Events

1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.

1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.

1632 – Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.

1715 – Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.

1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of ''Serse'', an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

1755 – Samuel Johnson's ''A Dictionary of the English Language'' is published in London.

1783 – Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.

1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen ''I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud''.

1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.

1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies without regaining consciousness after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.

1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.

1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.

1900 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.

1912 – The British passenger liner, the , sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two and a half hours after hitting an iceberg. 1,517 people are killed.

1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.

1921 – Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England.

1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.

1924 – Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.

1927 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.

1935 – Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C.

1936 – First day of the Arab revolt in Palestine.

1940 – The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.

1941 – In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people.

1942 – The George Cross is awarded to "to the island fortress of Malta – its people and defenders" by King George VI.

1945 – The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.

1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.

1952 – The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress

1955 – McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois

1957 – White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.

1958 – Walter O'Malley's Los Angeles Dodgers host the first Major League Baseball game played on the West Coast of the United States.

1960 – At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

1969 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.

1970 – During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam.

1979 – A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) occurs on Montenegro coast.

1983 – Tokyo Disney Resort (and the Tokyo Disneyland park) opens in Tokyo Bay (Japan)

1986 – The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.

1989 – Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi Final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool F.C. fans.

1989 – Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China.

1992 – The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

1994 – Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995).

2002 – An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128.

Births

1452 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath (d. 1519)

1469 – Guru Nanak Dev, the first of the ten Sikh Gurus (d. 1539)

1489 – Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect (d. 1588)

1552 – Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)

1588 – Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (d. 1653)

1641 – Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (d. 1722)

1642 – Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1691)

1646 – King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)

1646 – Pierre Poiret, French mystic (d. 1719)

1684 – Empress Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)

1688 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (d. 1758)

1707 – Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (d. 1783)

1710 – William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790)

1721 – Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (d. 1765)

1741 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier and naturalist (d. 1827)

1772 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844)

1793 – Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (d. 1864)

1794 – Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867)

1800 – James Clark Ross, English explorer (d. 1862)

1809 – Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician (d. 1877)

1828 – Jean Danjou, French Foreign Legion officer (d. 1863)

1832 – Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908)

1841 – Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (d. 1919)

1843 – Henry James, American author (d. 1916)

1856 – Jean Moréas, Greek poet (d. 1910)

1858 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (d. 1917)

1861 – Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929)

1874 – George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist (d. 1954)

1874 – Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)

1875 – James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1953)

1878 – Robert Walser, Swiss writer (d. 1956)

1879 – Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer (d. 1980)

1883 – Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)

1885 – Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947)

1886 – Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (d. 1921)

1888 – Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (d. 1904)

1889 – Thomas Hart Benton, American muralist (d. 1975)

1889 – A. Philip Randolph, American activist (d. 1979)

1892 – Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (d. 1983)

1892 – Theo Osterkamp, World War I and World War II German fighter pilot (d. 1975)

1894 – Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1971)

1894 – Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)

1895 – Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (d. 1980)

1896 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)

1901 – Joe Davis, English snooker player (d. 1978)

1902 – Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)

1904 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian artist (d. 1948)

1907 – Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ethologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)

1908 – Eden Ahbez, American songwriter (d. 1995)

1908 – Lita Grey, American actress (d. 1995)

1910 – Miguel Najdorf, Argentine chess grandmaster (d. 1997)

1912 – Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (d. 1994)

1916 – Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (d. 1982)

1917 – Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982)

1917 – James Kee, American politician (d. 1989)

1919 – Alberto Breccia, Uruguay-born Argentine comics artist and writer (d. 1993)

1920 – Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist

1920 – Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany

1921 – Georgi Beregovoi, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1995)

1921 – Angelo DiGeorge, Italian-American pediatric endocrinologist (d. 2009)

1922 – Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor

1922 – Harold Washington, American politician (d. 1987)

1923 – Robert DePugh, American anti-Communist activist (d. 2009)

1924 – Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor

1927 – Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)

