Births
1932: Keely Smith
1933: Lloyd Price
1936: Mickey Gilley
1942: Mark Lindsay (Paul Revere and the Raiders)
1945: Robin Trower (Procol Harum)
1945: Robert Calvert (Hawkwind)
1945: Ron Wilson (The Surfaris)
1945: Robin Trower
1948: Jeffrey Osborne (LTD)
1948: Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann's Earth Band)
1949: Jimmie Fadden (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1951: Frank Rodriguez (? and the Mysterians)
1958: Martin Fry (ABC)
1968: Robert Sledge (Ben Folds Five)
1969: Adam Siegel (Suicidal Tendencies)
1980: Chingy
1987: Lil Bow Wow
Events
1957: Fats Domino's "I'm Walkin'" hits #1 R&B
1959: Frankie Avalon's "Venus" hits #1
1966: The Beach Boys started recording 'God Only Knows'. It became a UK No.2 single in 1966 and the B-side of 'Wouldn't It Be Nice' in the US.
1967: The Beatles record "Getting Better"
1968: At this year's Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, 5th Dimension's "Up Up And Away" wins Record of the Year (as well as Best Vocal Group Performance), while the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album takes home Album of the Year, Best Contemporary Album, Best Engineered Record and Best Album Cover.
1970: The blues band formerly known as Earth take the stage at London's Roundhouse with a heavier sound and a new name -- Black Sabbath.
1976: For the second time, The Who's Keith Moon collapses while performing at a show, this time at the Boston Garden. Though drug and alcohol abuse are again the culprit, singer Roger Daltrey tells the crowd Moon is suffering from the flu. The gig ends, but the group plays another one for ticketholders on April 1.
1977: CBS-TV's family musical variety show The Jacksons ends its run.
1978: The Eagles record, "I Can't Tell You Why"
1981: Robert Plant played a secret gig at Keele University, England with his new band The Honey Drippers.
1985: Dead Or Alive were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'You Spin Me Round (Like A Record). It was the first No.1 for the production team of Stock, Aitken and Waterman who went on to produce over 100 UK Top 40 hits.
1985: Mick Jagger released his solo single 'Just Another Night' a No. 12 hit in the US and No. 32 on the UK charts.
1985: REO Speedwagon started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Can't Fight This Feeling', it made No.16 in the UK.
1987: The Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York City inducts Lennon and McCartney, Goffin and King, Mann and Weil, and Sam Cooke in their initial awards ceremony.
1991: Mariah Carey started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Someday', her third US No.1 & No.38 hit in the UK.
1991: 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go' gave The Clash their only UK No.1 single after the track was used for a Levi's TV advertisement. The track was first released in 1982 from their album Combat Rock album.
1995: Radiohead kicked off a 13 date UK tour to promote their new album 'The Bends'.
1996: Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher walked off stage during a gig at the Vernon Valley Gorge ski resort in New Jersey because his hands were too cold to play.
1997: Notorious BIG was gunned down and killed as he left a party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Born Christopher Wallace the rapper was pronounced dead on arrival at Cedars Sinai Hospital. He was 24 years old.
1997: The Spice Girls went back to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Spice Girls.'
2004: Tom Jones' manager -- and son -- Mark orders the 63-year-old sex symbol to stop wearing tight leather pants onstage.
2007: Brad Delp lead singer of US rock band Boston committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in at his home in the New Hampshire town of Atkinson. Boston had the 1977 UK No.22 single 'More Than A Feeling' and the 1986 US No.1 single 'Amanda.'
2008: Duffy started a five-week run at No.1 on the UK album charts with ‘Rockferry’ the Welsh singers debut album.
2010: Lil Wayne was sentenced to a year in prison at New York City's Rikers Island jail complex after pleading guilty to gun possession. The charges were linked to his arrest in 2007 when a gun was found on his tour bus. His sentencing came after several delays; the first date was postponed to allow the rapper to have dental work and the second had to be rearranged after a fire broke out in the New York court complex.
