Music History for
December 16
Today's:
1770 - Composer Ludwig Van Beethoven was born.
1775 - Composer Francois-Adrien Boieldieu was born.
1882 - Composer Zoltan Kodaly was born.
1893 - Anton Dvorak attended the first performance and the official world premiere of his New World Symphony at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
1907 - Eugenia H. Farrar became the first singer to broadcast on radio. She sang from the USS Dolphin docked at Brooklyn Navy Yard.
1940 - Bob Crosby and his Bobcats backed up Bing as "San Antonio Rose" was recorded for Decca Records.
1966 - The Jimi Hendrix single "Hey Joe" was released in the U.K.
1967 - The Lemon Pipers released the single "Green Tambourine."
1971 - Don McLean’s eight-minute-plus version of "American Pie" was released.
1977 - The Saturday Night Fever film opened in the U.S.
1983 - Pete Townshend announced he was leaving The Who. This was effectively the first break up of the band.
1993 - The musical The Red Shoes opened.
1993 - MTV aired Nirvana's New York Unplugged performance.
1997 - Bobby Brown settled out of court with Althea Durant. Durant had claimed that she paid him $30,000 for a show in Trinidad that he never played.
1999 - Former Sex Pistols manager, Malcolm McLaren, announced plans to join the race for London's first-ever elected mayor.
2002 - Liza Minnelli and her husband, David Gest, filed a $23 million dollar lawsuit against VH1, MTV Networks, Viacom and Remote Productions, Inc. for breach of contract. The lawsuit was filed because plans were dropped on a reality show that was centered on the lives of Minnelli and Gest.
2004 - The iTunes Music Store reached 200 million songs sold.
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