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Today is the birthdays of Hank Williams and Bill Black - So glad they were here on this earth although for only a short time.
Today in Music History
1964 - Beatles are paid a then record $150,000 for a concert (Kansas)
1976 - Ringo releases "Ringo's Rotogravure" album
Births in Music
1923 - Hank Williams, country singer (Move it on Over, Hey Good Lookin')
1926 - Bill Black, Bassist for early Elvis
1979 - Chuck Comeau, French Canadian drummer (Simple Plan)
1605 - Francesco Sacrati, composer
1711 - Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer
1748 - Robert Wainwright, composer
1767 - Henri-Montan Berton, composer
1795 - Giuseppi Saverio Rafaele Mercadante, composer
1814 - Stefano Ronchetti-Molnteviti, composer
1818 - Halfdan Kjeruif, composer (Kjerulf)
1821 - Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer
1849 - Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer
1859 - Richard Henry Warren, composer
1875 - Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Karatigin, composer
1877 - Jean Hure, composer
1878 - Vincenzo Tommasini, composer
1880 - Desire - mile Inghelbrecht, French composer/conductor (Naval)
1883 - Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson Berners, 14th baron/composer
1884 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Elmira NY, composer (White Peacock)
1885 - Uzeir Abdul Huseyn Hajibeyov, composer
1892 - Hendrik F Andriessen, Dutch organist/composer (Ballade of Merel)
1905 - Jorge Urrutia Blondel, composer
1908 - Franz J A Grothe, German composer
1913 - Jorgen Jersild, composer
1917 - Isang Yun, composer
1930 - Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist
1934 - Little Milton [Campbell], rocker
1939 - Lamonte McLemore, St Louis Mo, rock vocalist (5th Dimension)
1939 - Shelby Flint, American singer
1950 - Fee Waybill, Ohaha Neb, rocker (Tubes)
1952 - Steve Sanders, Richland Ga, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1954 - Joël-François Durand, French composer
1961 - Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King's X)
1963 - Steven Dye, English musician (Scarlet Party,The Alan Parsons Project)
1965 - Guy Picciotto, American musician (Rites of Spring, Fugazi)
1966 - Doug E. Fresh, American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer
1968 - Anastacia, American singer
1968 - Lord Jammer, rocker (Brand Nubian)
1969 - Keith Flint, singer/musician (Prodigy)
1974 - Mirah, American musician
1975 - Constantine Maroulis, American singer
1981 - Jonathan Radtke, American musician (Kill Hannah)
1983 - Jennifer Peña, American singer
1985 - Jon Walker, American musician (Panic at the Disco)
Deaths in Music
1179 - Hildegard van Bingen, mystic/composer (Ordo Virtutum), dies at 81
1604 - Lucas Osiander, composer, dies at 69
1702 - Olof Rudbeck, composer, dies at 71
1732 - Josef Antonin Planicky, composer, dies at 40
1762 - Francesco Xaverio Geminiani, Italian violinist, composer, dies at 74
1803 - Franz Xaver Sussmayr, Austrian composer
1820 - Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76
1824 - Giacomo Tritto, composer, dies at 91
1846 - Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer, dies at 84
1884 - Louis Schubert, composer, dies at 56
1907 - Ignaz Brull, Austrian pianist, composer, dies at 60
1934 - Edmund van der Straeten, composer, dies at 79
1951 - Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
1953 - Henry Holden Huss, composer, dies at 91
1960 - Jose Sancho Marraco, composer, dies at 81
1966 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58), dies at 35
1973 - Hugo Winterhalter, American composer and bandleader, dies at 63
1979 - Miloslav Kabelac, composer, dies at 71
1982 - Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
1991 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
1994 - John DeLaFose, zydeco musician, dies at 55
1996 - Jessie "Ooh Poo Pah Doo" Hill, jazz musician, dies at 63
1999 - Frankie Vaughan, British singer (b. 1928)
2005 - Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)
Today in the News 1 Year Ago
- Trading is suspended for the second day in succession on Russia's two main stock exchanges (the MICEX and the dollar-denominated RTS) after shares fall dramatically, forcing the central bank in Moscow to intervene.(The Times) (Bloomberg)
- Russia's government lends the country's three biggest banks, Sberbank, VTB Bank and Gazprombank, as much as 1.13 trillion rubles ($44 billion) for at least three months to boost liquidity. (Bloomberg)
- Islamic Jihad claim responsibility for an attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen that results in 16 confirmed deaths. (NYTimes)
- The BBC reports that British bank HBOS is in advanced talks with Lloyds TSB as HBOS share prices plummet as a result of exposure to the subprime mortgage crisis. (AP via International Herald Tribune)
- India deploys Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear warheads in Jammu and Kashmir amidst continuing ceasefire violations with Pakistan along the Line of Control. (Times of India)
- 2008 Thai political crisis: Somchai Wongsawat has been elected as the next Prime Minister of Thailand by the National Assembly of Thailand with King Bhumibol Adulyadej having to endorse the selection. (AFP via The Canberra Times)
- BAA Limited decides to sell Gatwick Airport following a recent ruling by the United Kingdom Competition Commission. (BBC)
News from this Day in History
1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
1787 - The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1814 - Francis Scott Key finishes his poem The Star-Spangled Banner.
1908 - The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
1920 - The National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
1939 - Taisto Mäki becomes the first man to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, in a time of 29:52.6.
1956 - Television is first broadcast in Australia.
1983 - Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
Holidays and Observances
- The fourth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries in ancient Greek mythology, when the initiates sacrificed a pig.
- RC Saints - Feasts of Saint Lambert (martyr), Hildegard of Bingen, Albert Avogadro, Alan, Robert Bellarmine.
- Angola - National Heroes' Day.
- Netherlands - Operation Market Garden is still remembered with parachuting and dedications on this day.
- United States - Constitution Day (observed on the previous Friday if it falls Saturday, the following Monday if on a Sunday), Citizenship Day, Von Steuben Day.
- Christian martyrs Socrates and Stephen
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