Today in History and Celebrity Birthdays

Today in Music History for Sept. 22: In 1929, Canadian composer and conductor Serge Garant was born in Quebec City. He died in 1986. In 1958, "To Know Him is to Love Him" by "The Teddy Bears" entered the Billboard Hot 100.

Today in Music History for Sept. 24: In 1941, Linda McCartney was born in Scarsdale, N.Y. She married Paul McCartney in 1969, soon after he broke up with Jane Asher.

Today in Music History for Sept. 23: In 1926, jazz saxophonist John Coltrane was born in Hamlet, N.C.

Today in Music History for Sept. 27: In 1920, Canadian impresario Louis-Honore Bourdon presented Enrico Caruso at the Mount Royal Arena in Montreal.

Today in Music History for Sept. 25: In 1932, Glenn Gould, the Canadian concert and recording pianist, was born in Toronto.

Today in Music History for Sept. 26: In 1887, Emile Berliner filed a patent application for the gramophone. This recording device used zinc discs instead of the metal cylinders of Thomas Edison's phonograph, which was patented 10 years earlier.

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Today in History for Sept. 22: In 1692, Giles Cory, one of nine witches executed at Salem, Mass., was the last to be "pressed" to death. The others were hanged.

Today in History for Sept. 25: On this date: In 1493, Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, with a flotilla of 17 ships on his second voyage to the Western Hemisphere.

Today in History for Sept. 24: On this date: In 787, the Second Nicene Council opened under Pope Hadrian I.