Births
1939: Phil Everly (Singer in The Everly Brothers)
1943: Janis Joplin (Singer)
1945: Rod Evans (Original Singer for Deep Purple)
1946: Dolly Parton (Country Singer)
1949: Robert Palmer (Singer)
1951: Dewey Bunnell (Vocals & Guitar for America)
1959: Jeff Pilson (Bass for Dokken, Dio and Foreigner)
1963: Caron Wheeler (Vocals for Soul II Soul)
1971: John Wozniak (Vocals & Guitar for Marcy Playground)
Events
1957: Pat Boone performs at the inaugural ball for President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1957: Johnny Cash makes his first national television appearance on CBS' Jackie Gleason Show.
1959: Arbitron ratings reveal that ABC's American Bandstand is now the nation's most popular daytime show.
1967: Lesley Gore appears on an episode of ABC's Batman series, playing Catwoman's sidekick, Pussycat. Gore also sings "California Nights," her recent single, on the show.
1971: Prosecutors at Charles Manson's murder trial play a recording of the Beatles' "Helter Skelter," in deference to the rumor that Manson saw the band's "White Album" as a blueprint for violent revolution.
1974: Two Miami shows featuring Bob Dylan and the Band prove so popular that they cause a nine-mile-long traffic jam. Many ticket holders only get to see half of the show(s).
1976: Rock promoter Bill Sargent offers thirty million dollars to the members of the Beatles to reunite (and is shocked when they decline).
1977: Charlie Daniels and the Marshall Tucker Band perform for President Jimmy Carter's inauguration ceremonies.
1978: Johnny Rotten was fired from The Sex Pistols for 'not being weird enough anymore.'
1980: Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' started a 15-week run at #1 on the US album chart. The group’s third US #1, it went on to sell over 23 million copies in the US alone. 'The Wall' is still the third largest grossing album in the US, behind Michael Jackson’s 'Thriller' and Eagles’ 'Greatest Hits'.
1993: The US Supreme Court rules that Tom Waits can keep all of the $2.5 million awarded him by a lower court. Waits had sued Frito-Lay for using a soundalike of him in a 1988 snack commercial.
1993: Fleetwood Mac reunites to perform for President William Jefferson Clinton's inauguration ceremonies. (Clinton had used the band's 1977 hit "Don't Stop" as his campaign theme song.)
1994: The Ninth Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are held in New York City. Inductees include The Animals, The Band, Duane Eddy, The Grateful Dead, Elton John, John Lennon, Bob Marley, and Rod Stewart.
1997: Madonna won the Best Actress award for her role in Evita at the Golden Globe Awards.
1999: Bizzy Bone (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony) went on trial in Columbus, Ohio, on charges that he dragged a student barber down a flight of stairs.
2006: Soul singer, Wilson Pickett died in hospital near his Ashburn, Virginia home of a heart attack aged 64.