1930 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland

1933 – Roy Clark, American musician

1933 – David Hamilton, British photographer, film director and producer

1933 – Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995)

1933 – Jim Towers, English footballer (d. 2010)

1935 – Stavros Paravas, Greek actor

1936 – Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist

1937 – Bob Luman, American country singer (d. 1978)

1938 – Hso Khan Pha, Burmese politician

1939 – Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born actress

1939 – Marty Wilde, British singer

1940 – Jeffrey Archer, British author

1940 – Willie Davis, American baseball player

1940 – Woodie Fryman, American baseball player

1940 – Robert Lacroix, French Canadian professor of economics

1940 – Robert Walker Jr., American actor

1941 – Howard Berman, American politician

1942 – Francis X. DiLorenzo, American Catholic prelate

1942 – Walt Hazzard, American basketball player

1942 – Kenneth Lay, American businessman (d. 2006)

1944 – Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader (d. 1996)

1944 – Dave Edmunds, Welsh musician

1946 – Pete Rouse, American White House Chief of Staff to President Obama

1946 – Michael Tucci, American actor

1947 – Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, American writer and television producer

1947 – Mike Chapman, British songwriter

1947 – Lois Chiles, American actress

1947 – Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish politician

1947 – Woolly Wolstenholme, British musician

1948 – Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003)

1949 – Tonio K, American singer

1949 – Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer

1949 – Craig Zadan, American film producer

1950 – Josiane Balasko, French actress, director and screenwriter

1950 – Amy Wright, American actress

1951 – Heloise, American newspaper columnist

1952 – Bengt Gingsjö, Swedish swimmer

1952 – Kym Gyngell, Australian comedian

1952 – Sam McMurray, American actor

1952 – Glenn Shadix, American actor

1952 – Brian Muir, British sculptor and creator of Darth Vader

1953 – Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Greek politician

1954 – Seka, American pornographic actress

1955 – Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997)

1956 – Michael Cooper, American basketball player

1957 – Evelyn Ashford, American athlete

1958 – Keith Acton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1958 – Dolores Gordon-Smith, British writer

1958 – Noni Ιoannidou, Greek fashion model and actress

1958 – Memos Ioannou, Greek basketball player

1958 – Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer

1959 – Fruit Chan, Hong Kong film director

1959 – Kevin Lowe, Canadian ice hockey player and general manager

1959 – Emma Thompson, English actress

1959 – Thomas F. Wilson, American actor

1960 – Susanne Bier, Danish film director

1960 – Pedro Delgado, Spanish cyclist

1960 – Tony Jones, English snooker player

1960 – HRH Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne

1962 – Surjit Bindrakhia, Punjabi Bhangra singer

1962 – Nawal El Moutawakel, Morrocan hurdler

1962 – Tom Kane, American voice actor

1963 – Bobby Pepper, American journalist

1965 – Linda Perry, American musician

1966 – Samantha Fox, English singer

1967 – Frankie Poullain, British musician (The Darkness)

1967 – Dara Torres, American swimmer

1968 – Ed O'Brien, British musician (Radiohead)

1968 – Stacey Williams, American model

1969 – Jeromy Burnitz, American baseball player

1969 – Jimmy Waite, Canadian ice hockey goaltender

1970 – Flex Alexander, American actor

1971 – Kate Harbour, English voice actress

1971 – Katy Hill, British television presenter

1971 – Jason Sehorn, American football player

1972 – Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer (d. 2009)

1972 – Lou Romano, American voice actor

1974 – Mike Quinn, American football player

1974 – Keith Malley, American comedian and podcaster (Keith and The Girl)

1974 – Danny Pino, American actor

1974 – Douglas Spain, American actor

1974 – Tim Thomas, American ice hockey player

1975 – Paul Dana, American race car driver (d. 2006)

1975 – Phil Labonte, American vocalist (All That Remains)

