Births
1888: Leadbelly (Blues Musician)
1922: Ray Anthony (Big Band Leader)
1951: Ian Hill (Bass for Judas Priest)
1952: Paul Stanley (Vocals & Guitar for KISS)
1955: Michael Anthony (Bass for Van Halen)
1965: John Michael Montgomery (Country Artist)
1965: Greg Kriesel (Bass for The Offspring)
1966: Tracii Guns (Guitar for L.A. Guns & Guns N’ Roses first Guitarist)
1971: ?uestlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) (Drummer for The Roots)
1979: Rob Bourdon (Drummer for Linkin Park)
1980: Matthew Tuck (Lead Vocals & Rhythm Guitar for Bullet For My Valentine)
Events
1958: Elvis Presley receives his draft notice in Memphis, TN. It allows a sixty-day deferment for the King to finish his film King Creole.
1964: The Beatles album “Meet The Beatles” is released in the US. The whole album was 27:00 minutes long.
1965: The Rolling Stones and the Kinks both make their debut on ABC's Shindig! along with guests Dave Clark Five, Petula Clark, Bobby Vee, Bobby Sherman and Gerry and the Pacemakers.
1968: In his first public appearance since his motorcycle accident two years earlier, Bob Dylan joins Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Odetta, Richie Havens, Ramblin' Jack Elliot and the Band at a Carnegie Hall tribute concert for Woody Guthrie.
1971: Diana Ross marries Bob Silberstein.
1973: Following his newfound success as a country and western artist, Jerry Lee Lewis finally takes the stage at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry. Although officials instruct him to play only country and to keep his comments clean, Lewis eventually breaks both rules, playing his classic rock and roll hits and declaring himself "the rock & rollin', country and western, rhythm and blues singin' motherf-----."
1974: After only five months of recovery from a near-fatal car crash, Stevie Wonder returns to performance with a show at London's Rainbow Theatre.
1982: Ozzy Osborne bit the head off of a bat in Des Moines, IA, and was hospitalized to undertake a series of rabies shots.
1988: The Third Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are held in New York City. Inductees include The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Drifters, Bob Dylan, and The Supremes. Beach Boy Mike Love raises eyebrows with his acceptance speech, which methodically insults most of the honorees (among others).
1999: Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots), while on probation for a 1997 heroin case, was arrested for failing to provide a urine sample to his live-in drug treatment center.
