/* * Music * * $OpenBSD: calendar.music,v 1.18 2005/09/12 21:07:28 sturm Exp $ */ #ifndef _calendar_music_ #define _calendar_music_ 01/01 Country Joe McDonald is born in El Monte, California, 1942 01/03 Steven Stills is born in Dallas, 1945 01/04 Jazz great Charlie Mingus dies at 57 in Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1979 01/06 Cesar Cui is born in Vilnius, Russia, 1835 01/07 Francis Poulenc is born in Paris, France, 1899 01/08 Elvis Presley is born, 1935 01/08 David Bowie (then David Robert Jones) is born in London, 1947 01/09 James Patrick Page (Led Zeppelin) is born in Middlesex, England, 1945 01/10 Blues guitarist Howlin' Wolf dies in Chicago, 1976 01/10 Jim Croce is born in Philadelphia, 1943 01/10 Pat Benatar is born in Long Island, 1952 01/10 Rod Stewart is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1945 01/13 Eric Clapton plays the "Rainbow Concert" in London, 1973 01/17 Led Zeppelin's first album is released, 1969 01/19 Janis Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, 1943 01/22 Sam Cooke is born in Chicago, 1935 01/24 Warren Zevon is born, 1947 01/25 Bob Dylan plays the second "Hurricane" benefit, in the Astrodome, 1978 01/27 Bobby "Blue" Bland (Robert Calvin Bland) is born in Tennessee, 1930 01/27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria, 1756 01/28 Jimi Hendrix headlines Madison Square Garden, 1970 01/30 Lightnin' Hopkins, the most-recorded blues artist ever, dies, 1982 01/30 Francis Poulenc dies in Paris, France, 1963 01/31 The Grateful Dead are busted in New Orleans, 1970 01/31 Franz Schubert is born in Lichtenthal, Vienna, Austria, 1797 02/01 RCA Victor unveils the 45 rpm record playing system, 1949 02/02 Graham Nash is born in Lancashire, England, 1942 02/03 The Day The Music Died; Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper are killed in a plane crash outside Mason City, Iowa, 1959 02/03 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy is born in Hamburg, Germany, 1809 02/07 Beatles land at JFK airport to begin first U.S. tour, 1964 02/07 Steven Stills makes the first digitally recorded rock album, 1979 02/08 John Towner Williams born in New York City, 1932 02/09 Carole King (Carole Klein) is born in Brooklyn, 1941 02/09 Alban Berg is born in Vienna, Austria, 1885 02/12 The Beatles play Carnegie Hall in New York City, 1964 02/13 Richard Wagner dies in Venice, Italy, 1883 02/15 William Howard Schuman dies, 1992 02/15 Mikhail Glinka dies, 1857 02/15 Georges Auric is born in Lodeve, Herault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, 1899 02/17 Jazz great Thelonius Monk dies in Englewood, New Jersey, 1982 02/18 Yoko Ono Lennon is born in Tokyo, 1933 02/19 Paul McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" is banned in Britain, 1972 02/19 William "Smokey" Robinson is born in Detroit, 1940 02/20 J. Geils (J. Geils Band) is born, 1946 02/20 Yes sells out Madison Square Garden...without advertising, 1974 02/23 George Friedrich Handel is born in Halle on the Salle, Germany, 1685 02/23 Johnny Winter is born in Leland, Mississippi, 1944 02/23 Sir Edward William Elgar dies 1934 02/25 George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, 1943 02/27 Alexander Borodin dies, 1887 02/29 Jimmy Dorsey born, 1904 03/01 Jim Morrison is busted for obscenity in Miami, 1969 03/01 Frederic Chopin is born in Zelazowa Wola, Warsaw, Poland, 1810 03/02 Blues guitarist Rory Gallagher is born in Ballyshannon, Ireland, 1949 03/03 Buffalo Springfield is formed in Los Angeles, 1966 03/04 Antonio Vivaldi born in Venice, Italy, 1678 03/05 Sergei Prokofiev dies in Moscow within minutes of Stalin, 1953 03/06 Zoltan Kodaly dies in Budapest, Hungary, 1967 03/06 John Philip Sousa dies, 1932 03/07 Last Gilbert & Sullivan opera produced, 1896 03/07 Maurice Ravel is born in Ciboure, France, 1875 03/08 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) dies in California, 1973 03/09 Robin Trower is born in London, 1945 03/10 Arthur Honegger is born in Le Havre, France, 1892 03/13 The Allman Brothers record their live album at the Fillmore East, 1971 03/13 Cesar Cui dies in Smolensk, Russia, 1918 03/15 Sly Stone born, 1944 03/17 Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane) is born in San Francisco, 1942 03/18 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is born Tikhvin, Russia, 1844 03/21 Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Germany, 1685 03/21 Modest Mussorgsky is born, 1839 03/22 Ten Years After plays their last concert, 1974 03/25 Aretha Franklin is born in Detroit, 1943 03/25 Bela Bartok is born