Births
1909: Burl
Ives (Singer)
1936: Obie
Benson (Bass Singer for The Four Tops)
1941: Jr.
Walker (Singer & Sax in Jr. Walker and the All-Stars)
1945: Rod
Argent (Keyboard & Vocals for The Zombies & Argent)
1949: Alan
White (Drummer for Yes & Plastic Ono Band)
1956: King Diamond (Kim Bendix Petersen) (Singer for King Diamond &
Mercyful Fate)
1958: Nick Van Eede (Singer for The Cutting Crew)
1961: Boy George (George O'Dowd) (Singer for The
Culture Club)
1963: Chris Degarmo (Guitar for Queensryche)
1969: MC Ren (Lorenzo Jerald Patterson) (Rapper)
1975: Bob Nanna (Guitar & Vocals for Braid
& Hey Mercedes)
Events
1957: Ava
Gardner divorces Frank Sinatra after 6 years of marriage and left for Spain to
be with Ernest Hemingway.
1961: After a
performance at the Majestic Theatre in Newcastle, England Gene Vincent is
mobbed by admirers who accidentally push him down a flight of stairs, where he
is knocked out.
1961: Patsy
Cline is involved in an infamous head-on collision on Old Hickory Boulevard in
Nashville, TN. She is thrown into the windshield by the impact and sustains
major head, wrist, and hip injuries. She will be hospitalized for a month,
during which time she will become a convert to Christianity.
1964: Workers
at a London railway station open a tea chest addressed to the Beatles and find
12-year-old Carol Dryden, a fan who'd decided to mail herself to the group.
1965: Bob Dylan recorded
"Like A Rolling Stone."
1965: Paul McCartney recorded
"Yesterday" for the album ‘Help!’.
1968: Rod
Stewart becomes a star in the US after the Jeff Beck Group, for which he sings
lead, opens at New York's Fillmore East. The 23-year-old Stewart is still so
new to the stage that he hides behind a stack of speakers during the first
song.
1969: In
London's Hyde Park, Mick Taylor attends his first photo shoot as a new member
of the Rolling Stones.
1969: R&B
Singer Wynonie Harris died of esophageal cancer.
1970: Derek
and the Dominoes step on the stage for the first time under that name as they
play the Lyceum in London.
1970: Blood
Sweat and Tears become the first Western rock band to perform "behind the
iron curtain" in a Soviet country.
1970: Grand
Funk Railroad unveil their famous "Closer To Home" billboard in New
York, which costs $100,000 and takes a full city block to promote their new
single of the same name.
1971: In London, the first Hard Rock Cafe opened.
1972: Yet
another unruly crowd at a Rolling Stones concert, with cops dispensing tear gas
into the audience at today's gig in Tucson, AZ.
1979: Little
Feat announce their breakup.
1986: Three fans died during an Ozzy Osbourne gig
at Long Beach Arena, California after falling from a balcony.
1988: The Fat Boys filed a $5 million law suit
against Miller Beer and Joe Piscopo for using their likeness in a Miller Lite
"Rappin "Fats" Piscopo commercial.
1988: Chuck
Berry is sued for five million dollars by a woman who claimed he punched her in
the mouth during an argument.
1989: Pete De Freitas, drummer with Echo And The
Bunnymen, was killed at the age of 27 when his motorcycle collided with a car.
1993: Pepsi's
famous "You got the right one, baby!" ads featuring Ray Charles are
pulled after medical waste begins showing up in some cans of the product.
1994:
Composer Henry Mancini died of pancreatic cancer at age 70.
1995:
Guitarist Rory Gallagher complications from a liver transplant at age 47.
1995: Michael Jackson appeared on TV with his
wife Lisa Marie Presley in a live interview with Diane Sawyer.
1996: George
Martin, Beatles producer, is made a knight by Queen Elizabeth II.
1997: Puff Daddy and Faith Evans started a 11
week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I'll Be Missing You', a tribute
to the late Notorious B.I.G.
2002: In Lubbock, TX, a power failure ended a
Britney Spears concert after only two songs.
2002: Mick
Jagger of the Rolling Stones is made a knight by Queen Elizabeth II; one year
later to the day, Gerry and the Pacemakers' Gerry Marsden is awarded the MBE.
2006: Rufus
Wainwright, son of folksinger Loudon, recreates the whole of Judy Garland's
legendary 1961 Carnegie Hall concert at the famous institution in order to mark
the show's 35th anniversary.
