
The News of the Day
- North Korea issues a statement declaring it that it will turn South Korea into "debris" if South Korea does not stop all "confrontational activities". (CNN)
- Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens is found guilty on all seven counts of lying on United States Senate financial documents. (AP via Google News)
- The Washington, D.C. Metro announces it will randomly search "backpacks, gym bags and any other containers that riders carry with them onto the bus and rail system" during periods of increased threat. (The Washington Post)
News from this Day in History
1538 - The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
1886 - In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
1929 - Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
1942 - The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
1948 - Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
1965 - Nostra Aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, is promulgated by Pope Paul VI; it absolves the Jews of the alleged killing of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760 year-old declaration.
1970 - Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
2007 - First NFL game played outside North America is played at Wembley Stadium.
Holidays and Observances
- Czech Republic - Independence Day (from Austria-Hungary, 1918)
- Slovakia - Day of the Establishment of an Independent Czecho-Slovak State (independence from Austria-Hungary, 1918)
- Greece - Okhi (No) Day (marking the refusal of Greece to submit to Italy and the Axis Powers, 1940)
- Gifu Prefecture, Japan - Prefectural Earthquake Disaster Prevention Day
- Christian feast days:
- Lord of Miracles - Peruvian catholic festivity
- Abdias of Babylon
- Abgar V of Edessa
- St. Eadsin
- St. Fidelis of Como
- Saint Faro
- Saint Godwin
- Saint Job of Pochayiv
- Saint Jude (a.k.a Saint Thaddaeus or "of James")
- St. Simon the Zealot (erroneously a.k.a. "the Canaanite")
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