Births
1925: Max Roach (Jazz Drummer)
1943: Jim Croce (Singer / Songwriter)
1944: Frank Sinatra Jr. (Son of The Man)
1945: Rod Stewart (Singer / Songwriter)
1946: Aynsley Dunbar (Drummer for John Mayall & Jefferson Starship)
1948: Donald Fagen (Vocals & Keyboards for Steely Dan & Solo)
1953: Pat Benatar (Singer)
1955: Michael Schenker (Guitar for UFO, SCorpions & Solo)
1956: Shawn Colvin (Singer / Songwriter)
1956: Don Letts (DJ for Big Audio Dynamite)
1959: Curt Kirkwood (Singer & Guitarist for The Meat Puppets)
1964: Brad Roberts (Lead Singer & Guitar for Crash Test Dummies)
1978: Matt Roberts (Guitarist for 3 Doors Down)
1978: Brent Smith (Singer for Shinedown)
1979: Chris Smith (Rapper in Kris Kross)
Events
1949: RCA announces its newest creation, the seven-inch vinyl record to be played at 45 rpm. The "45," as it would soon be known, would become the driving force of the record business in the early days of rock and roll.
1956: Elvis Presley made his first recordings for RCA Records at The Methodist television, radio & TV Studios in Nashville. 'Heartbreak Hotel' was one of the songs recorded during this session.
1965: American promoter Sid Bernstein, having already presented the Beatles at Carnegie Hall, calls group manager Brian Epstein about a possible Shea Stadium concert. It would be the first stadium concert by a rock group.
1969: George Harrison quits the Beatles for a short while, making him the second Beatle to do so (Ringo had left the group for a brief period a year earlier).
1971: The suit to officially dissolve the Beatles as a group gets underway in court.
1971: Bob Dylan appears on an NBC documentary accompanying bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs on Dylan's "East Virginia Blues" and "Nashville Skyline Rag."
1976: Howlin' Wolf died from complications of kidney disease.
1978: The Sex Pistols make their US TV debut on the show 'Variety'.
1979: Richard Carpenter of the Carpenters duo enters into rehab in a Topeka, KS facility.
1979: The trial of ex-Sex Pistol, Sid Vicious for the October 1978 murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, opened in New York City. Vicious died of a heroin overdose, thereby not living to hear the verdict.
1984: Cyndi Lauper became the first female recording artist since Bobbie Gentry in 1967 to be nominated for five Grammy Awards: Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Performance (Female), Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
1997: James Brown receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2000: Singer Melissa Etheridge announced that David Crosby was the sperm donor of her two children with girlfriend Julie Cypher.
2001: American guitarist and songwriter and founder member of The Cramps Bryan Gregory died after suffering a heart attack aged 46 at Anaheim Memorial Medical Center, Anaheim, California.
2003: British and Dutch police recover 500 Beatles master tapes missing since a theft some thirty or so years earlier.
2005: A woman was suing Gene Simmons from Kiss for slander, alleging a documentary made her out to be a "sex-addicted nymphomaniac". Georgeann Walsh Ward, 53, of New York, said during a VH1 documentary her photo was flashed up as Simmons talked about his past sexual encounters. Ms Walsh Ward had dated Simmons for three years when he was a student. In the documentary, Simmons boasted of having sex with over 4,600 women.
2009: Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie married actor Josh Duhamel at the Church Estates Vineyards in Malibu. Guests included her bandmate Will.i.am and actress Kate Hudson.
