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Today in Music History
1968 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Hey Jude,'' The Beatles. The song is the biggest for the best-selling rock group of all time. It stays at No. 1 for nine weeks.
1988 - "Don't Worry, Be Happy," by Bobby McFerrin, is the first a cappella song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. McFerrin's bubbly No. 1 hit gets former president George Bush in trouble when the hopeful Republican uses the song without permission as an election campaign song.
1991 - Nirvana's breakthrough album "Nevermind" is released.
Births in Music
1725 - Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803) - not a musician but.... you know!
1923 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1950)
1965 - Sean McNabb, American bassist (Quiet Riot, Great White, Rough Cutt, House of Lords)
1667 - Jean-Louis Lully, composer
1748 - Philipp Meissner, composer
1773 - Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer
1806 - George Alexander Osborne, composer
1859 - Julius Klengel, cellist/composer
1899 - Eduardo Hernandez Moncada, composer
1904 - Cemal Resit Rey, composer
1907 - Pierre Moulaert, composer
1910 - Frank Pelleg, composer
1914 - Andrzej Panufnik, Warsaw Poland, composer (Tragic Overture)
1919 - Vaclav Nelhybel, Polanka Czechoslovakia, composer (Everyman)
1921 - Leonardo Lopez Salzedo, composer
1922 - Cornell MacNeil, American baritone
1927 - Richard Swift, composer
1927 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
1931 - Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (d. 1999)
1940 - Barbara Allbut, Orange NJ, rock vocalist (Angels)
1941 - Linda Eastman McCartney, NYC, Mrs Paul McCartney, singer/keyboards (Wings)
1942 - Phyllis "Jiggs" Allbut Meister, Orange NJ, rocker (Angels)
1942 - Gerry Marsden, rock vocalist (Gerry and Pacemakers-Ferry crossed Mersey)
1942 - Ilkka "Danny" Lipsanen, Finnish singer
1946 - Carson Van Osten, rocker
1946 - Jerry Donahue, rocker (Fairport Convention)
1946 - Marc Edward Neikrug, composer
1948 - Heinz Chur, German composer
1952 - Mark Sandman, American musician (d. 1999)
1969 - Gene Hunt, R&B musician (Acid Man)
1969 - Shawn "Clown" Crahan, American musician (Slipknot)
1971 - Peter Salisbury, English drummer (The Verve)
1986 - Leah Dizon, American model and singer
Deaths in Music
1605 - Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (bc. 1547)
1646 - Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (bc. 1565)
1755 - Georg Gebel, composer, dies at 45
1813 - Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, composer, dies at 72
1855 - Alexandre Stievenard, composer, dies at 86
1865 - Frantiszek Soltyk, composer, dies at 81
1875 - William Walker, composer, dies at 66
1881 - Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, composer, dies at 74
1892 - Patrick S Gilmore, composer, dies at 62
1910 - Rudolf Dellinger, composer, dies at 53
1934 - Edwin Lehare, composer, dies at 69
1949 - Pierre Breville, composer, dies at 88
1960 - Matyas Seiber, composer, dies at 55
1968 - Harry Robert Wilson, composer, dies at 67
1980 - John Bonham, British Drummer (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
1983 - Isobel Baillie, oratorio singer
1991 - Peter Bellamy, British folk singer (b. 1944)
1993 - Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)
2003 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)
More Today in Music History
1984 - Paul McCartney releases "No More Lonely Nights"
1993 - Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler reaches a $2.5 million settlement in his lawsuit against the group and managers. Adler was thrown out of the band because he couldn't kick his heroin habit. The agreement was reached shortly before the lawsuit would have gone to the Superior Court jury. Adler's lawyer said the drummer sued to set aside a 1990 agreement he signed giving up his partnership interest in the band. During the trial, Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash testified that Adler was ``strung out'' when he signed the agreement.
1998 - Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler, 33, is sentenced to 150 days in jail for beating two women he dated and for violating his probation from an earlier domestic violence conviction.
1999 - Hank Williams is the subject of the first-ever country music symposium at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. "A Tribute To Hank Williams" begins with Lucinda Williams, Kim Richey, Kathy Mattea, and Steve Earle performing the works of the late country music godfather.
2002 - Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt switches gears to music as she releases her album "Bare Naked," via Jive Records.
Today in the News
- Preliminary findings made for the American Geophysical Union that support the Clathrate gun hypothesis, indicate the possible release of millions of tons of greenhouse gas methane from Arctic seabeds. (The Independent)
- The Diet of Japan elects Taro Aso of the Liberal Democratic Party as the new Prime Minister of Japan. (AP via CNN) (AFP)
- Tomislav Nikolić announces that his party (a splinter from the Serbian Radical Party) will be called Serbian Progressive Party and that it will be founded on 21 October 2008. (B92)
- Government officials say that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into possible fraud for mortgage financing companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, and insurer American International Group. (AP via CNNMoney)
- The Large Hadron Collider near Geneva is shut down until the northern spring while engineers probe magnet failures. (BBC News)
News from this Day in History
622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
1789 - The office of the Attorney General of the United States of America, and the United States Post Office Department, are established.
1852 - The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
1869 - "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument.
1935 - Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi.
1947 - Majestic 12 is allegedly established by secret executive order of President Harry Truman
1948 - The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1950 - Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A Blue moon (in the astronomical sense) is seen as far away as Europe.
1957 - Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
1990 - Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn.
1994 - National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
Holidays and Observances
- Late Roman Empire - start of the indiction year (at least since the time of Bede).
- In ancient Latvia, the third day of Mikeli, and the only day of the year during which men proposed to their prospective wives.
- Catholic Calendar: Our Lady of Mercy and Our Lady of Walsingham.
- Guinea-Bissau - Independence Day (declared, from Portugal, 1973).
- New Caledonia - Territorial Day.
- England - Our Lady of Walsingham.
- South Africa - Heritage Day.
- Barcelona, Spain - La Mercè the festival for Barcelona's patron saint. A lot of art and musical activities.
- Trinidad and Tobago - Republic Day (1976).
- French Republican Calendar - Châtaigne (Chestnut) Day, third day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
- Kings Day - Celebrating Birthday of Rajadhiraja, Sriraj.
- Feast day of Rupert of Salzburg in the Roman Catholic Church, Holiday in Salzburg.
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