Births
1940: Delbert McClinton (Blues artist)
1954: Chris Difford (Guitar & Vocals for Squeeze)
1956: James Honeyman-Scott (Guitar for Pretenders)
1966: Kool Rock- Ski (Damon Wimbley) (Rapper in The Fat Boys)
1969: Sean John Combs (Puff Daddy & P. Diddy, Diddy) (Rapper)
Events
1961: A young Bob Dylan appears at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time. Unfortunately, only about 50 people attend, most of them friends of the singer.
1976: A bomb threat delays the start of Bruce Springsteen's concert at the Palladium in New York; Springsteen jokes that the threat was made by former manager Mike Appel, who's currently suing him.
1977: The Last Waltz, director Martin Scorsese's acclaimed documentary of the Band's star-studded last concert, premieres in New York City, featuring Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Neil Diamond, the Staple Singers, Dr. John, and more.
1978: Former Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young bassist Greg Reeves sues the group for a million dollars in alleged unpaid royalties from sales of the hit 1970 album Deja Vu.
1978: Boston played their first show in the city of Boston.
1978: Van Morrison is the musical guest on tonight's episode of NBC-TV's Saturday Night Live, performing "Wavelength" and "Kingdom Hall."
1980: An ailing Bob Marley is baptized a "Christian Rastafarian" at Kingston, Jamaica's Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
1986: Country Singer Tammy Wynette enters the Betty Ford Clinic with an addiction to painkillers.
1991: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces its 7th annual inductees, including Jimi Hendrix, Booker T. and the MGs, Sam and Dave, the Yardbirds, the Isley Brothers, Johnny Cash, and Bobby "Blue" Bland.
1992: Elton John and Bernie Taupin sign a $39 million songwriting deal with publishing giant Warner/Chappell, the largest such deal up to that time.
1993: Depeche Mode's Martin Gore was arrested at the Denver Westin Hotel after refusing to turn down the volume of his music in his room.
1998: Michael Jackson announces that wife Debbie Rowe is pregnant with his first child, denying tabloid reports that Rowe was paid to be artificially impregnated and carry the child to term.
1998: Oasis singer Liam Gallagher was arrested after an alleged drunken brawl with photographer Mel Bouzac at a London pub. Bouzac had been tipped off that Liam was in the pub wearing a Russian hat and attempted to take photos.