1976 – Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice hockey player

1976 – Susan Ward, American actress

1977 – Brian Pothier, American ice hockey player

1978 – Austin Aries, American wrestler

1978 – Milton Bradley, American baseball player

1978 – Tim Corcoran, American baseball player

1980 – Natalie Casey, British actress

1980 – James Foster, English cricketer

1980 – Raúl López, Spanish basketball player

1980 – Willie Mason, Australian rugby league player

1980 – Victor Núñez, Costa Rican footballer

1980 – Fränk Schleck, Luxembourgish professional cyclist

1980 – Billy Yates, American football player

1981 – Andrés D'Alessandro, Argentine football player

1981 – Seth Wulsin, American artist

1982 – Michael Aubrey, American baseball player

1982 – Anthony Green, American musician

1982 – Albert Riera, Spanish footballer

1982 – Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer

1983 – Alice Braga, Brazilian actress

1983 – Matt Cardle, British singer/songwriter

1983 – Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer

1983 – Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player

1983 – Bronson La'Cassie, Australian professional golfer

1983 – Martin Pedersen, Danish professional cyclist

1984 – Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player

1984 – Ben Kasica, guitarist (Skillet)

1984 – Daniel Paille, Canadian hockey player

1985 – Chris Cates, American baseball player

1985 – John Danks, American baseball player

1985 – Aaron Laffey, American baseball player

1985 – Amy Reid, German pornographic actress

1986 – Tom Heaton, English footballer

1986 – Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Ghanaian footballer

1987 – Sapphire Elia, English actres

1988 – Thomas Albanese, Italian footballer

1988 – Eliza Doolittle, English singer

1990 – Emma Watson, English actress

1991 – Daiki Arioka, Japanese actor & singer

1992 – Amy Diamond, Swedish singer

1992 – Richard Sandrak, American bodybuilder

Deaths

1053 – Godwin, Earl of Wessex (b. 1001)

1220 – Adolf of Altena, Archbishop of Cologne (b. 1157)

1415 – Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian (b. 1355)

1446 – Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (b. 1377)

1610 – Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (b. 1546)

1621 – John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1576)

1632 – George Calvert, Proprietor of the Avalon (Maryland) Colony (b. 1580)

1641 – Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581)

1652 – Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church

1659 – Simon Dach, German poet (b. 1605)

1704 – Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (b. 1628)

1719 – Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)

1754 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676)

1761 – Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682)

1761 – William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696)

1764 – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721)

1764 – Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (b. 1679)

1765 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist and writer (b. 1711)

1788 – Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (b. 1711)

1793 – Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718)

1804 – Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)

1854 – Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (b. 1773)

1861 – Sylvester Jordan, German politician and lawyer (b. 1792)

1865 – Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)

1888 – Matthew Arnold, English poet (b. 1822)

1889 – Father Damien, Flemish missionary (b. 1840)

1898 – Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader

1912 – Victims of the RMS Titanic disaster

* Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (b. 1850)

* Henry Tingle Wilde, Chief Officer (b. 1872)

* William McMaster Murdoch, First Officer (b. 1873)

* James Paul Moody, Sixth Officer (b. 1887)

* Jack Phillips, British wireless telegraphist. (b. 1887)

* John Jacob Astor IV, billionaire (b. 1864)

* Thomas Andrews, Irish-born businessman and shipbuilder (b. 1873)

* William T. Stead American author and journalist (b. 1849)

1927 – Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868)

1938 – César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (b. 1892)

1942 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (b. 1880)

1943 – Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (b. 1882)

1944 – Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Soviet general (b. 1901)

1945 – Hermann Florstedt, Nazi leader (b. 1895)

1948 – Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (b. 1892)

1949 – Wallace Beery, American actor (b. 1885)

1957 – Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)

1962 – Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1880)

1962 – Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (b. 1911)

1963 – Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (b. 1903)

1967 – Totò, Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer, and songwriter (b. 1898)

1969 – Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen of Spain (b. 1887)

1970 – Ripper Collins, American baseball player (b. 1904)

1971 – Dan Reeves, American football team owner (b. 1912)

1971 – Gurgen Boryan, Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915)

