December 13

Births

1948: Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (Guitar for Steely Dan & The Doobie Brothers)

1948: Ted Nugent (Guitar for Amboy Dukes, Damn Yankees & Solo)

1949: Tom Verlaine (Guitar & Vocals for Television & Solo)

1954: Steve Forbert (Singer / Songwriter)

1957: Morris Day (Singer for The Time & Solo)

1958: Dana Strum (Bass for Slaughter & Vinnie Vincent’s Invasion)

1967: Jamie Foxx (born Eric Marlon Bishop) (R&B singer,  Pianist & Actor)

1974: Nick McCarthy (Guitar for Franz Ferdinand)

1975: Tom Delonge (Guitar & Lead Vocals for Blink 182 & Angels & Airwaves)

1981: Amy Lee (Vocals for Evanescence)

1989: Taylor Swift (Country Singer / Songwriter)

Events

1966: Jimi Hendrix makes his TV debut, performing "Hey Joe" on the UK variety show Ready Steady Go! The Jimi Hendrix Experience also recorded 'Foxy Lady' on this day.

1969: Diana Ross took the Latino Casino in Philadelphia to court for $27,500 after her two pet dogs died after eating cyanide tablets left by an exterminator in her dressing room.

1974: George Harrison is invited to the White House to have lunch with President Gerald Ford. He brings along Billy Preston and Ravi Shankar, and gives the President a button with the word "OM" on it, to aid in meditation; Ford responds by gifting George with a "WIN" (Whip Inflation Now) button.

1974: George Jones leaves Tammy Wynette permanently.

1983: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant reunite for the first time since the band's tragic breakup two years earlier, with Page stepping onstage at Plant's Hammersmith Odeon concert for a rendition of Roy Head's "Treat Her Right."

1985: Phil Collins made his U.S. TV acting debut on "Miami Vice" playing a drug dealer.

1991: What would be the last of John Denver's many successful holiday specials, Montana Christmas Skies, airs on CBS, featuring country music guests Clint Black, Patty Loveless, and Kathy Mattea.

1996: The Eagles' Glenn Frey makes his first and last major film appearance when the romantic comedy Jerry Maguire opens in US theatres.

1999: BMI declares the Righteous Brothers' 1965 smash "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" as the most-performed song of the century.

2000: The respected UK rock magazine Melody Maker announces its imminent demise after 74 years of publication.

2001: The two surviving members of Nirvana, Krist Novoselic and David Grohl, filed a countersuit against Courtney Love. The charge was that she has manipulated the memory and work of her dead husband, Kirk Cobain, for the benefit of her own career.

2004: For the first time, Dick Clark is forced to bow out from hosting his annual ABC event Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years Eve due to complications from a recent stroke.

2008: UK Rapper Dizzee Rascal was arrested in south-east London following an incident involving a baseball bat. The rapper allegedly approached another motorist with a baseball bat after a road rage incident. Rascal whose real name is Dylan Mills, was held on suspicion of possessing an offensive weapon in Sevenoaks Way, Orpington.