December 28

Births

1903: Earl "Fatha" Hines (Jazz Pianist)

1915: Pops Staples (R&B Singer in The Staple Singers)

1921: Johnny Otis (Pop Singer)

1922: Stan Lee (Comic Writer)

1946: Edgar Winter (Keyboards & Vocals for Edgar Winter Group)

1948: Ziggy Modeliste (Drummer for The Meters)

1950: Alex Chilton (Guitar & Vocals for The Box Tops, Big Star & Solo)

1953: Richard Clayderman (Pianist)

1958: Joe Diffie (Country Artist)

1960: Marty Roe (Singer in Diamond Rio)

1971: Anita Dels (Singer for 2 Unlimited)

1978: John Legend (John Stephens) (R&B Singer / Songwriter & Pianist)

Events

1963: The magazine The New Yorker publishes an interview with Beatles manager Brian Epstein in their "Talk Of The Town" column about the band's upcoming Ed Sullivan gig -- the first major press the group has received in the US.

1964: African trumpeter Hugh Masekela is a featured guest on CBS-TV's game show To Tell The Truth.

1965: Elvis Presley, surrounded by friends including Larry Geller, "drops" LSD for the first time at Graceland, joined by girlfriend Priscilla Beaulieu. After staring at each others' distorted faces, the tropical fish in his aquarium, and, the next day, at dew drops on the breathing grass, both decide that they'd be risking their sanity to try the drug again.

1968: The first major rock concert on the East Coast, the Miami Pop Festival, takes place, a three-day affair featuring Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, The Turtles, Joni Mitchell, Procol Harum, Steppenwolf, Canned Heat, Iron Butterfly, The McCoys, Fleetwood Mac, The Box Tops, Three Dog Night, Pacific Gas and Electric, and The Grateful Dead.

1972: Mick Jagger visits Managua, Nicaragua with his wife Bianca, searching for her mother after a devastating recent earthquake that claimed thousands of lives. Fortunately, Bianca's mother is fine.

1975: Ted Nugent has a .44 Magnum gun pulled on him at a concert in Spokane, WA, until the man is wrestled to the ground by security.

1983: Dennis Wilson (Drummer for The Beach Boys) drowned at Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles, after drinking all day and diving in the afternoon to recover items he had thrown overboard at the marina from his yacht three years prior.

1992: Paul Simon is the proud parent of his second son, Adrian Edward, with mother (and singer) Edie Brickell.

1993: Canadian singer Shania Twain married record producer Mutt Lange. The couple had separated in 2008 after 14 years of marriage.

1993: Billy Ray Cyrus marries Leticia Finley at home in Williamson County, Tennessee. "One cannot stand at the crossroads forever," says Cyrus, who dresses for the ceremony in blue jeans and a cut-up sweatshirt.

1998: Atlanta Rhythm Section vocalist Ronnie Hammond is shot and slightly wounded in a scuffle with police in Macon, GA, after allegedly attempting to assault an officer with a hammer and, then, a broken guitar neck. officers had been responding to a suicide attempt call concerning the singer (the second in the same month).

2000: Waylon Jennings holds a three-day-long estate sale at his home in Dixon, IL, offering up, amongst other artifacts, a motorbike that once belonged to Buddy Holly.

2002: Cambodia deports Gary Glitter and extradites him back to the UK to face a conviction in London on child pornography charges.

2003: Pete Townshend of The Who reveals to a London newspaper that he seriously considered suicide after a 2002 arrest for child pornography charges. The guitarist had claimed he was visiting child porn websites as research for a book dealing with his own sexual abuse as a child.

2003: Michael Jackson gives an emotional interview to CBS-TV's 60 Minutes, his first since being arrested on child molestation charges, claiming, "Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists."

2010: Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman have a daughter, Faith Margaret Kidman Urban, born through a surrogate mother at Nashville's Centennial Medical Center.