1974 – Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)

1975 – Richard Conte, American actor (b. 1910)

1980 – Raymond Bailey, American actor (b. 1904)

1980 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)

1982 – Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915)

1983 – Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892)

1983 – John Engstead, American photographer (b. 1909)

1984 – Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (b. 1921)

1984 – Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)

1986 – Jean Genet, French author (b. 1910)

1988 – Kenneth Williams, English actor and comedian (b. 1926)

1988 – Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (b. 1954)

1989 – Nesuhi Ertegün, American record executive (b. 1917)

1989 – Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (b. 1915)

1990 – Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (b. 1905)

1992 – Otis Barton, American deep-sea diver (b. 1899)

1993 – Leslie Charteris, Singapore-born author (b. 1907)

1993 – John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (b. 1908)

1994 – John Curry, English figure skater (b. 1949)

1995 – Harry Shoulberg, American painter, serigrapher (b. 1903)

1998 – Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925)

1999 – Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and racing car designer (b. 1944)

2000 – Edward Gorey, American illustrator (b. 1925)

2001 – Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (b. 1951)

2002 – Damon Knight, American author (b. 1922)

2002 – Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and United States Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917)

2003 – Reg Bundy, British performer (b. 1941)

2003 – Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (b. 1941)

2004 – Ray Condo, Canadian musician (b. 1950)

2004 – Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese manga artist (b. 1934)

2005 – John Fred, American singer (b. 1941)

2007 – Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b. 1920)

2008 – Sean Costello, American blues musician (b. 1979)

2008 – Benoît Lamy, Belgian movie director (b. 1945)

2008 – Krister Stendahl, Swedish theologian and bishop (b. 1921)

2009 – Ed Blake, American baseball player (b. 1925)

2009 – Sir Clement Freud, British writer, broadcaster, and MP (b. 1924)

2009 – László Tisza, Hungarian-born American physicist (b. 1907)

2010 – Jack Herer, American author and cannabis activist (b. 1939)

2011 – Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian peace activist (b. 1975)

Holidays and observances

Arirang Festival, held to commemorate Kim Il-sung's birth. (North Korea)

Christian Feast Day:

* Abbo II of Metz

* Father Damien Day (Hawaii)

* Hunna

* Paternus of Avranches

* April 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Earliest day on which Sechseläuten can fall, while April 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday in April. (Zurich)

Fordicidia, in honor of Tellus. (Roman Empire)

Jackie Robinson Day (Major League Baseball)

Latest day on which New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asian cultures can fall. (see April 14)

Tax Day, the official deadline for filing an individual tax return (or requesting an extension). (United States, Philippines)

The Hillsborough Disaster Memorial is obsereved at Liverpool Football Club's home in Anfield

External links

BBC: On This Day

On This Day in Canada

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Paul L Money FRAS, FBIS, is an astronomer based in Lincolnshire, England. He is well known for his talks and is the reviews editor of the BBC Sky at Night magazine. He broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio Lincolnshire. He was awarded the 'Eric Zucker' award for 2002/2003 for contributions to Astronomy by the Federation of Astronomical Societies.

Publications

He is the reviews editor for the BBC Sky at Night magazine

He publishes a 40 page sky guide every year called "NightScenes" for amateur astronomers

External links

Paul Money's website

Information about his coverage of the eclipse

BBC Sky at Night magazine

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name	Mac Miller
background	solo_singer
birth name	Malcolm McCormick
birth date	January 19, 1992
birth place	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
genre	Hip hop, hipster hop, comedy hip hop, pop rap
occupation	Rapper
years active	2007 – present
label	Rostrum Records
associated acts	Wiz Khalifa, Beedie, The Ill Spoken, ID Labs, Just Blaze, Phonte
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Malcolm McCormick (born January 19, 1992), known by his stage name Mac Miller (previously Easy Mac), is an American rapper from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is signed to Rostrum Records.

