| January 25, 2007 | -
New Jersey warned its residents against eating heavy metal-contaminated squirrels.
| Source:
AP via ThePittsburghChannel.com
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| July 11, 2006 | -
Syd Barrett died.
| Source 1:
Reuters Alertnet
Source 2:
BBC News
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| July 8, 2006 | - It was reported that Senator
Orrin Hatch intervened to get a record producer out of a Dubai jail after he was sentenced to four years for possession of cocaine.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 29, 2006 | - A Liverpool, England, man was sentenced to 100 hours of community service for getting drunk and singing "YMCA" on a flight from Florida to Manchester while his wife wept and comforted their three children. "He makes no excuses," said the man's lawyer, "for his loutish, idiotic behavior."
| Source:
Mirror.co.uk
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| April 11, 2006 | - A member of MiniKiss, a KISS tribute band made up of dwarves, denied that he had tried to sneak past security at a Las Vegas concert of Tiny Kiss, a KISS tribute band made up of three little people and a 350-pound woman.
| Source:
The Los Angeles Times
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| March 7, 2006 | -
Yanni was arrested for allegedly hitting his girlfriend.
| Source:
The Smoking Gun
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| January 27, 2006 | -
Mozart turned 250.
| Source:
CTV.ca
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| January 26, 2006 | - In Manchester, England, the BBC was planning an Easter tribute in which Jesus Christ will sing "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division before joining Judas in a duet of "Blue Monday" by New Order. Later, as Roman soldiers flay him, Jesus will sing "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" by The Smiths.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| June 8, 2005 | - A new Bach aria was discovered in Germany.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| June 12, 2004 | - An astronomer in Virginia reconstructed the sound of the Big Bang and discovered that it sounded at first like a "majestic" major third chord and then changed to a "sadder" minor third.
| Source: New Scientist
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| June 11, 2004 | -
Ray Charles died.
| Source: New York Times
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| May 24, 2004 | -
Colombian rebels blew up a disco.
| Source: Associated Press
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| April 4, 2004 | - A Japanese robot conducted the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
| Source: New Scientist
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| March 14, 2004 | -
Luciano Pavarotti gave his last staged performance.
| Source: Associated Press
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| January 8, 2004 | -
Australian physicists concluded that the high notes sung by opera singers are often hard to understand.
| Source: BBC
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| September 13, 2003 | -
Johnny Cash died.
| Source: New York Times
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| October 1, 2002 | -
Texas executed a clown who murdered two young girls for playing loud music and talking back when he asked them to turn it down.
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| October 2, 2001 | -
Germany's minister for cultural affairs released an official definition of rock music: “an entity of all musical forms that are usually created with the help of electronic amplifiers and follows the broader taste in music, usually for dancing, that is spread through the media and live concerts.” Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was overheard humming a tune by his favorite band, The Scorpions.
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| September 25, 2001 | - After four concerts of his music were cancelled, Karlheinz Stockhausen, the German avant-garde composer, apologized for describing the attack on the World Trade Center as “the greatest work of art one can imagine . . . the greatest work of art there is in the entire cosmos.”
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| August 28, 2001 | -
Iranian
police launched a crackdown on “flagrant manifestations of corruption,” including selling pet dogs, playing loud music, and displaying women's underwear in shop windows.
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| January 16, 2001 | -
Researchers found that the human love of music was instinctual, a mere animal reflex.
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| October 31, 2000 | -
Islamic students demonstrated in front of the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, chanting “Kill All Jews.” Music by Richard Wagner was performed in concert in Israel for the first time; the “Siegfried Idyll” was protested briefly by a Holocaust survivor who stood up before the concert and made loud noises with a rattle.
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| September 12, 2000 | -
German
police confiscated 7,500 neo-Nazi
music CDs.
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