Births
1927: Stan Getz (Jazz Sax Player)
1942: Graham Nash (Singer / Songwriter in The Hollies & Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young)
1947: Peter Lucia (Drummer for Tommy James and the Shondells)
1947: Farrah Fawcett (Just Because)
1949: Ross Valory (Bass for Journey & Steve Miller Band)
1963: Eva Cassidy (Singer)
1966: Robert Deleo (Bass for Stone Temple Pilots)
1977: Shakira (Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll) (Singer)
1980: Gucci Mane (Radric Davis ) (Rapper)
Events
1957: Fats Domino makes an appearance on 's The Perry Como Show, singing his hits "Blue Monday" and "Blueberry Hill."
1959: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper play their last show as part of the "Winter Dance Party" tour, stopping this night at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, IA. Admission: $1.25. The last song of the night: The Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace."
1969: "Carl Perkins Day" is declared in Jackson, TN, where the singer moved with his family at 18.
1969: Yoko Ono divorced her husband Tony Cox, Yoko was granted custody of their daughter Kyoko. John Lennon and married Yoko the following month on 30th March.
1973: Emerson, Lake, and Palmer keyboard player Keith Emerson injures his hands when a rigged piano explodes prematurely during a San Francisco gig, leaving him with minor cuts and a broken fingernail.
1973: Elvis Presley meets boxer Muhammed Ali in Las Vegas, presenting him with a robe emblazoned with the words "The People's Champion." Ali responds by giving Elvis boxing gloves inscribed "You're the greatest" (left) and "To Elvis, my main man, from Muhammad Ali" (right). Ali recollects later: "I felt sorry for him because he didn't enjoy life the way he should. He stayed indoors all the time. I told him he should go out and see people."
1973: NBC debuts The Midnight Special rock variety show, its response to ABC's popular In Concert series. The first host: Helen Reddy.
1976: Genesis released 'A Trick Of The Tail', their seventh studio album and the first to feature drummer Phil Collins as full-time lead vocalist following the departure of original vocalist Peter Gabriel. After auditioning over 400 vocalists, which saw Collins teaching the potential lead singers the songs, the band decided that Collins should be the new vocalist.
1979: Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose in New York City at age 21. There had been a party to celebrate Vicious' release on $50,000 bail pending his trial for the murder of his former girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, the previous October. Party guests, said that Vicious had taken heroin at midnight. An autopsy confirmed that Vicious died from an accumulation of fluid in the lungs that was consistent with heroin overdose. A syringe, spoon and heroin residue were discovered near the body.
1992: Todd Rundgren and wife Michele become the proud parents of a son they name "Rebop."
1993: Willie Nelson settles his $17 million tax debt with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service by paying them nine million dollars in cash and assets already seized.
1996: Gene Kelly died after a stroke he had a year earlier at age 83.
1999: Freddy Fender is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2007: US keyboardist Joe Hunter, a veteran session musician as one of the Funk Brothers who helped craft the distinctive Motown sound, died of natural causes in Detroit, Michigan, at the age of 79.
2010: Tim McGraw and Gwyneth Paltrow shoot concert footage for the movie "Country Strong" at Nashville's Municipal Auditorium. The Lost Trailers entertain extras during the day.
2011: Zac and Shelly Brown have a daughter, Joni Mason Brown, at their home in the Atlanta area.
