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Today in Music History
1965 - Beatles' "Yesterday," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks
1966 - John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at a London art gallery
1966 - Rolling Stones 1st LP recorded "Got Live if you Want It"
1986 - The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.
1990 - Radio stations around world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon
Births in Music
1940 - John [Winston/Ono] Lennon, British singer/songwriter/musician/Beatle (Imagine)
1944 - John Entwistle, London, rock bassist/vocalist (Who)
1944 - Peter Tosh, Jamaica, reggae musician (Mystic Man, Mama Africa)
1585 - Heinrich Schütz, German composer (d. 1672)
1626 - John Ferrabosco, composer
1727 - Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer
1760 - Pierre Gaveaux, composer
1766 - Bedrich Divis Weber, composer
1813 - Giuseppe Fortunio Francesco Verdi, Italian composer (Traviata, Aida)
1835 - Camille Saint-Saans, Paris France, composer (Ode Sainte Cecile)
1863 - Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist/prof (Moscow Cons 1888-91)
1869 - Harry Lawrence Freeman, composer
1873 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (d. 1944)
1875 - Reynaldo Hahn, composer
1890 - Alfred Julius Swan, composer
1890 - Janis Medins, composer
1904 - Carl Parrish, composer
1906 - Janis Ivanovs, composer
1908 - Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (d. 1975)
1910 - Phil Hanna, River Forest Ill, singer (Once Upon a Tune)
1914 - Roger Goeb, composer
1919 - Rezso Sugar, composer
1920 - Yusef Lateef, composer
1922 - Raymond Wilding-White, composer
1923 - Ronald Tremain, composer
1928 - Einojuhani Rautavaara, Helsinki Finland, composer (Kaivos)
1930 - Fjolnir Stefansson, composer
1937 - Pat Burke, rocker (Foundations)
1939 - O V Wright, rocker
1940 - Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer
1941 - Chucho Valdés, Cuban musician
1944 - Nona Hendrix, R and B singer (Patti LaBelle and Blue Belles)
1945 - Jeannie C Riley, Texas, singer (Harper Valley PTA, Hee Haw)
1945 - Taiguara, Brazilian musician (d. 1996)
1947 - France Gall, French singer
1948 - Jackson Browne, American musician/singer/songwriter
1954 - James Fearnley, English musician (The Pogues)
1958 - Al Jourgensen, American musician (Ministry)
1960 - Kenny Garrett, American jazz saxophonist
1969 - P.J. Harvey, English musician
1973 - Terry Balsamo, American guitarist
1973 - Steven Burns, American actor and musician
1973 - Fabio Lione, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1975 - Sean Lennon, American musician & son of Beatle John Lennon
1978 - Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
1979 - Alex Greenwald, American musician(Phantom Planet), actor, model
1984 - Ghetto, British musician
Deaths in Music
1769 - Marianus Konigsperger, composer, dies at 60
1781 - Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer, dies at 49
1821 - Georg-Friederich Fuchs, composer, dies at 68
1900 - Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer, dies at 57
1907 - Romualdo Marenco, composer, dies at 66
1937 - August de Boeck, composer, dies at 72
1941 - Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
1949 - Viktor Alexandrovich Uspensky, composer, dies at 70
1963 - Thurlow Weed Lieurance, composer, dies at 85
1978 - Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor (b. 1929)
1994 - Joan Dickson, cellist, dies at 72
1999 - Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1923)
Whats going on in the World Today?
- French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio is announced the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 2008 Pacific hurricane season : Tropical Storm Odile forms south of Mexico while Hurricane Norbert weakens to tropical storm strength northwest of Odile. (AP via Google News)
- Greece introduces a 100,000 Euro guarantee for the 230 billion Euro bank deposits in the country for three years, well above the EU-wide Ecofin-mandated minimum of 50,000 Euro for one year, and gives assurances that the Greek banking system is stable, while the Greek central bank announces a drop in the expected growth of the Greek economy to 3.3% (from 4%) because of decreased consumption caused by high petrol and food prices. (ekathimerini), (ekathimerini), (Forbes), (Wikinews)
- Kaupthing Bank is nationalized by Iceland's Financial Supervisory Authority. (Bloomberg)
- North Korea has forbidden ships to sail in an area of the Yellow Sea as it prepares for the launch of 10 short-range missiles. (Reuters) (BBC News)
- NATO commander U.S. Army Gen. Bantz J. Craddock asks member countries for authority to target drug trade in Afghanistan. (Reuters)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo accuses Rwanda of sending troops across the border, threatening the city of Goma. (BBC News)
- Suicide bomber attacks police headquarters in Pakistani capital of Islamabad wounding eight. Two air strikes in northwest of Pakistan kill 20 militants. (Reuters)
- Court in the United Kingdom hears of how two doctors planned car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow airports in revenge for how UK was treating Muslims (BBC News)
News and tidbits from this Day in History
1003 - Leif Erikson lands in L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada, becoming the first known European to reach North America.
1604 - Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
1824 - Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
1871 - The Great Chicago Fire is brought under control.
1989 - An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
1992 - A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
Holidays and Observances
- India - Vijayadashami: celebrating the victory of good over evil.
- RC Saints - Saint Denis, Saint Ghislain, Saint John Leonardi and Saint Louis Bertrand, patron saint of Colombia.
- South Korea - Hangul Day: celebrating the invention of hangul, the native Korean phonetic alphabet.
- Uganda - Independence Day (from Britain, 1962)
- Leif Erikson Day - in United States, Iceland and Norway: celebrating the first European landing in North America
- Ecuador - Guayaquil's Independence Day (from Spain 1820) (Dia de la independencia de Guayaquil)
- Romania - Romanian Holocaust Remembrance Day
- French Republican Calendar - Sarrasin (Buckwheat) Day, eighteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
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