in Nagyszentmiklos, Hungary, 1881 03/25 Claude Debussy dies in Paris, France, 1918 to the sound of World War I 03/26 Ludwig van Beethoven dies in Vienna, Austria, 1827 03/26 Emerson, Lake, and Palmer record "Pictures at an Exhibition" live, 1971 03/28 Sergei Rachmaninov dies in Beverley Hills, California, 1943 03/28 Modest Mussorgsky dies, 1881 03/29 Dr. Hook gets a group picture on the cover of "Rolling Stone", 1973 03/29 Carl Orff dies in Munich, Germany, 1982 03/30 Eric Clapton is born in Surrey, England, 1945 03/31 Joseph Haydn is born in Rohrau, Austria, 1732 04/01 Sergei Rachmaninov is born in Oneg, Russia, 1873 04/01 Scott Joplin dies in New York City, 1917 04/02 Marvin Gaye is born in Washington, D.C., 1939 04/03 Johannes Brahms dies in Vienna, Austria, 1897 04/04 Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) is born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, 1915 04/06 Igor Stravinsky dies in New York City, 1971 04/09 Paul Robeson born, 1898 04/10 Paul McCartney announces that he's quitting the Beatles, 1970 04/14 Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) is born, 1945 04/14 George Friedrich Handel dies in London, England, 1759 04/18 Yes breaks up after 13 years, 1981 04/19 Germaine Tailleferre is born at Saint Maur Des Fosses, Ile-de-France, France, 1892 04/25 Blues guitarist Albert King is born, 1925 04/25 Ella Fitzgerald born, 1918 04/26 Carol Burnett born in San Antonio, Texas, 1933 04/27 Sergei Prokofiev is born in Sontsovka, Russia, 1891 04/29 "Hair" premiers on Broadway, 1968 05/01 Kate Smith born, 1909 05/01 Antonin Dvorak dies in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1904 05/03 Bob Seger is born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1945 05/07 Johannes Brahms is born in Hamburg, Germany, 1833 05/07 Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky is born in Votkinsk, Russia, 1840 05/07 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is premiered in the Karntnertortheater in Vienna, Austria, 1824 05/10 Dave Mason is born in Worcester, England, 1945 05/11 Bob Marley dies in his sleep in Miami, Florida, 1981 05/12 Pink Floyd performs the first quadrophonic concert, 1977 05/17 Erik Satie is born in Honfleur, France, 1866 05/18 Rick Wakeman is born in West London, England, 1949 05/18 Gustav Mahler dies in Vienna, Austria, 1911 05/19 Pete Townshend is born in London, 1945 05/19 Charles Edward Ives is born in Danbury, Connecticut, 1874 05/20 The Jimi Hendrix Experience is signed by Reprise Records, 1967 05/22 Richard Wagner is born in Leipzig, Germany, 1813 05/23 Blues great Elmore James dies, 1963 05/24 Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman) is born in Duluth, 1941 05/26 Al Jolson is born, 1886 05/27 Louis Durey is born in Paris, France, 1888 05/29 Igor Stravinsky's ballet "Le sacre du printemps" premiere sparks riot in Paris, France, 1913 05/29 Claude Debussy's ballet "L'Apres-midi d'un faune" premieres in Paris, France, 1912 05/31 The Who perform the loudest concert ever -- 76,000 watts of PA, 1976 05/31 Joseph Haydn dies in Vienna, Austria, 1809 06/01 The Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper", 1967 06/01 Mikhail Glinka is born, 1804 06/02 Edward William Elgar is born in Lower Broadheath, England, 1857 06/03 Georges Bizet dies in Bougival, Paris, France, 1875 06/05 Carl Maria von Weber dies in London, England, 1826 06/06 "Rock Around The Clock" makes Billboard's #1 slot, 1955 06/06 Dee Dee Ramone dies, 2002 06/07 Blind Faith debuts in concert at London's Hyde Park, 1969 06/08 Robert Schumann is born in Zwickau, Germany, 1810 06/09 Les Paul (Lester Polfus) is born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1923 06/10 Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett) is born in West Point, Mississippi, 1910 06/10 Judy Garland is born, 1922 06/11 Richard Strauss is born in Munich, Germany, 1864 06/15 Harry Nilsson is born in Brooklyn, 1941 06/15 Edvard Grieg is born in Bergen, Norway, 1843 06/15 John Philip Sousa's march "The Washington Post" premiered, 1889 06/16 The Monterey Pop festival opens, 1967 06/17 Igor Stravinsky is born in Oranienbaum (now Lomonosov), Russia, 1882 06/18 Paul McCartney born in Liverpool, England, 1942 06/21 Columbia records announces the first mass production of LP's, 1948 06/21 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov dies in Lyubensk, Russia, 1908 06/22 Todd Rundgren is born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, 1948 06/22 Darius Milhaud dies in Geneva, Switzerland, 1974 06/24 Jeff Beck is born in Surrey, England, 1944 