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1863 Gussie Davis, the first popular black Tin Pan Alley composer, is born in Dayton, Ohio.

1721 Johann Sebastian Bach marries Anna Magdalena Wilcken.

1585 Choral composer Thomas Tallis dies.

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Adam Sandler Introduces "The Chanukah Song" On Saturday Night Live

1994

Adam Sandler performs "The Chanukah Song" on the Weekend Update segment of Saturday Night Live, enlightening us to the fact that Harrison Ford, Paul Newman and David Lee Roth (among many others) are, in fact, Jewish. Released as a single the following year, the song reaches #10 US and becomes a seasonal favorite.

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