Early life

Mac Miller was born Malcolm McCormick on January 19, 1992 and raised in the Point Breeze part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of an architect and a photographer. His father is Christian and his mother is Jewish; Miller was raised Jewish and had a Bar Mitzvah. Before attending Taylor Allderdice High School, Miller attended Winchester Thurston School. In high school, Miller decided to focus on his hip-hop career, later noting, "Once I hit 15, I got real serious about it and it changed my life completely... I used to be into sports, play all the sports, go to all the high school parties. But once I found out hip-hop is almost like a job, that's all I did." Miller, also a self-taught musician, plays piano, guitar and the drums.

Career

Before his solo career, he was part of a rap group, The Ill Spoken with fellow Pittsburgh rapper, Beedie. Upon turning 18, he signed with Rostrum Records and released his mixtape debut, titled ''K.I.D.S.'' with the label in August 2010.

Mac Miller includes Big L, Lauryn Hill, The Beastie Boys, Outkast, and A Tribe Called Quest among his influences. He also has a close relationship with fellow Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa, saying "Wiz has been a big brother to me with this music thing so far. Our relationship is beyond music. He really is just my homie, whether I will be making music or not."

On November 22, 2010 his first single "Knock Knock" premiered its video on YouTube.

On March 29, 2011, he released an EP called ''On And On And Beyond''. The six-track work was produced by Rostrum Records.

On July 5, 2011, he announced the title of his first album ''Blue Slide Park'' on his YouTube channel, set for a Fall release.

Miller's most recent release was a mixtape titled ''Best Day Ever''. The mixtape features his singles "Get Up", "Wear My Hat", and the more favorites "Donald Trump", "BDE Bonus" and "All Around The World".

The video for the first single released from this mixtape, "Donald Trump", has reached 19 million views on YouTube, and Donald Trump himself, who is referenced on the song, acknowledged the video on the social networking site Twitter when it reached 16 million views stating "Who wouldn't be flattered?". The song also charted on the Billboard Hot 100 debuting at #80 and peaking at #79. This is an impressive feat considering he is not signed to a major label and the song didn't receive major radio airplay. He now has his debut album scheduled to come out soon and a tour for it called Blue Slide Park

In 2011 his first TV appearance took place in the VH1 show Single Ladies; he played a fictionalized version of himself that succeeded in selling one of his mixtapes to one of the main characters.

Discography

Albums

''Blue Slide Park'' (2011)

EPs

''On and On and Beyond'' (2011)

Mixtapes

''But My Mackin' Ain't Easy'' (2007)

''How High: The Mixtape'' (2008) (with The Ill Spoken)

''The Jukebox: Prelude to Class Clown'' (2009)

''The High Life'' (2009)

''K.I.D.S (Kickin' Incredibly Dope Shit)'' (2010)

''Best Day Ever'' (2011)

References

External links

Rostrum Records: Mac Miller

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name	Wiz Khalifa
alt	Wiz Khalifa holding a microphone
background	solo_singer
birth name	Cameron Jibril Thomaz
alias
born	September 08, 1987Minot, North Dakota, United States
origin	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
genre	Hip hop
occupation	Rapper, Singer
years active	2005–present
label	Rostrum, Warner Bros., Atlantic
associated acts	Tinie Tempah, Snoop Dogg,Rick Ross, Curren$y, Big Sean, Fashawn, Mac Miller
website	wizkhalifa.com
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Cameron Jibril Thomaz (born September 8, 1987), better known by the stage name Wiz Khalifa, is an American rapper. He released his debut album, ''Show and Prove'', in 2006, and signed to Warner Bros. Records in 2007. His eurodance-influenced single, "Say Yeah", received urban radio airplay, charting on the Rhythmic Top 40 and Hot Rap Tracks charts in 2008. Khalifa parted with Warner Bros. and released his second album, ''Deal or No Deal'', in November 2009. He released the mixtape ''Kush and Orange Juice'' as a free download in April 2010; he then signed with Atlantic Records. He is also well-known for his debut single for Atlantic, "Black and Yellow", which peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. His debut album for the label, ''Rolling Papers'', was released on March 29, 2011.

