On this day in 1809 Napoleon Bonaparte was divorced from the Empress Josephine by an act of the French Senate.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7-nbHD3lBg

Born on this day in 1770 composer Ludwig van Beethoven
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHqmIbo8sdI

Born on this day in 1775 composer Adrien Boieldieu (the father, not the son)
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFaypFJhvo0

Born on this day in 1877 conductor Artur Bodanzky
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU8qQio2CmM

Born on this day in 1882 composer Zoltán Kodály
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2BLOHSCOjU

Born on this day in 1899 composer, playwright and actor Noel Coward
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOEDThsbN0A

Born on this day in 1926 tenor James McCracken
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3A2Zi5EvhE

Born on this day in 1929 tenor Donald Grobe
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xZzMiqx6XU

Happy 83rd birthday composer Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGzdHQkwo40

Born on this day in 1939 tenor Philip Langridge
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H94cHKcq1RQ