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9 JANUARY

In Music History

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1898 Music hall star Gracie Fields is born Grace Stansfield at Rochdale, Lancashire, England.

1839 Composer John Knowles Paine is born in Maine.

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Steve Jobs Announces The iPhone

2007

John Mayer joins Steve Jobs onstage at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco to introduce Apple's latest invention: the iPhone.

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9 JANUARY

Featured Events

2006 The Phantom of the Opera becomes the longest-running Broadway show when it marks its 7,486th performance at the Majestic theater, breaking the record held by Cats, another Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.

2003 MC Hammer and Vince Neil star in the first season of The Surreal Life on the WB network.More

1967 Dave Matthews is born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He eventually settles in Charlottesville, Virginia, and forms The Dave Matthews Band.

1944 James Patrick "Jimmy" Page is born in Heston, Middlesex, England. He is a session musician in England before forming The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin.

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