Early life

Khalifa was born on September 8, 1987 in Minot, North Dakota, to a mother and a father serving in the military. His parents divorced when Khalifa was about three years old. His parents' military service caused him to move on a regular basis. Khalifa lived in Germany, England, and Japan before settling in Pittsburgh where he attended Taylor Allderdice High School.

His stage name is derived from khalifa, an Arabic word meaning "successor", and wisdom, which was shortened to Wiz when Khalifa was fifteen. Khalifa stated to spinner.com that the name also came from being called "young Wiz 'cause I was good at everything I did, and my granddad is Muslim, so he gave me that name; he felt like that's what I was doing with my music." He got his stage name tattooed on his 17th birthday. He includes Camp Lo, The Notorious B.I.G. and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony among his influences.

Career

2005-08: Early mixtapes and ''Show and Prove''

Khalifa released his first mixtape, ''Prince of the City: Welcome to Pistolvania'', in 2005. The mixtape led to his first full length album entitled ''Show and Prove'' in 2006. Khalifa was declared an "artist to watch" that year in ''Rolling Stone'' magazine.

In 2007, Khalifa signed to Warner Bros. Records and released two mixtapes through Rostrum Records: ''Grow Season'', hosted by DJ Green Lantern and released on July 4, 2007, and ''Prince of the City 2'', released on November 20, 2007. His debut Warner Bros. single "Say Yeah" reached number 25 on the ''Billboard'' Rhythmic Top 40 music chart and number 20 on ''Billboard's'' Hot Rap Tracks. The song samples "Better Off Alone" by Alice Deejay. Khalifa's vocals from "Say Yeah" appear near the end of Pittsburgh mash up producer Girl Talk's 2008 album, ''Feed the Animals'', over music from Underworld's "Born Slippy", Usher's "Love in This Club", and the Cure's "In Between Days". Khalifa appeared with The Game, David Banner and Play-n-Skillz at U92's Summer Jam at the USANA Amphitheatre in West Valley City, Utah on August 2, 2008. Khalifa released the mixtapes ''Star Power'' in September 2008, and ''Flight School'' in April 2009 on Rostrum Records.

Khalifa parted ways with Warner Bros. Records in July 2009 after numerous delays in releasing his planned debut album for the label, ''First Flight''. Khalifa stated to the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' that, "I learned a lot during my time there and matured as an artist during the process. I'm happy to be moving on with all of my material and having the chance to be in control of my next moves". Khalifa appeared with Girl Talk, Modey Lemon, Donora, Grand Buffet, and Don Caballero at the Amphitheatre at Station Square in Pittsburgh on July 31, 2009, where he announced that his relationship with Warner Bros. was over.

2009-10: ''Deal or No Deal''

Continuing his association with Rostrum Records, Khalifa released the single "Teach U to Fly", and the mixtape ''How Fly'', a collaboration with New Orleans rapper Curren$y, on August 9, 2009. Khalifa introduced a more melodic style on the mixtape, alternating between singing and rapping. He opened for Wu-Tang Clan member U-God at the 2009 CMJ Music Marathon in New York City. Khalifa released the mixtape ''Burn After Rolling'' on November 2, 2009, where he raps over familiar beats from other artists, including the songs "If I Were A Boy" and "Diva" by Beyoncé, "Walking on a Dream" by Empire of the Sun, "Luchini AKA This Is It" by Camp Lo, and "Best I Ever Had" by Drake. Khalifa released his second album, ''Deal or No Deal'', on November 24, 2009.

