November 30

Births

1915: Brownie McGhee (Blues Singer)

1929: Dick Clark (DJ)

1943: Rob Grill (Lead Singer for The Grass Roots)

1945: Roger Glover (Bass for Deep Purple)

1953: Shuggie Otis (Singer / Songwriter)

1953: June Pointer (Singer in The Pointer Sisters & Solo)

1955: Billy Idol (William Broad) (Singer in Generation X & Solo)

1957: John Ashton (Guitar for The Psychedelic Furs)

1958: Stacey Q (Stacey Lynn Swain) (Pop Singer)

1959: Cherie Currie (Singer for The Runaways)

1968: Des’ree (Desirée Annette Weeks) (R&B Singer)

1973: John Moyer (Bass for Disturbed)

1975: Mindy McCready (Country Singer)

1978: Clay Aiken (Singer)

Events

1940: Desi Arnaz marries Lucille Ball.

1954: Nat "King" Cole begins a six-night run at Harlem's Apollo theater.

1959: In a Billboard article, DJ Alan Freed claims that his career has gone "down the drain" due to the recent "payola" scandal.

1963: The Beatles second album 'With The Beatles' became the first million selling album by a group in the UK. The album stayed at the top of the charts for 21 weeks, displacing Please Please Me, so that The Beatles occupied the top spot for 51 consecutive weeks.

1969: NBC airs Simon and Garfunkel's Songs Of America special, even after sponsor AT&T backs out over the show's plan to show footage of the Bobby Kennedy funeral and the Vietnam war.

1969: The Monkees made what would be their last live appearance for 15 years when they played at The Oakland Coliseum, California.

1977: David Bowie appears on Bing Crosby's 42nd (and last) Christmas special on CBS. The two sing a medley of "Little Drummer Boy" and "Peace On Earth."

1982: Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' album was released. It spent 190 weeks on the album charts became the biggest selling pop album of all time, with sales over 50 million copies.

1988: LL Cool J performed the first rap concert held in Africa.

1991: Milli Vanilli singer Rob Pilatus attempted suicide while staying at The Mondrain Hotel, Los Angeles by taking an overdose of sleeping pills and slashing his wrists.

1994: Tupac Shakur was shot five times during a robbery outside a New York City recording studio.

1996: While playing at a Gala Benefit at The Woman's Club of Minneapolis, Tiny Tim had a heart attack and died.

1997: Chumbawamba's Danbert Nobacon was arrested by Italian police for wearing a skirt and was detained in police cells overnight.

2003: A block of East 2nd Street in New York City was officially renamed Joey Ramone Place. It is the block where Joey once lived with band mate Dee Dee Ramone, and is near the music club CBGB, where the Ramones played their first gigs.

2005: Police were investigating claims that Michael Jackson was trafficking drugs to feed his 40 pills-a-day habit. The singer was suspected of flying antidepressants and painkillers from the US to his current home in Bahrain.