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Today In Music History
1863 - Opera "Pescatori di Perle" is produced (Paris)
1915 - Dutch Opera's 1st performance
1963 - Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley and Everly Bros)
Births in Music
1907 - Gene Autry, American actor, singer, musician and businessman (d. 1998)
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis, Feriday La, Country/Rock N' Roll singer/piano player (Whole Lotta Shakin')
1980 - Dallas Green, Canadian musician (Alexisonfire,City and Colour)
1654 - Vincenz Lubeck, composer
1674 - Jacques Hotteterre, composer
1727 - Henry Harington, composer
1746 - Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer
1753 - Johann Gottfried Schict, composer
1794 - William Michael Rooke, composer
1849 - Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer
1854 - Martin Pluddemann, composer
1855 - Michele Esposito, composer
1858 - Leopoldo Mugnone, composer
1879 - Joaquin Nin y Castellanos, composer
1884 - Boris Asafiev, composer
1894 - Franco Capuana, composer
1903 - Karl August Andersen, composer
1916 - Minao Shibata, composer
1918 - Harold Laurence Walters, composer
1939 - Tommy Boyce, American songwriter
1940 - Nicola Di Bari, Italian singer
1941 - Don Nix, US saxophonist (Last Night)
1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty, France, fusion violinist (Frank Zappa)
1943 - Manuel Fernandez, rocker
1944 - Mike Post, composer (Rockford Files, Hill St Blues, Magnum PI)
1945 - Kyriacos Sfetsas, Greek composer
1946 - Nick Taylor, singer/guitarist (Bloodrock)
1948 - Mike Pinear, rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly)
1948 - Mark Farner, Mich, guitar/vocalist (Grand Funk Railroad)
1948 - Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist
1949 - George Dalaras, Greek singer
1956 - Suzzy Roche, rocker (Roches)
1957 - Mari Wilson, British singer
1957 - Sokratis Malamas, Greek singer and composer
1960 - Alan McGee, British music industry mogul and musician
1962 - Al Pitrelli, American musician and guitarist
1963 - Les Claypool, US funk metal singer/bassist (Primus-Suck on This)
1967 - Brett Anderson, British musician/singer (Suede, The Tears)
1968 - Luke Goss, rocker (Bros-I Owe You Nothing)
1968 - Matt Goss, rocker (Bros-I Owe You Nothing)
1969 - Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer
1971 - Sibel Tüzün, Turkish singer
1973 - Scout Niblett, British singer/songwriter
1977 - Debelah Morgan, American R&B singer
1978 - Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
1978 - Gunner McGrath, American guitarist (Much the Same)
1982 - Rob Smith, Irish musician and songwriter
1988 - Justin Nozuka, singer/songwriter
Deaths in Music
1800 - William Billings, US composer (Rose of Sharon), dies at 53
1902 - Iosif Ivanovici, composer
1915 - Luther Orlando Emerson, composer, dies at 95
1915 - Rudi Stephan, composer, dies at 28
1958 - Aare Merikanto, composer, dies at 65
1977 - Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin, Russian composer, dies at 78
1991 - Zapata Jaw, [Nelson Renfrum], Surinamese musician
1994 - Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer, murdered at 26
1994 - John Heddle Nash, singer, dies at 68
1995 - Seger Pillot Ellis, pianist/vocalist, dies at 91
2006 - Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
Today in the News
- Russian equities fall sharply, joining a broad sell-off in emerging-market equities, as investors dumped risky assets on concerns that the U.S. government's bailout plan will not be enough to stem the financial crisis. (MarketWatch)
- Citigroup acquires the banking operations of Wachovia, the troubled Charlotte, N.C.-based bank. Under the agreement, Citigroup will absorb up to $42 billion of losses on a $312 billion pool of loans, while the U.S. Government will take losses beyond that. (MarketWatch)
- Head of the Swedish National Debt Office Bo Lundgren says that the $700 billion U.S. financial industry bailout is based on too optimistic valuations, and may not be enough to restore confidence in the financial system. (Dagens industri)
- The German government and private banks inject 35 billion Euros into the struggling Hypo Real Estate, a bank that is heavily involved in the real estate business. The bank had been stuggling because its Irish subsidy Depfa Bank had suffered massive losses during the subprime mortgage crisis. The HRE is the first company from the DAX that had to be rescued by the government in recent memory. (Handelsblatt.com)
- The Government of Iceland takes control of the country's number three bank, the struggling Glitnir Bank (Reuters) (International Herald Tribune)
- The British Government confirm that the mortgage and loans components of Bradford & Bingley will be nationalised, whilst the company's savings operations will be sold to the Spanish banking group, Grupo Santander. (BBC News) The financial crisis around Europe deepened with the nationalization of Fortis and a cash infusion from the benelux states amounting to €11.2 billion.
- A car bomb explodes near a bus carrying Lebanese Army troops to work in Tripoli, Lebanon kills at least five people and injures 21. (AP via Fox News)
- Floods caused by Typhoon Hagupit cause at least 41 deaths in northern Vietnam. (News Limited)
- Sweden’s official debt collection agency is suffering from severe economic problems after having over-spent and over-borrowed and may be forced to cut staff to stop the bleeding. (The Local)
News from this Day in History
61 BC - Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
1885 - The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1916 - John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
1954 - Major League Baseball: Willie Mays of the then New York Giants makes "The Catch" at The Polo Grounds in Game 1 of the World Series.
1962 - Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
1964 - The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
1966 - The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
Holidays and Observances
- RC Saints - Michaelmas - Christian feast of the Archangels St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael.
- England, Ireland - One of the four Quarter days in the Irish calendar.
- Argentina, Inventor's Day - László József Bíró's birthday.
- French Republican Calendar - Amarante (Amaranth) Day, eighth day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
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