Births
1947: Jeff
Hanna (Guitar & Vocals for Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1950: Bonnie
Pointer (Singer in The Pointer Sisters & Solo)
1957: Peter Murphy (Vocals for Bauhaus & Solo)
1957:
Michael Rose (Singer for Black Uhuru)
1959: Richie Sambora (Guitar for Bon Jovi &
Solo)
1959: Susanne Vega (Singer / Songwriter)
1965: Scott Shriner (Bass for Weezer)
1973: Andrew Bird (Singer / Songwriter)
1974: Lil' Kim (Rapper)
Events
1946: Dean
Martin begins his recording career mere weeks before teaming up with nightclub
comic Jerry Lewis.
1969: The
Rolling Stones released the single "Honky Tonk Women" in the US.
1970: The soundtrack album
'Woodstock' started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart.
1976: Andy
Gibb marries girlfriend Kim Reeder in Australia.
1976: Frank
Sinatra marries for the fourth time, this time to Barbara Marx, former wife of
the Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx.
1982: Phil Collen, former guitarist with the glam
rock band Girl, replaced Pete Willis in Def Leppard who was fired due to
excessive alcohol consumption on the job.
1992: Jerry
Garcia introduces a series of neckties he's designed, bearing his name.
President Bill Clinton immediately buys the set of eight.
1994: Michael
Jackson's spokesperson publicly denies rampant rumors that the singer has
married Lisa Marie Presley.
1995: Mike Mills (Bass for R.E.M.) underwent
emergency intestinal surgery in Germany. Seven shows of R.E.M.'s European tour
had to be cancelled.
2000: Lars Ulrich (Drummer for Metallica) was the
first witness to testify at a U.S. Senate hearing over copyright law issues
concerning free sharing of music files on Web sites such as Napster and
MP3.com.
2002: The
funeral of longtime Who bassist John Entwistle is held in St. Edward's Church
in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England, and attended by over 200
mourners.
2004: In an
attempt to recapture Elvis' record of most UK Number Ones, his first single,
1954's "That's All Right," is rereleased on its 50th anniversary.
2009: The Black Eyes Peas ‘I Gotta Feeling’
started a 14-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart ending the 12-week run of
the band’s previous single ‘Boom Boom Pow’. It made the band only the fourth to
replace themselves at No.1 in chart history, following The Beatles, Boyz II
Men, and OutKast.
2011: Morrissey was hospitalized with
hand and arm injuries after being attacked by a dog in England. The former
Smiths frontman did not postponed any upcoming shows due to the incident.
