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What happened in history on this day: December 18?
On December 18 in ...
- 1892 - Anton Bruckner's 8th Symphony, premieres.
- 1892 - The Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg holds the first performance of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker.
- 1961 - Britain's EMI Records originally rejects the Beatles.
- 1962 - Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th Symphony, premieres in Moscow.
- 1971 - CBS radio cancels Saturday morning band concerts.
Births on December 18
- 1919 - Birth of Anita O'Day in Chicago, Illinois, USA; big band jazz singer (Gene Krupa, Stan Kanton).
- 1938 - Birth of [Bryan] Chas Chandler; rocker (The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun").
- 1941 - Birth of Sam Andrew; rocker (Big Brother and the Holding Company - "Cheap Thrills").
- 1943 - Birth of Keith Richards in England; rock guitarist (Rolling Stones - "Brown Sugar").
- 1948 - Birth of Bryan "Chas" Changler in Newcastle, England; rock bassist (Animals).
- 1950 - Birth of Martha Johnson in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; rocker (M+M).
- 1953 - Birth of Elliot Easton [Elliot Shapiro] in Brooklyn, New York, USA; rock guitarist (The Cars).
- 1957 - Birth of John Webster; rocker (Red Ryder - "Light in the Tunnel").
- 1961 - Birth of Ken Foreman; rocker (Thrashing Doves - "Reprobate's Hymn").
- 1966 - Birth of Steve Dullaghan; rocker (Primitives - "Lovely, Lump of Coal").
- 1966 - Birth of Tracy Byrd; country singer ("Keeper of the Stars").
- 1980 - Birth of Christina Aguilera on Staten Island, New York; singer ("Genie in a Bottle", "What A Girl Wants").
Deaths on December 18
- 1963 - Winifried P I Zillig, German composer/conductor (Opfer), dies at age 58.
- 1987 - Warne Marsh, jazz saxophonist, dies of a heart attack after collapsing onstage while giving a perfomance at Donte's in North Hollywood, California.
- 1990 - Death of Connie Russell at age 66 of heart problems; singer (Garroway at Large TV show (1949), variety TV shows of Morey Amsterdam, Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Eddie Cantor).
- 2022 - Death of Terry Hall at age 63; British singer (Specials, 2 Tone).
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