Music Events:

• 1896 - Giacomo Puccini's La bohème debuts in Turin


• 1916 - Carl Nielsen conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 4, the Inextinguishable, in Copenhagen


• 1964 - Indiana Governor Matthew E. Welsh declares the song "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen pornographic. He requests that the Indiana Broadcasters Association ban the record. Governor Welsh claimed that his "ears tingle" when he heard the song. Publisher Max Firetag offers $1,000 to anyone that can find anything "suggestive" in the song's lyrics.


• 1968 - Universal Studios offers the Doors $500,000 to star in a feature film. The film is never made


• 2006 - Vienna State Opera announced Seiji Ozawa, a Conductor concurrently works as a Music Director of the Opera, has had to cancel all his performance commitments for 2006 due to health reasons.

Musician Birthdays:

• 1690 - Francesco Maria Veracini - Composer


• 1859 - Victor Herbert - Composer


• 1894 - James P. Johnson - Jazz Musician


• 1907 - Camargo Guarnieri - Composer


• 1909 - George Beverly Shea - Singer/Songwriter


• 1922 - Renata Tebaldi - Singer


• 1937 - Don Everly - Musician


• 1948 - Rick James - Musician


• 1954 - Bill Mumy - Actor


• 1956 - Exene Cervenka - Singer


• 1964 - Dwayne Goettel - Musician


• 1968 - Lisa Marie Presley - Singer

Musician Deaths:

• 1824 - Maria Theresia Paradis
- Composer

• 1971 - Bob Hilliard
- Songwriter

• 1981 - Ernst Pepping
- Composer

• 2002 - Hildegard Knef
- Actor

• 2007 - Gian-Carlo Menotti
- Composer