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Today in Music History
1897 - Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera
1928 - Joseph Szigeti gives the first performance of Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto.
1971 - John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"
1976 - Sex Pistols sign with EMI
Births in Music
1949 - Hamish Stuart, Scotland, guitarist/singer (Average White Band)
1950 - Robert "Kool" Bell, Youngstown Oh, singer, bassist (Kool and the Gang)
1951 - Johnny Ramone [Cummings], guitarist/co-founder (Ramones)
1964 - CeCe Winans, American gospel singer
1965 - C-Jay Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
1585 - Heinrich Schutz, composer
1690 - Jaime de Casellas, composer
1692 - Antonio Palella, composer
1740 - Michel-Julien Mathieu, composer
1747 - Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer
1748 - Franz Seydelmann, composer
1790 - Waldemar Thrane, composer
1813 - Carl Ludwig Amand Mangold, composer
1820 - Stanislaw Katski, composer
1831 - Michal Jelski, composer
1834 - Walter Kittredge, American musician (d. 1905)
1837 - Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer
1860 - Felix Woyrsch, composer
1870 - Louis Vierne, French organist/composer
1883 - Dick Burnett, American musician (d. 1977)
1885 - William Henry Bennett Vodery, composer
1898 - Clarence Williams, composer
1900 - Zeno Octavian Vancea, composer
1901 - Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer (d. 1977)
1908 - Paul Van Buskirk Yoder, composer
1917 - Hans Poser, composer
1922 - Svend Westergaard, composer
1927 - Gigi Durston, Balt Md, singer (Sonny Kendis Show)
1927 - Al Duncan, drummer
1930 - Toru Takemitsu, Tokyo Japan, composer (Ki No Kyoko)
1934 - Doc Green, rocker (Drifters)
1936 - Carman Moore, composer
1939 - Armando Gentilucci, composer
1940 - Fred Cash, Chattanooga Tn, singer (Impressions)
1941 - George Bellamy, rocker (Tornados)
1943 - James Edward Sellars, composer
1944 - Susan Raye, American singer
1945 - Roy Royer, rock guitarist (Procol Harum)
1947 - Tony Wilson, Trinidad, rock vocalist (Hot Chocolate)
1949 - Hamish Stuart, Scotland, guitarist/singer (Average White Band)
1949 - Michael Rose, rocker (Average White Band)
1950 - Robert "Kool" Bell, Youngstown Oh, singer, bassist (Kool and the Gang)
1951 - Johnny Ramone [Cummings], guitarist/co-founder (Ramones)
1952 - Cliff Adams, rocker
1953 - Ricky Lee Phelps, Paragould Ar, singer (Kentucky Headhunters)
1955 - Lonnie Pitchford, American blues musician
1959 - Gavin Friday, [Fionan Hanvey], Irish singer (Virgin Prunes)
1961 - Ted Kooshian, American jazz pianist
1964 - CeCe Winans, American gospel singer
1965 - C-Jay Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
1968 - Leeroy Thornhill, British musician (The Prodigy)
1974 - DJ Q-Ball, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1977 - Erna Siikavirta, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1979 - [Gregory] Chad Petree, Shawne Okla, rocker (PC Quest, Shiny Toy Guns)
1981 - Ruby (Egyptian singer), Egyptian singer
Deaths in Music
1683 - Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer, dies at 76
1728 - Anne Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 47
1772 - Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, French composer, dies at 60
1834 - Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, French composer, dies at 58
1842 - Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer, dies at 68
1865 - Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies at 51
1895 - Charles Oberthur, composer, dies at 76
1897 - Martin Pluddemann, composer, dies at 43
1912 - Wilhelm Kuhe, composer, dies at 88
1953 - Kathleen Ferrier, English contralto singer, dies at 41
1962 - Solomon Linda, South African singer and composer
1971 - Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer, dies at 79
1975 - Alberto Hemsi, composer, dies at 78
1977 - Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country singer, composer, lyricist (b. 1902)
1978 - Tibor Serly, Hungarian violist/composer (American Elegy), dies at 76
1988 - Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer, dies at 82
1990 - B.J. Wilson, English musician (Procol Harum) (b. 1947)
1993 - Manke Nelis, [Cornelis Pieters], singer (Aunt Saar), dies at 73
1995 - Christopher Keene, American conductor/musician, dies at 48
The News of the Day
- The 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP).(Nobel Foundation)
- A Yeti Airlines plane crashes in the Everest region of Nepal killing 18 passengers. (AFP via Google News)
- Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling releases details of a rescue package aimed at restoring confidence in British Banks. As part of the deal the British Government will provide £50bn of investment, provide a further £200bn in short term loans and guarantee up to £250bn of intra-bank loans (BBC News)
- The RTS and MICEX stock exchanges halt trading until Friday after opening for just more than half an hour as prices plummeted in tune with the overall situation in the world's stock markets and falling oil prices. (Interfax via Onet.pl)
News from this Day in History
1871 - Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan. The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous of these, leaving nearly 100,000 people homeless, although the Peshtigo Fire killed as many as 2,500 people making it the deadliest fire in United States history.
1944 - "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debut on CBS radio
1967 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
1974 - Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States. Some things just don't change.
1978 - Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
1999 - New Coligny Calendar, NCC, the beginning of a new era of the Coligny calendar, the oldest material Celtic calendar.
2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security. 2005 - Martha Stewart begins her prison sentence after being convicted of securities fraud, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy in the ImClone stock trading case.
Holidays and Observances
- RC Saints - Palatia and Laurentia
- Bolivia - reportedly, Che Guevara is honoured on this day at which he was captured in La Higuera, as San Ernesto, answering prayers for rain
- French Republican Calendar - Citrouille (Pumpkin) Day, seventeenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
- Independence Day in Croatia
- Navy Day in Peru
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