06/27 John Entwistle dies in Las Vegas, 2002 07/01 Erik Satie dies in Paris, France, 1925 07/02 Felix Pappalardi and Leslie West form Mountain, 1969 07/03 Jim Morrison dies in Paris, 1971 07/03 Louis Durey dies in Saint-Tropez, Var, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, 1979 07/07 Gustav Mahler is born in Kalischt, Bohemia, 1860 07/06 The Jefferson Airplane is formed in San Francisco, 1965 07/07 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born in Liverpool, England, 1940 07/10 Carl Orff is born in Munich, Germany, 1895 07/11 George Gershwin dies in Hollywood, California, 1937 07/12 Chicago DJ Steve Dahl holds "Disco Demolition" at Kamisky Park, 1979 07/13 Arnold Schoenberg dies in Los Angeles, California, 1951 07/14 Woodie Guthrie is born, 1912 07/16 Cream forms in the U.K., 1966 07/16 Harry Chapin dies on Long Island Expressway, 1981 07/17 "Yellow Submarine" premieres at the London Pavilion, 1968 07/20 Carlos Santana is born in Autlan, Mexico, 1947 07/23 Georges Auric dies, 1983 07/25 Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, 1965 07/25 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young debut at the Fillmore East, 1969 07/26 Mick Jagger is born in Kent, England, 1943 07/28 Johann Sebastian Bach dies in Leipzig, Germany, 1750 07/28 The Watkins Glen "Summer Jam" opens, 1973 07/29 Robert Schumann dies in Endenich, Bonn, Germany, 1856 07/31 Franz Liszt dies shortly before 11:30 in Bayreuth, Germany, 1886 08/01 The Concert for Bangla Desh takes place at Madison Square Garden, 1971 08/04 John Lennon points out that "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus", 1966 08/04 William Howard Schuman is born in the Bronx, New York, 1910 08/09 Dmitri Shostakovich dies of lung cancer in Moscow, Russia, 1975 08/10 Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1947 08/13 Dan Fogelberg is born in Peoria, Illinois, 1951 08/15 Beatles replace drummer Pete Best with Richard Starkey, 1962 08/15 The Beatles play Shea Stadium in New York, 1965 08/15 Woodstock Festival, Max Yasgur's farm, 1969 08/16 Elvis Presley [allegedly] dies, 1977 08/21 Joe Strummer (The Clash), born John Mellor in Ankara, Turkey, 1952 08/22 Claude Debussy is born in Yvelines, France, 1862 08/23 Keith Moon is born in London, England, 1946 08/25 Leonard Bernstein is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1918 08/26 Jimi Hendrix gives his last performance at the Isle of Wight, 1970 08/26 Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland Studios opens in New York, 1970 09/04 Edvard Grieg dies in Bergen, Norway, 1907 09/04 Anton Bruckner is born in Ansfelden, Austria, 1824 09/04 Darius Milhaud is born in Aix-en-Provence, France, 1892 09/07 Keith Moon (The Who) dies in London of a drug overdose, 1978 09/08 Anton Dvorak is born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia, 1841 09/08 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) is born in San Bruno, California, 1945 09/08 Richard Strauss dies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 1949 09/13 Arnold Schoenberg is born in Vienna, Austria, 1874 09/14 Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner", 1814 09/15 Anton Webern dies, 1945 09/16 B.B. King is born in Itta Bena, Mississippi, 1925 09/18 Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) born in Fort Lee, Virginia, 1952 09/19 Simon & Garfunkel reunite to play New York's Central Park, 1981 09/20 Jim Croce dies in a plane crash, 1973 09/20 Jean Sibelius dies in Ainola, Finland, 1957 09/23 "Paul is dead" rumors sweep the country, 1969 09/23 Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen is born in Freehold, New Jersey, 1949 09/25 John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) dies of alcohol poisoning, 1980 09/25 Dmitri Shostakovich is born in St. Petersberg, Russia, 1906 09/26 Bela Bartok dies in New York City, 1945 09/26 George Gershwin is born in Brooklyn, New York, 1898 10/04 Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose in Hollywood, 1970 10/05 Steve Miller is born in Dallas, 1943 10/07 First Bandstand (later, American Bandstand) broadcast, 1957 10/09 John Lennon born in Liverpool, England, 1940 10/09 John Entwistle is born in London, England, 1944 10/10 John Prine is born in Maywood, Illinois, 1946 10/11 Anton Bruckner dies in Vienna, Austria, 1896 10/12 The Jimi Hendrix Experience is formed in London, 1966 10/12 Ray Conniff dies after falling down and hitting his head, 2002 10/14 Leonard Bernstein dies in New York City, 1990 10/16 Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) is born in San