On This Day in Music
Events in Music
- 1902 "The Wizard of Oz" musical first opens in Chicago, Illinois
- 1958 "Flip Top Box" by Dicky Doo & The Don'ts hits #46
- 1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West at Le Bourget Airport in Paris
- 1967 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival
- 1977 "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway
- 1979 "Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6
- 1980 Musical comedy film "Blues Brothers" with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi premieres in Chicago
- 1989 "Ghostbusters II" directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murry and Dan Aykroyd premieres
Birthdays in Music
Tupac Shakur
(1971 - 1996)
Diana DeGarmo
32nd Birthday
Deaths in Music
- 1651 Marsilio Casentini, composer, dies at 74
- 1804 Johann Adam Hiller, composer, dies at 75
- 1808 Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60
- 1831 Josef Schnabel, German composer, dies at 64
Weddings in Music
- 1996 Soap opera actress-singer Kassie Wesley (35) weds James De Paiva (39) in Morganfield, Kentucky
- 2005 "American Idol" singer Bo Bice (29) weds Caroline Fisher at New Hope Presbyterian Church in Alabama
- 2007 Rock singer Rod Stewart (62) weds model Penny Lancaster (36) in a cloistered medieval abbey at La Cervara