Khalifa performed at Emo's in Austin, Texas in March 2010 as part of the 2010 South by Southwest Music Festival. He appeared on the cover of ''XXL'' magazine that same month, for the magazine's annual list of Top 10 Freshman, which included Donnis, J. Cole, Pill, Freddie Gibbs, and Fashawn. Wiz Khalifa was named 2010 "Rookie Of The Year" by "The Source", with alongside Rick Ross, "The Man Of The Year". He toured with rapper Yelawolf on a 20-date tour, the Deal Or No Deal Tour. Khalifa released the free mixtape ''Kush and Orange Juice'' for download on April 14, 2010. Due to Khalifa's devoted grassroots fan base, the mixtape became the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter with the hash tag #kushandorangejuice, and "Kush and Orange Juice download” ranked No. 1 on Google’s hot search trends.

2010: Signing with Atlantic Records

Citing music industry insiders, ''New York'' magazine wrote that Khalifa signed with Atlantic Records in April 2010, although the rapper did not confirm it. He stated to AllHipHop in June 2010 that he was working on a new album, but was weighing his options and had not yet decided on a label to distribute it. Khalifa confirmed to MTV on July 30 that he was signing an Atlantic Records deal.

Khalifa was featured in a remix and video for the 2010 Rick Ross single "Super High", alongside Curren$y. He guested on the mixtape ''Grey Goose, Head Phones, and Thirsty Women '' by St. Louis rapper M.C, and was featured on the track "The Breeze (Cool)" on rapper Wale's August 2010 mixtape ''More About Nothing''. Khalifa was named MTV's Hottest Breakthrough MC of 2010, winning with nearly 70,000 votes, and beating out finalists Nicki Minaj, J. Cole, Travis Porter, and Diggy Simmons.

Khalifa appeared at the Soundset 2010 festival in May 2010 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, alongside Method Man & Redman, Del the Funky Homosapien and Hieroglyphics, Atmosphere, Murs, Cage, and others. He also performed at the 2010 Rock the Bells festival, along with hip hop veterans Wu-Tang Clan, Snoop Dogg, Lauryn Hill, A Tribe Called Quest, Rakim, KRS-One, Jedi Mind Tricks and Slick Rick. Khalifa declined an invitation to tour with rapper Drake and launched his own "Waken Baken" tour, a 50-city national tour with rapper Yelawolf. The tour, scheduled to last from September to November 2010, has, as of October, sold out every venue. On November 2010, during his "Waken Baken" tour at East Carolina University, Wiz Khalifa was arrested for possession and trafficking of marijuana. He was then released the next morning after a $300K bail, and resumed his tour. Khalifa performed in a cypher during the 2010 BET Hip-Hop Awards. He recited his verse from the song, "The Check Point", from his mixtape with Curren$y, ''How Fly''.

2010-11: Mainstream success and ''Rolling Papers''

Khalifa released "Black and Yellow", his first single for Rostrum/Atlantic, produced by Stargate, which has received radio airplay. The single was peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100; the title of the song refers to the colours of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Khalifa will release his debut album with Atlantic Records in 2011. He appeared with Curren$y on the track "Scaling the Building" on producer Ski Beatz' 2010 album, ''24 Hour Karate School''. Khalifa's fanbase is known as the Taylor Gang, named after his love of Chuck Taylor All-Stars shoes.

On March 29, 2011, Khalifa released his first studio album, ''Rolling Papers''. The album debuted at number two on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart, with first-week sales of 197,000 copies in the United States.

On June 26, 2011, Khalifa was nominated and won Best New Artist at the BET Awards of 2011.

Khalifa collaborated with the prolific British rapper Tinie Tempah whom Tinie announced in an interview with Rolling Stone that his next single is to be called "Till I'm Gone" and would feature Wiz Khalifa and is to be produced by Stargate. The single and the video song were released at the end of June 2011.

Personal life

Thomaz is dating Amber Rose, the former girlfriend of Thomaz's fellow hip-hop star Kanye West. He is also personal friends with rapper Yelawolf, and fellow Pittsburgh rapper, Mac Miller.

Discography

;Studio albums

''Show and Prove'' (2006)

''Deal or No Deal'' (2009)

''Rolling Papers'' (2011)

References

External links

Wiz Khalifa at MTV

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