Births
1904: Coleman Hawkins (Jazz Sax Player)
1940: Dr. John (Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr.) (Singer / Songwriter)
1965: Bjork Gudmundsdottir (Singer for The Sugarcubes and Solo)
1968: Alex James (Bass for Blur)
Events
1877: Thomas A. Edison unveils his new "talking machine," later dubbed the phonograph, to a gathering of friends and colleagues.
1960: Ray Charles has four singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart today: "Georgia on My Mind" at #5, "Ruby" at #51, "Hard Hearted Hannah" at #66, and "Come Rain Or Come Shine" at #95.
1962: Elvis Presley's 11th film, Girls! Girls! Girls!, opens in US theaters.
1968: With girlfriend Yoko Ono about to miscarry their first son, John Ono Lennon II, John Lennon asks for a tape recorder to be brought to the hospital so that he can record the baby's dying heartbeat. Later that day, Yoko miscarries; the baby is buried in a secret location and the recording appears on the duo's album Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions as a track called "Baby's Heartbeat," followed by "Two Minutes Silence" for his death.
1970: The Partridge Family started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I Think I Love You'. The song was featured in the first episode of the Partridge Family TV series, made by the same company that made The Monkees.
1974: Wilson Pickett is arrested in New York for illegal possession of a firearm after pulling a gun on someone during an argument.
1974: After years of estrangement, Marty Balin is convinced to reunite with the Jefferson Airplane -- now named Jefferson Starship -- onstage at the Winterland ballroom in San Francisco, paving the way for his official reinvolvement with the band on Red Octopus.
1975: Elton John is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in conjunction with an "Elton John Week" being declared in Los Angeles.
1980: The Eagles' Don Henley is arrested in Los Angeles and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor when paramedics are called to his home to save a sixteen-year-old girl overdosing on cocaine and Quaaludes. He is fined $2,000 and given two years' probation.
1982: Joni Mitchell marries her bass player, Larry Klein, at manager Elliot Roberts' home in Malibu, CA.
1990: After a decade-long relationship, Mick Jagger marries model/actress Jerry Hall in a six-hour ceremony on the island of Bali. Eight years later, almost to the day, their marriage would be annulled after a judge rules the couple were never registered with authorities (and after Hall learns that Jagger is the father of someone else's child).
1991: Aerosmith guest stars on tonight's "Flaming Moe" episode of Fox-TV's The Simpsons.
1995: Matthew Ashman, former Adam And The Ants and Bow Wow Wow guitarist died aged 35 from complications caused by diabetes.
1995: 2pac Shakur and Tha Dogg Pound gave out 2,000 turkeys in Los Angeles, CA.
1995: Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong was arrested and fined $141 for dropping his pants at a concert in Milwaukee, WI.
1997: Coolio and seven members of his band 40 Thevz were arrested and charged with theft and assault in a boutique in the town of Boblingen, Germany. The eight were charged with assaulting a female clerk in a clothing store and stealing clothing worth $2,000.
2003: The acoustic guitar on which George Harrison learned how to play is sold at a London auction for $500,000. The original price of the guitar: $7.00.
2003: In Santa Barbara, CA, Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation. Jackson immediately posted the $3 million bail and then flew back to Las Vegas where he had been filming a video. He was given an arraignment date of January 9, 2004.
2003: The Los Angeles Times reports that Phil Spector's chauffeur heard him say, "I think I killed somebody," after the shooting death of b-movie actress Lana Clarkson in his Alhambra, CA home.
2007, The Red Hot Chili Peppers were suing The Showtime network over the name of its TV show ‘Californication’ saying the title was "immediately associated in the mind of the consumer" with its 1999 album and single release.
