Births
1947: Buckwheat Zydeco (Zydeco Musician)
1948: James "JY" Young (Guitar & Vocals in Styx)
1951: Stephen Bishop (Singer / Songwriter & Guitarist)
1952: Alec John Such (Bass for Bon Jovi)
1954: Yanni (Keyboardist & Composer)
1964: Joseph 'Run' Simmons (Rapper in Run- DMC)
1968: Brian Yale (Bass for Matchbox Twenty)
1969: Butch Walker (Singer & Guitar in Marvelous 3 and Solo)
1972: Douglas Payne (Bass for Travis)
1974: Adina Howard (R&B Singer)
1975: Travis Barker (Drummer for Blink 182)
Events
1951: Hank Williams makes his first national TV appearance, on CBS-TV's "The Perry Como Show," performing "Hey, Good Lookin'".
1957: The Boston stop on Alan Freed's "Biggest Show Of Stars" concert is the scene of yet another rock and roll "riot" when five audience members are arrested for fighting during a performance by Fats Domino. One audience member, a sailor, is stabbed during the fight.
1964: At the start of her first UK tour, Dusty Springfield causes a furor when she tells a local magazine: "I wish I'd been born colored. When it comes to singing and feeling, I want to be one of them and not me. Then I see how some of them are treated and I thank God I'm white."
1964: Them, the Van Morrison-led band who would later score a hit with the garage-rock classic "Gloria," backs up legendary bluesman Jimmy Reed during a British tour.
1967: Pink Floyd begin their first UK tour at the Royal Albert Hall in London, playing on a package bill with The Move, Nice, Amen Corner, and the headliner, the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
1987: In an initially awkward but eventually moving live event, David Letterman convinces guest Cher to sing "I Got You Babe" just one more time with embittered ex Sonny Bono on his NBC-TV Late Night program. Both Sonny and Cher are left in tears, though no reunion is forthcoming.
1990: This week's issue of Newsweek hits the stands, featuring what seems like a stark admission from the Who's Pete Townshend -- he's bisexual. "I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman," he says. "And I won't be classified as just a man." About his song "Rough Boys," which some saw as a gay anthem, he says, "...In a way it was a coming-out. That it was a real acknowledgment of the fact that I'd been surrounded by people that I really adored -- and was actually sexually attracted to -- who were men. And that the side of me that responded to those people was a passive side, a subordinate side."
1990: Record producer Frank Farin fired Milli Vanilli singers Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan because they were insisting on singing on their new album.
1991: Over 1,000 New Kids On The Block fans were given medical treatment after a minor riot during a concert in Berlin, Germany.
1992: John Cascella, keyboardist of John Mellencamp's band, was found dead in his car in Indiana. It is believed that he died of a heart attack.
1996: Michael Jackson married Debbie Rowe in Sydney Australia. The couple had met when he was diagnosed with vitiligo in the mid-1980s, and she was working as his dermatologist's assistant. The couple divorced on October 8, 1999, with Rowe giving full custody rights of the children to Jackson with Rowe receiving an $8-million settlement.
1997: Tonight's Bee Gees show at Vegas' MGM Grand Garden Arena rakes in a record $1,681,100 -- and yet doesn't sell out entirely.
