This Day In Music History For Monday, May 04, 2026 Spring edition Cool Info! Today is the National Day of Prayer. Birthdays Broadway Shows & Plays Um Kalthum (1904) Composer Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek (1860) Composer Matyas Seiber (1905) The Play "Angels in America - Millennium Approaches" opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre. (1993) Charts Today the song "The Loco-Motion" by Grand Funk topped the charts and stayed there for 2 weeks. (1974) Today the song "Because You Loved Me" by Celine Dion topped the charts and stayed there for 7 weeks. (1996) Today the song "Always Be My Baby" by Mariah Carey topped the charts and stayed there for 2 weeks. (1996) Thank you for being visitor #2508195. Talk about Music and Music History in our message forums! Like Sudoku games? Check out our new Sudoku web game site. Visit Bernadette Peters - Broadway's Best for up to date information on the Broadway star! [ This Day in Music History | Pick Your Own Day | Sources ] [ Music Education | How Does This Work? | Add a Resource | Easily Printed Version ] This Day in Music History, compiled and maintained by Kevin Lux for DataDragon Information Services server spam filter