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Today in Music History
1926 - National Broadcasting Co created by Radio Corporation of America
1956 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
1966 - John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition
1971 - John Lennon releases "Imagine" album
1979 - Sid Bernstein offers a billion $ for a Beatle reunion
1979 - Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque
Births in Music
1941 - Otis Redding, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
1943 - George Roger Waters, bassist (Pink Floyd)
1946 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (d. 2004)
1975 - Michael Bublé, Canadian singer and actor
1583 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, composer
1618 - Joan Cererols, composer
1664 - Johann Christoph Pez, composer
1687 - Jean-Baptiste Maurice Quinault, composer
1752 - Johann Friedrich Christmann, composer
1850 - Leopoldo Miguez, composer
1865 - Edwin Lehare, composer
1872 - Josef Stransky, composer
1873 - Edward Burlingame Hill, composer
1892 - Bruno Sturmer, composer
1894 - Arthur Freed, American songwriter and film producer (d. 1973)
1896 - Fritz Reuter, composer
1899 - Louis Cheslock, composer
1920 - Aldo Parisot, American cellist and teacher
1921 - Andrzej Dobrowolski, composer
1922 - Hoyt Curtin, American songwriter (d. 2000)
1926 - Jake Carey, US RandB-singer (Flamingos-I Know Better)
1927 - Elvin Jones, American jazz drummer (d. 2004)
1928 - Julian E "Cannonball" Adderley, US jazz musician (Black Messiah)
1929 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (d. 2004)
1930 - Paolo Castaldi, composer
1936 - Augustinius Franz Kropfreiter, composer
1940 - Joe Negroni, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers)
1941 - Curtis Otto Bismark Curtis-Smith, composer
1942 - Inez Foxx, Greensboro NC, R&B singer (Mockingbird, Hi Diddle Diddle)
1942 - Luther Simmons, rocker (Main Ingredient)
1945 - Dee Dee Sharpe, [Dione Larue], US R&B singer (I Love You Anyway)
1946 - Pete Gavin, rocker
1946 - Doug Ingle, Omaha Nebraska, rock vocalist/keyboards (Iron Butterfly)
1946 - Billy Preston, Tx, singer/pianist, 5th Beatle
1947 - David Rosenboom, American composer
1947 - Freddy Weller, Georgia, rocker (Paul Revers and The Raiders)
1947 - Lol Creme, [Lawrence Creme], England, rock vocalist/guitarist (10cc)
1951 - Corry Konings, Dutch singer
1951 - Tom Wopat, American actor and singer
1952 - Manuel Göttsching, German musician (Ash Ra Tempel)
1952 - David A. Stewart, rock guitarist/musician (Eurtyhmics-Here Comes the Rain Again)
1957 - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, French pianist
1958 - Lita Ford, London England, vocalist (Kiss Me Deadly, Runaways)
1959 - Eric Serra, French composer
1967 - Chris Caffery, American guitarist and singer
1971 - Henry Thomas, American actor and musician
1974 - Mathias Färm, Swedish guitarist (Millencolin)
1974 - Ana Carolina, Brazilian singer, composer and musician
1976 - Kristoffer Rygg, Norwegian musician (Ulver, ex-Borknagar)
1977 - Chae Jung-an, South Korean actress and singer
1977 - Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
1982 - Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer and songwriter
Deaths in Music
1803 - Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer, dies at 32
1832 - Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer, dies at 39
1878 - Jacobo Ficher, composer, dies at 18
1951 - Cecil Gray, composer, dies at 56
1954 - Alfred Gradstein, composer, dies at 49
1957 - Ettore Pozzoli, composer, dies at 84
1959 - Max d' Ollone, composer, dies at 84
1960 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
1960 - Armas Toivo Valdemar Maasalo, composer, dies at 75
1964 - Charles O'Neill, composer, dies at 82
1965 - Julian Antonio Carillo-Trujillo, composer, dies at 90
1966 - Antonio Massana, composer, dies at 76
1974 - Sultan Ismail Hajibeyov, composer, dies at 55
1979 - Solon Michaelides, composer, dies at 73
1984 - Walter Kaufmann, composer, dies at 77
1993 - Helen O'Connell, singer (Green Eyes), dies of cancer at 74
1995 - Ida Carroll, musician, dies at 89
1996 - William Smith "Bill" Monroe, bluegrass vocalist (created bluegrass music), dies at 84
2006 - Richard Burmer, American composer, sound designer and electronic musician (b. 1955)
2007 - Hughie Thomasson, Noted American musician (b. 1952)
Today in the News
- Hurricane Ike makes its second landfall on Cuba, near San Cristóbal, north of the Isle of Youth, on its way into the Gulf of Mexico. (CNN)
- The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola wins the Angolan legislative election, 2008. (Reuters via The New York Times)
- Roger Federer defeats Andy Murray to win the U.S. Open for a record-breaking fifth consecutive time. (Fox Sports)
- Washington Mutual, the largest savings and loan in the United States, ousts Chief Executive Kerry Killinger as a result of losses incurred as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis. (The New York Times)
- A landslide triggered by heavy rain strikes a warehouse in Linfen in Shanxi province, China, killing at least 26 people and injuring others. (Canadian Press)
News from this Day in History
1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
1926 - The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed.
Holidays and Observances
- Japan - Chrysanthemum Day (Kiku no Sekku).
- North Korea - Republic Day (1948).
- Tajikistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).
- California - Admission Day (to commemorate the state's admission to the USA).
- Saint Ciarán of Clonmacnoi
- Eastern Orthodoxy - Synaxis of the Theopatores Joachim and Anna.
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