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1998 "Sound of Music," opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City

1997 Floyd Cramer, pianist, session player, architect of the 'Nashville Sound', played piano on Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel, dies of lung cancer at age 64

1994 Irwin Kostal, U.S. arranger/conductor (Sound of Music), dies at 83

1994 "Sound of Motown," premieres in Rotterdam

1994 Roel Bazen, Dutch sound technician (Van Kooten and The Bie), dies at 48

1990 Clyde McCoy, jazz trumpeter (wah wah sound), dies at 86

1990 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill

1987 Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials

1986 Russian TU-144 flies for 1st time faster than sound

1982 Chesney Allen, actress (Okay for Sound, Frozen Limits), dies at 88

1982 Hans ter Laag, Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador

1980 Jacqueline Cochrane, U.S. pilot/1st female faster than sound, dies at 70

1978 Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine)

1976 Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album

1969 Concorde 001 test flight breaks sound barrier

1967 Mick Hankers, Dutch dancer, Josephine, Sound of Motown

1966 38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music," Julie Christie and L Marvin win

1965 "Sound Of Music" opens

1964 9.2 earthquake shakes Prince William Sound, Alaska

1963 "Sound of Music" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 1443 performances

1962 Andy Green, UK, 1st to break sound barrier on land

1960 Sammy White, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65

1959 "Sound of Music" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 1443 performances

1958 Vincent Henar, Surinam, bassist, Fra Fra Sound

1957 Gloria Estefan, born in Havana, singer, Miami Sound Machine-Conga

1953 Jon Faddis, born in Oakland, California, musician, jazz trumpeter, conductor, composer, music educator, sound compared to his mentor, Dizzy Gillespie, member Lionel Hampton's big band, led Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, released Grammy-Award nominated work, Remembrances, 1999

1953 Jacqueline Cochran is 1st woman to break the sound barrier

1952 Boris Blank, born in Switzerland, composer, musician, member of Yello, responsible for unique sound, influenced by Yello members Carlos Peron, Deiter Meier

1951 Liz Phillips, born in New Jersey, composer, sound artist, interactive artist, creates sound installations relating to live forms, has held exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, collaborated with Merce Cunningham Dance Company

1950 Emilio Estefan, born in Cuba, rocker, Miami Sound Machine-1 2 3

1948 British De Havilland 08-fighter flies faster than sound

1948 Bobby Orr, born in Parry Sound, Ontario, HOF NHL defenseman for the Boston Bruins

1947 Bill Fontana, born in Cleveland, Ohio, composer, sound art pioneer, created sounds sculptures in 1976, using urban surroundings as a source of musical information, to evoke visual imagery

1943 Rolf Gehlhaar, born in Breslau, Poland, composer, known for computer-controlled composition, sound installations using Sound Space system

1943 Walter Murch, American film editor and sound deisgner

1942 Charlie Gillett, Lancashire, rock broadcaster, Sound of the City

1940 Dary John Mizelle, born in Stillwater, Oklahoma, composer, co-founder SOURCE magazine, works include, SPANDA Symphonies of Sound, 2006

1939 [Harvey] Phil Spector, record producer, Wall of Sound

1939 Max Neuhaus, born in Beaumont, Texas, composer, percussionist, avant-garde, experimental genres, interpreter of contemporary music, sound art pioneer, designed sound generation and projection systems

1937 1st feature-length color and sound cartoon premieres (Snow White)

1935 Julie Andrews, England, actress and singer, Sound of Music, Mary Poppins

1934 John Pardoe, CEO, Sight and Sound Education, Liberal MP

1933 Floyd Cramer, born in Shreveport, Louisiana, pianist, session player, architect of the 'Nashville Sound', played piano on Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel

1933 Ray Dolby, sound expert/inventor, Dolby noise limiting system

1932 Pauline Oliveros, Houston Texas, composer, Sound Patterns

1929 Christopher Plummer, Toronto, actor, Sound of Music, Doll's House

1929 Amar Bose, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, electrical engineer, Ph.D. from MIT, founder, chairman, Bose Corporation, patented dominantly reflecting sound field mimicking listening space of the audience in a concert hall

1927 "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (New York City)

1923 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (New York City)

1923 Chuck Yeager, U.S. test pilot, 1st man to break sound barrier

1918 Eddy Arnold, born in Tennessee, best-selling, longest-running, country music singer, helped create Nashville sound

1908 Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Washington

1905 Maria Augusta von Trapp, Austria, singer, inspired "Sound of Music"

1897 William Faulkner, Mississippi, author, Sound and Fury-Nobel 1949

1894 Sammy White, Rhode Island, actor, 711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off

1877 1st sound recording made (Thomas Edison)

1877 Thomas Edison invents Edisonphone, a sound recording device

1863 Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta

1862 Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound

1839 August A Kundt, German physicist, sound vibration, test of Kundt

1836 HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia

1834 HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands

1792 Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain

1788 1st British ship built on Pacific coast begun at Nootka Sound

1778 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Captain Cook

1716 Joseph Sauveur, French sound engineer, dies at 63


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