Today in Music History - July 10 1778 - Composer Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm was born. 1835 - Composer Henryk Wieniawski was born. 1900 - ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Recording Company, and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine. 1936 - Billie Holiday recorded Billie’s Blues. 1965 - Wilson Picketts In The Midnight Hour was released. 1967 - Bobbie Gentry recorded Ode to Billie Joe. 1968 - Eric Clapton announced that Cream would break up following a farewell tour. 1971 - Three Dog Nights Liar was released. 1975 - The Gladys Knight & the Pips summer series premiered on NBC-TV. 1975 - Cher filed for divorce from Greg Allman, just ten days after the couple had married. 1979 - Chuck Berry was sentenced to four months in prison for income tax evasion. 1985 - The Prince song Poplife was released. 1986 - Jerry Garcia lapsed into a diabetic coma. He was released from the hospital a couple of weeks later. 1993 - Bob Segar and Juanita Dorricott were married. 1997 - Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders) and Lucho Brieva were married. 1998 - Sheena Easton filed for divorce from her husband of 11 months, Timothy Delarm. 2000 - Diana Ross announced that the Diana Ross and the Supremes Return to Love Tour had been cancelled by its producers. 2000 - The David Orgell jewelry store in Beverly Hills, CA, filed a $1.45 million lawsuit against Michael Jackson. The suit was over a diamond-encrusted wristwatch that was returned to the store damaged. 2000 - Stephen Hutton filed suit against Kid Rock for breach of contract and unjust enrichment. Hutton had been fired several weeks before after a dispute over compensation. 2002 - Dolly Parton launched a 13-city tour. It was her first tour in decades. 2002 - Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli announced that they had secretly separated 10 months before. There was no indication that the two planned to get formally divorced. 2010 - Queen Elizabeth II addressed the United Nations for the first time since 1957. It was her first visit to New York in more than 30 years. Source: On-This-Day
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:14:13 +0000
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