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June 30, 1934 Adolf Hitler begins Operation Hummingbird, the Röhm Putsch, or the Night of the Long Knives which culminates in the murder of Ernst Röhm on July 2. Al Stewart later writes a song about it called "The Last Day Of June 1934."
May 26, 1933 Country singer Jimmie Rodgers dies at age 35 after a long battle with tuberculosis (which he sings about in "T.B. Blues.")
May 12, 1929 Burt Bacharach is born in Kansas City, Missouri.More
December 27, 1927 Show Boat opens at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Broadway, changing the paradigm for modern musicals.More
April 7, 1915 Billie Holiday is born Eleanora Fagan in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. More
November 24, 1868 Scott Joplin, Ragtime composer and pianist, is born in Northeast Texas.More
December 24, 1818 A church choir in Austria introduces a new Christmas song for their Midnight Mass: "Stille Nacht!" better known as "Silent Night."
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April 23, 1616 William Shakespeare dies at 52. His play Romeo and Juliet becomes an archetype for songs about love that ends in tragedy.
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