It's Wednesday,
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Today in Music History
1600 - Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period.
1871 - Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour.
1927 - "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres. (NYC)
1978 - Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls".
Births in Music
1950 - Thomas McClary, US soul guitarist (Commodores-Still)
1982 - William Butler, Musician and member of Arcade Fire
1618 - Miguel Gomez Camargo, composer
1777 - William Russell, composer
1806 - Andreas Randel, composer
1816 - William Batchelder Bradbury, composer
1818 - Joseph Rummel, composer
1820 - Jenny Lind, Sweden, soprano/nightingale
1827 - Cark Reidel, composer
1873 - Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, composer
1880 - Julia Culp, mezzo-soprano
1882 - Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Timoshovka Ukraine, composer (Stabatmater)
1886 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
1887 - Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], Austria, singer (Vienna Opera)
1888 - Max Butting, composer
1896 - Otto Siegl, composer
1902 - Mihovil Logar, composer
1915 - Edgardo Martin, composer
1926 - Alan Copeland, LA Calif, orch leader/singer (Your Hit Parade)
1926 - Cyril Reuben, violinist
1927 - Paul Badura-Skoda, Vienna Austria, pianist (Mozart Interpretation)
1942 - Millie Small, Jamaican singer
1943 - Udo Zimmermann, composer
1943 - Cees Veerman, pop guitarist/singer (Cats-Sure He's a Cat)
1947 - Patxi Andión, Spanish singer-songwriter
1949 - Bobby Farrell, Jamaica, rock vocalist
1951 - Kevin Cronin, Champaign Ill, rock vocalist (REO Speedwagon)
1954 - David Hidalgo, American musician (Los Lobos, Latin Playboys)
1960 - Richard Jobson, British TV person/rocker (Skids-Scared to Dance)
1961 - Tim Burgess, rocker
1964 - Matthew Sweet, American musician
1970 - Amy Jo Johnson, American actress and singer
1972 - Ryu Shi-won, Korean actor and singer
1982 - MC Lars, American hip-hop artist
1984 - Joanna Pacitti, American actress and singer
Deaths in Music
1651 - Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien), dies at 47
1762 - Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, Italian composer, dies at 78
1786 - Antonio Maria Gasparo Giaccino Sacchini, composer, dies at 56
1837 - Jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer, dies at 77
1860 - Stephen Elvey, composer, dies at 55
1868 - Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer, dies at 51
1874 - Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer, dies at 50
1909 - Dudley Buck, US organist/composer, dies at 70
1920 - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazilian composer/conductor (Artemis), dies at 56
1933 - Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer, dies at 62
1935 - Frederic Hymen Cowen, composer, dies at 83
1940 - Ferdinando Liuzzi, composer, dies at 55
1947 - Leevi Antti Madetoya, composer, dies at 60
1954 - Hakon Borresen, composer, dies at 78
1973 - Arnold Maria Walter, composer, dies at 71
1985 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
1995 - Walter "Crash" Morgan, drummer, dies at 35
1999 - Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
Today in the News 1 year ago
- At least three people have died and 30 injured in a collision between two passenger trains near Budapest, Hungary.
- An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 on Richter scale hits near the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan killing 60 people. (CNN)
- Another earthquake of magnitude 6.6 on Richter scale hits Damxung, Tibet, in the People's Republic of China killing at least 30.
- The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Harald zur Hausen of Germany for his discovery of the human papilloma viruses that can cause cervical cancer in women, and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier of France for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. (BBC News)
- Wall Street's tumble (Dow diving 400 points to below 10,000) was part of a global sell-off. But as severe as the U.S. losses were, they were still significantly less than the sharp declines across Europe and in emerging markets, such as Brazil where trading in the São Paulo Stock Exchange was halted after a 15 percent drop in its benchmark index. (Reuters)
- A suicide blast in the Sri Lankan town of Anuradhapura has killed 25 people, including the former army general Janaka Perera. (BBC News)
- Nancy Kissel loses an appeal against her conviction of murdering her husband Robert Kissel in Hong Kong in 2003. (Bloomberg via Hong Kong Standard)
News from this Day in History
1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
1898 - Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
1945 - Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series. (the curse of the billy goat)
1966 - LSD is declared illegal in the United States.
1979 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1995 - 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
2007 - Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
Holidays and Observances
- RC Saints - Saint Bruno, St Faith, Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus
- Egypt - Armed Forces Day; commemorates the October War of 1973.
- U.S. - German-American Day observed since 1987
- Judaism - Fast of Gedalia (2005)
- French Republican Calendar - Âne (Donkey) Day, fifteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
- Australia - Labour Day
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