PlannedSickDays
04-13-2009, 12:21 PM
1742 - George Frideric Handel's "Messiah" was first performed publicly, in Dublin, Ireland.
1816 - Composer Sir William Sterndale Bennett was born.
1958 - Van Cliburn of Kilgore, TX, earned 1st prize in the Soviet Union's Tchaikovsky International Piano Contest in Moscow. He was the first American to win the award.
1967 - The Rolling Stones performed their first concert behind the Iron Curtain at the Palace of Culture in Warsaw, Poland.
1969 - Diana Ross appeared solo on Dinah Shore's NBC-TV special "Like Hep".
1970 - Led Zeppelin became the first band to sell out the Montreal Forum.
1971 - The Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar" the first record on their own label, Rolling Stones Records.
1973 - Roger Daltrey (Who) released his first solo album "Daltrey."
1979 - David Lee Roth collapsed from exhaustion during a Van Halen show in Spokane, WA.
1980 - The Broadway musical "Grease" closed after 3,883 performances.
1982 - David Crosby (Byrds, CSN) was arrested for the second time in three weeks for drugs in Dallas.
1985 - The single "We Are the World" hit #1 in the U.S.
1985 - "The Grand Ole Opry" debuted on television.
1994 - Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley announced that they were separating.
1999 - VH1 debuted their Internet radio station called VH1 at Work. The first webcast was the "Divas Live" concert.
1999 - Yoko Ono sued Fredieric Seaman over personal effects of the late John Lennon. Seaman, a former assistant to Lennon, was accused of "an elaborate scheme" to "exploit Lennon's death by stealing priceless personal and sentimental items."
2000 - Heather Mills won $316,700 in damages for a 1993 accident that involved a British motorcycle officer. Mills, Paul McCartney's girlfriend, received the out-of-court-settlement without any admission of guilt for the loss of her left leg.
2000 - Gavin Rossdale (Bush) collapsed at the end of a show in Los Angeles. Tests were planned even though he was feeling much better the next day.
http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/music/apr13.htm
1816 - Composer Sir William Sterndale Bennett was born.
1958 - Van Cliburn of Kilgore, TX, earned 1st prize in the Soviet Union's Tchaikovsky International Piano Contest in Moscow. He was the first American to win the award.
1967 - The Rolling Stones performed their first concert behind the Iron Curtain at the Palace of Culture in Warsaw, Poland.
1969 - Diana Ross appeared solo on Dinah Shore's NBC-TV special "Like Hep".
1970 - Led Zeppelin became the first band to sell out the Montreal Forum.
1971 - The Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar" the first record on their own label, Rolling Stones Records.
1973 - Roger Daltrey (Who) released his first solo album "Daltrey."
1979 - David Lee Roth collapsed from exhaustion during a Van Halen show in Spokane, WA.
1980 - The Broadway musical "Grease" closed after 3,883 performances.
1982 - David Crosby (Byrds, CSN) was arrested for the second time in three weeks for drugs in Dallas.
1985 - The single "We Are the World" hit #1 in the U.S.
1985 - "The Grand Ole Opry" debuted on television.
1994 - Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley announced that they were separating.
1999 - VH1 debuted their Internet radio station called VH1 at Work. The first webcast was the "Divas Live" concert.
1999 - Yoko Ono sued Fredieric Seaman over personal effects of the late John Lennon. Seaman, a former assistant to Lennon, was accused of "an elaborate scheme" to "exploit Lennon's death by stealing priceless personal and sentimental items."
2000 - Heather Mills won $316,700 in damages for a 1993 accident that involved a British motorcycle officer. Mills, Paul McCartney's girlfriend, received the out-of-court-settlement without any admission of guilt for the loss of her left leg.
2000 - Gavin Rossdale (Bush) collapsed at the end of a show in Los Angeles. Tests were planned even though he was feeling much better the next day.
http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/music/apr13.htm