Francisco, 1947 10/17 "Hair" opens at New York's Public Theater, 1967 10/17 Frederic Chopin dies in Paris, France, 1849 10/18 Chuck Berry is born in San Jose, California, 1926 10/20 Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a plane crash, 1977 10/20 Charles Edward Ives dies in New York City, 1954 10/21 "Jesus Christ Super Star" debuted on Broadway, 1971 10/22 Franz Liszt born in Doborjan, Hungary, 1811 10/22 Pablo Casals dies in Puerto Rico, 1973 10/25 Jon Anderson (Yes) is born in Lancashire, England, 1944 10/25 The Rolling Stones appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, 1964 10/25 Georges Berlioz is born in Paris, France, 1838 10/29 Duane Allman dies in motorcycle crash near Macon, Georgia, 1971 10/30 Grace Slick is born in Chicago, 1939 11/02 Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" enters US charts at #1, 1968 11/02 Keith Emerson is born, 1944 11/03 James Taylor and Carly Simon are married in Manhattan, 1972 11/04 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy dies in Leipzig, Germany, 1847 11/06 Ray Conniff born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, 1916 11/06 Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky dies in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1893 11/06 John Philip Sousa is born in Washington, D.C., 1954 11/07 Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) is born in Alberta, Canada, 1943 11/07 Germaine Tailleferre dies in Paris, France, 1983 11/08 Patti Page born, 1927 11/09 The first issue of "Rolling Stone" is published, 1967 11/10 Greg Lake is born in Bournemouth, England, 1948 11/12 Neil Young is born in Toronto, 1945 11/12 Alexander Borodin is born in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1833 11/13 Paul Simon born, 1942 11/14 Aaron Copland is born in Brooklyn, New York, 1900 11/16 Bill Ham first demonstrates his psychedelic "Light Show", 1965 11/18 Carl Maria von Weber is born in Eutin, Germany, 1786 11/19 Franz Schubert dies in Vienna, Austria, 1828 11/20 Duane Allman is born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1946 11/20 Joe Walsh is born in Cleveland, 1947 11/24 Scott Joplin born near Linden, Texas, 1867 11/25 "The Last Waltz" concert is played by The Band at Winterland, 1976 11/25 Johann Strauss, Jr., writes `On the Beautiful Blue Danube', 1867 11/26 Cream performs their farewell concert at Royal Albert Hall, 1968 11/26 Paul Hindemith is born in Hanau, Germany, 1895 11/27 Jimi Hendrix (Johnny Allen Hendrix) is born in Seattle, 1942 11/27 Arthur Honegger dies, 1955 11/29 Pau Casals born in Vendrell, 1876 11/30 George Harrison dies at 13:30 in L.A., 2001 12/02 Aaron Copland dies in Peekskill, New York, 1990 12/03 Anton Webern is born in Vienna, Austria, 1883 12/04 Frank Zappa dies in his Laurel Canyon home shortly before 18:00, 1993 12/05 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna, Austria, 1791 12/06 First sound recording made by Thomas Edison, 1877 12/06 The Rolling Stones play Altamont Speedway near San Francisco, 1969 12/07 Harry Chapin is born in New York City, 1942 12/08 Jim Morrison is born in Melbourne, Florida, 1943 12/08 John Lennon is shot and killed in New York City, 1980 12/08 Jean Sibelius is born in Hameenlinna, Finland, 1865 12/09 The Who's "Tommy" premieres in London, 1973 12/13 Ted Nugent, the motor city madman, born in Detroit, 1949 12/15 Thomas Edison receives patent on the phonograph, 1877 12/16 Don McLean's "American Pie" is released, 1971 12/16 Zoltan Kodaly is born in Kecskemet, Hungary, 1882 12/17 Ludwig van Beethoven is born in Bonn, Germany, 1770 12/21 Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, 1940 12/22 Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and Symphony No. 6 premier, underrehearsed, at Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria, 1808 12/23 First Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, Thespis, 1871 12/23 Joe Strummer (born John Mellor) dies in Broomfield, England, 2002 12/24 Alban Berg dies in Vienna, Austria, 1935 12/25 John Philip Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" composed, 1896 12/25 Leonard Bernstein conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 to honor the fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989, changing "freude" to "freedom". 12/28 Edgar Winter is born in Beaumont, Texas, 1946 12/28 Paul Hindemith dies in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 1963 12/28 Maurice Ravel dies in Paris, France, 1937 12/31 Jimi Hendrix introduces the Band of Gypsies at the Fillmore East, 1969 #endif /* !_calendar_music_ */