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Today in Music History
1869 - Richard Wagner's opera "Rhine Gold," premieres in Munich
1985 - Rock and country musicians participate in FarmAid in Champaign, Ill
Births in Music
1929 - Serge Garant, French Canadian conductor (d. 1986)
1958 - Andrea Bocelli, Italian tenor
1720 - Adolph Carl Kunzen, composer
1729 - George Wilhelm Gruber, composer
1733 - Anton Filtz, composer
1860 - Heinrich Reitsch, composer
1870 - Arthur Willard Pryor, composer
1872 - Luis Villalba Munoz, composer
1875 - Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer (d. 1911)
1882 - Emil Abranyi, composer
1883 - Robert Franz Richard Hernried, composer
1891 - Hans Albers, German actor and singer (d. 1960)
1894 - Hieronim Feicht, composer
1910 - Klement Slavicky, composer
1913 - Leroy Holmes, Pittsburgh Pa, orch leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57)
1918 - Henryk Szeryng, Zelazowa Wola, Poland, violinist (Brahms Concerto)
1918 - Archibald James Potter, composer
1919 - Jack Russell, Saratoga Springs NY, singer (Your Show of Shows)
1926 - William O Smith, composer
1929 - Serge Garant, composer
1930 - Roger Durham Hannay, composer
1933 - Leonardo Balada, composer
1940 - Edward Boguslawski, composer
1943 - Toni Basil, American singer
1946 - King Sunny Ade, Nigerian singer
1948 - Jim Byrnes, American actor and musician
1949 - David Coverdale, England, rock vocalist (Whitesnake, Deep Purple)
1950 - Kirka, Finnish singer (d. 2007)
1952 - Gary Holton, English actor and musician (d. 1985)
1954 - Shari Belafonte, American singer, actor, model
1956 - Debby Boone, Hackensack NJ, singer (You Light Up My Life)
1956 - Masayuki Suzuki, Japanese singer (Rats & Star)
1957 - Nick Cave, Australian musician
1957 - Johnette Napolitano, rocker (Concrete Blonde)
1957 - Pete Jones, rocker
1960 - Joan Jett, Phila, singer/guitarist (Blackhearts-I Love Rock 'n Roll)
1964 - Marq Torien, rocker (Bullet Boys-For Love of Money)
1965 - Andy Cairns, Irish musician
1966 - Moustafa Amar, Egyptian singer
1969 - Matt Sharp, American musician (Weezer, The Rentals)
1970 - Mystikal, American rapper
1971 - Chesney Lee Hawkes, England, singer (Feels So Alive)
1975 - Svilen Noev, Bulgarian singer-songwriter
1979 - Emilie Autumn, American singer, violinist, and harpsichordist
1981 - Adam Lazzara, American singer (Taking Back Sunday)
1981 - Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer, dancer, actor (Kanjani8)
1982 - Mandy Chiang, Hong Kong singer and actress
1982 - Billie Piper, English singer and actress
1984 - Theresa Fu, Hong Kong singer and actress
1984 - Ross Jarman, Drummer The Cribs
1984 - Eduardo Rubio, Mexican pilot and pianist
1988 - Bethany Dillon, American musician
Deaths in Music
1712 - Jose Solana, composer, dies at 69
1737 - Francesco Mancini, composer, dies at 65
1737 - Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, composer, dies at 69
1796 - George Wilhelm Gruber, composer, dies on 67th birthday
1796 - Joseph Lederer, composer, dies at 63
1905 - Galli-Mari‚, French mezzo-soprano, dies at 64
1927 - Giannotto Bastianelli, composer, dies at 44
1935 - Karl Schroder, composer, dies at 86
1959 - Josef Matthais Hauer, composer, dies at 76
1975 - Franz Salmhofer, composer, dies at 75
1981 - Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (b. 1893)
1987 - John F "Jaco" Pastorius, jazz bassist (Weather Report), dies at 35
1987 - Louis Philip Kentner, composer, dies at 82
1989 - Irving Berlin, composer (God Bless America), dies at 101
1993 - Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)
1994 - John Edward Teddy Buckner, trumpeter, dies at 85
1994 - Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician, dies at 80
1994 - Mattie Moss Clark, gospel Singer, dies at 69
1995 - Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer, dies at 62
2001 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)
News from this day two years ago
- South Africa's ruling African National Congress party names deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe as the successor to President Thabo Mbeki. (Bloomberg)
- More than 18,000 archived radio programs are indefinitely lost after the main computer server at Sweden's National Radio crashed last month. (Resume)
- Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party chooses former Foreign Minister of Japan Taro Aso as the next Prime Minister of Japan replacing Yasuo Fukuda. (AFP)
- 15 people, including 11 foreign nationals, are kidnapped near Aswan in southern Egypt. (BBC)
- Radiocarbon dating estimates that Stonehenge was constructed around 2300 BC. (BBC)
- Mad Men wins the Emmy Award for Best Drama and 30 Rock wins for Best Comedy at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards. (Reuters)
- Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the two last remaining independent investment banks on Wall Street, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis. (The New York Times)
- The number of babies in China hospitalized due to adulterated milk products and infant formula approaches 13,000. (AFP) (CNN)
- The Social Democrats, led by Borut Pahor, presumably win the Slovenian parliamentary election. (AFP via Melbourne Herald-Sun)
- The United States wins the Ryder Cup for the first time since 1999. (The Times)
- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert officially submits his resignation to President Shimon Peres. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni begins talks on forming a new government. (AP via Google News)
- Tyrone beat Kerry 1-15 to 0-14 to win the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 2008. (RTÉ)
News from this Day in History
1692 - Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.
1784 - Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.
1789 - The position of United States Postmaster General is established.
1823 - Joseph Smith, Jr. claims that he was directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where the Golden plates were stored.
1862 - Slavery in the United States: a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released.
1888 - The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
1893 - The first American-made automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, is displayed.
1896 - Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1910 - The Duke of York's Cinema opens in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
1927 - Jack Dempsey loses the Long Count boxing match to Gene Tunney.
1951 - The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
1991 - The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.
2003 - David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
Holidays and Observances
- Annually on September 22 OneWebDay is celebrated.
- In ancient Greece, the ninth and final day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the initiates made offerings to the dead.
- Some Latter-Day Saints recognise it as "Trumpet Day," or the day that Joseph Smith received the golden plates, which later became The Book of Mormon, from the angel Moroni.
- RC Saints - It has been or still is the feast day of the following saints:
- Saint Candidus
- Saints Saint Digna & Saint Emerita
- Saint Emmeramus
- Saint Maurice
- Saint Phocas
- Saint Salaberga
- Theban Legion
- Saint Thomas of Villanueva
- French Republican Calendar - Raisin (Grape) Day, first day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
- Bulgaria - Independence Day (from The Ottoman Empire) 1908.
- Mali - Independence Day (from France, 1960).
- In Europe and in cities throughout the world, Car Free Day.
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