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Today in Music History
1954 - Alan Freed leaves Cleveland to NYC for WINS radio
1956 - Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks
1968 - The Beatles perform their last live TV performance on the David Frost show. They perform their new hit Hey Jude.
Births in Music
1932 - Patsy Cline, Winchester Va, country singer (Crazy)
1979 - Pink, American singer
1672 - Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (d. 1703)
1736 - Bernardo Ottani, composer
1756 - Anton Teyber, composer
1767 - Karl August von Lichtenstein, composer
1779 - Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer
1792 - Joseph Netherclift, composer
1824 - Jaime Nunó, Spanish composer (d. 1908)
1826 - Disma Fumagalli, composer
1827 - Emil Naumann, composer
1841 - Anton¡n Dvorak, Nelahozeves Czech, composer (New World Symphony)
1863 - Gustavo Emilio Campa, composer
1870 - Hermann Hans Wetzler, composer
1894 - Willem FJ Pijper, Dutch composer/critic
1896 - Howard Dietz, American lyricist and librettist (d. 1983)
1897 - Jimmie Rodgers, Mendoza Miss, country singer/singing brakeman
1904 - Carlos Sanchez Malaga, composer
1919 - David Johan Kvandal, composer
1921 - Hans Ulrich Engelmann, German composer (Ophelia)
1925 - Magnus Blondal Johansson, composer
1925 - Heinz Lau, composer
1925 - Alexander Nikolayevich Kholminov, composer
1927 - Harlan Howard, American country music songwriter (d. 2002)
1929 - Christoph von Dohnanyi, Berlin Germany, conductor/pianist (Cleve Orch)
1933 - Eric Salzman, American composer
1933 - Asha Bhonsle, Indian singer
1934 - Peter Maxwell Davies, Manchester Engld, composer (Prolation, Taverner)
1935 - James Clay, saxophonist
1939 - Guitar Shorty, American musician
1941 - Dante Drowty, rocker
1942 - Sal Valentino, rocker
1942 - Brian Cole, Tacoma Wash, rock vocalist/bassist (Association)
1945 - Jose Feliciano, rocker
1945 - Kelly Groucutt, rocker
1945 - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Calif, rocker (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots)
1946 - Dean Daughtry, rock keyboardist (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1947 - Valery Afanassiev, Russian pianist
1950 - Zachary Richard, Louisiana singer and songwriter
1950 - Daniel Victor Starr, composer
1950 - Will Lee, bassist and singer (Late Show with David Letterman)
1951 - Nikos Karvelas, Greek composer
1956 - Frank Tovey, British musician (d. 2002)
1958 - David Lewis, guitarist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1958 - Michael Lardie, American musician
1959 - Daler Nazarov, Tajik composer and actor
1960 - Aimee Mann, American musician
1960 - David Steele, English musician
1962 - Rene Klijn, [Dorian], singer (Mr Blue)
1964 - Joachim Nielsen, Norwegian musician (d. 2000)
1966 - Carola, Swedish singer
1966 - Peter Furler, musician (Newsboys)
1970 - Neko Case, American musician
1975 - Richard Hughes, English musician (Keane)
1976 - Brendan Kelly, American musician (The Lawrence Arms)
Deaths in Music
1613 - Don Carlo Gesauldo, Italian composer
1637 - Robert Fludd, composer, dies at 63
1706 - Romanus Weichlein, composer, dies at 53
1819 - Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer, dies at 56
1838 - Pietro Rovelli, composer, dies at 45
1871 - Etienne-Joseph Soubre, composer, dies at 57
1879 - Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, composer, dies at 58
1899 - Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, composer, dies at 78
1917 - Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer, dies at 74
1944 - Jan van Gilse, composer/Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 63
1949 - Richard Strauss, German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 85
1960 - Johan J "Jussi" Bj”rling, Swedish epic tenor, dies at 49
1976 - Assen Karastoyanov, composer, dies at 83
1976 - Joaquin Zamacois Soler, composer, dies at 81
1978 - Pancho Vladigerov, composer, dies at 79
1984 - Rene Bernier, composer, dies at 79
1991 - Alex North, music composer (Spartacus), dies at 80 of cancer
1991 - Jo Budie, Dutch orch leader (KRO), dies
1994 - Edna Manilow, mother of singer Barry Manilow, dies at 70 of cancer
1999 - Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916)
Today in the News
- Hurricane Ike weakens to a Category 2 hurricane over Cuba. (AP via Biloxi SunHerald)
- US military are to 'review an inquiry' into an air raid on a village in Herat province, Afganistan, after a new video evidence emerged indicating 'scores of civilian deaths'. US air raid in Afganistan left up to 90 people dead, 'many of them women and children', the Afghan government and the UN said. However, US officials claimed earlier that 'no more than seven civilians died'. (BBC)
- 'Senior US soldiers and two military contractors' were training 80 Georgian special forces serviceman only 'month prior' these commandos entered South Ossetia on August, 8 night. MPRI, one of the contractors, is known also for training the Croatian military in 1995 'prior to their invasion of the ethnically-Serbian Krajina region, which led to the displacement of 200,000 refugees'. However, 'there is no evidence' that the contractors or US military knew these commandos 'were likely be used in the assault on South Ossetia'. (Financial Times)
- Serena Williams defeats Jelena Janković to win the U.S. Open for the third time, regaining the World Number 1 ranking for the first time in five years. (New York Times)
- Hurricane Ike damages 80 percent of homes in the Turks and Caicos Islands. (The Australian)
- Two suicide bombers strike in the police headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan killing six officers and wounding several more. (AP via International Herald Tribune)
- Subprime mortgage crisis: The United States federal government places mortgage financing companies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae into conservatorship. The Federal Housing Finance Agency will manage the companies on a temporary basis.(Reuters)
- Our Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced an early election scheduled for October 14. (BBC News)
- Kurt Beck, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany steps down. According to media reports, Frank Walter Steinmeier will become the candidate for Chancellor of Germany in the 2009 elections. (ARD German)
- Floods in Brahmaputra river have displaced estimated 2.1 million people and caused 24 deaths in north-eastern state of Assam, India. (Times of India)
- Voters in Hong Kong go to the polls for the Hong Kong legislative election, 2008. The Democratic Alliance remains the largest party in the legislature. (Xinhua), (Bloomberg)
- Xinhua reports that 20 people are trapped in a coal mine in the Henan province of China following flooding.
News from this Day in History
1504 - Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.
1888 - In England the first six Football League matches ever are played.
1930 - 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
1966 - The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC.
1971 - In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
Holidays and Observances
- 1551 - The foundation day in Vitória, Brazil
- Andorra - National day: Mare de Deu de Meritxell.
- Bahá'í Faith - Feast of 'Izzat (Might) - First day of the tenth month of the Bahá'í calendar.
- Former Yougoslavic Republic Of Macedonia - Independence day (from Yugoslavia, 1991).
- Malta - Feast of Our Lady of Victories (il-Vittorja); anniversary of the 1565 victory of the Knights of Malta over the Ottoman Empire; anniversary of the 1943 surrender of Italy to the Allied forces, marking the end of World War II hostilities on Malta.
- Fiestas de Santa Fe in New Mexico, USA.
- International Literacy Day
- Rhodri Day in Jersey, Channel Islands
- Adrian and Natalia of Nicomedia
- Birth of Mary (mother of Jesus)
- Pope Sergius I
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