Births
1943: Kenny
Gamble (Songwriter)
1943: Jim
Kale (Bass for The Guess Who)
1949: Eric
Carmen (Vocals & Keyboards for The Raspberries & Solo)
1950: Erik Brann (Guitar for Iron Butterfly)
1954: Bryan
Bassett (Guitar for Wild Cherry)
1954: Joe Jackson (Singer / Songwriter)
1957: Richie
Ramone (Richard Reinhardt)
(Drummer for The Ramones)
1968:
Charlie Sexton (Guitarist & Singer / Songwriter)
1970: Andy Bell (Guitar & vocals for Ride and
Bass for Oasis & Beady Eye)
1970: Ali Shaheed Muhammad
(DJ & Rapper in A Tribe Called Quest)
1976: Ben Gibbard (Lead Singer & Guitar for
Death Cab for Cutie & The Postal Service)
1978: Mac Daddy (Chris Kelly) (Rapper in Kris
Kross)
1985: J-Boog (Jarell
Damonte Houston)(Singer in B2K)
1985: Asher Roth
(Rapper)
Events
1951:
Hank Williams hits #1 in Billboard's country chart with "Hey, Good
Lookin'".
1952: Hank Williams was
fired from the Grand Ole Opry and told not to return until he was sober.
1956: Elvis Presley's
double sided hit 'Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog’ was released. The single went to
No.1 on the US chart, where it stayed for 11 weeks - a record that would not be
broken until 1992's Boyz II Men hit 'End of the Road'.
1962: Booker T. and the
MG's instrumental song, "Green Onions," was released.
1964: The
Who, temporarily known as the High Numbers, take the stage at Harrow, England's
Railway Hotel, but not before lead singer Roger Daltrey is involved in a
fistfight with his father-in-law just outside.
1964: The
Beatles' first film, A Hard Day's Night, has its US premiere in New York
City.
1966: The
Beatles fly to Chicago to begin their last world tour and give a press
conference at the Astor Towers Hotel at which John Lennon attempts to apologize
for his recent "bigger than Jesus" remarks: "If I had said
television is more popular than Jesus, I might have got away with it...
originally I was pointing out that fact in reference to England-- that we meant
more to kids than Jesus did, or religion, at that time. I wasn't knocking it or
putting it down, I was just saying it as a fact... I'm not saying that we're
better, or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a
thing or whatever it is, you know. I just said what I said and it was wrong, or
was taken wrong. And now it's all this..." Paul: "And this is the
point-- you know, this is why we're getting in all these messes with saying
things. Because, you know, we're just trying to move forwards. And people seem
to be trying to just sort of hold us back and not want us to say anything
that's vaguely sort of, you know, inflammatory... I think it's better for
everyone if we're just honest about the whole thing." George: "Well,
in the context that it was meant -- it was the fact that Christianity is
declining, and everybody knows about that, and that was the fact that was
trying to be made... I agree that it's on the wane." Ringo: "Well, I
just hope it's all over now, you know. I hope everyone's straightened out, and
it's finished."
1969: Diana
Ross holds a party for 350 at Beverly Hills' Daisy Club to announce her
discovery of the singing group the Jackson 5 -- even though Gladys Knight
actually recommended them to Motown head Berry Gordy. That night, the group
gains even more exposure by performing at the first Miss Black America pageant.
1972: The
mayor of San Antonio, TX, declares today "Cheech and Chong Day" after
the popular comedy duo, although neither was born anywhere near the city.
1972: Elvis and Pricilla Presley filed for divorce.
They had married in May of 1967.
1973: Rather
than join Paul McCartney in traveling to Nigeria to record the band's latest
album, Band On The Run, Henry McCullough and Denny Seiwell both quit
Wings, forcing Paul, wife Linda, and Denny Laine to record the album as a trio.
1976: Keith
Moon of the Who is hospitalized after having a complete mental breakdown and
trashing his room at the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami, FL.
1982: Donna
Summer has her first daughter, Amada Grace Sudano, with husband Bruce Sudano.
1984: Ray Parker JR. started a three week run at
No.1 on the US singles chart with the theme from the film 'Ghostbusters'.
Parker who had been a session guitarist for Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye was
accused of plagiarizing the melody from Huey Lewis and the News song ‘I Want a
New Drug’, resulting in Lewis suing Parker, the pair settled out of court in
1985.
1986: Thanks
to MTV's repeated marathons of their Sixties TV show, six vintage albums by The
Monkees re-enter the Billboard album charts.
1987: Rolling
Stone magazine declares the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band the best album of the last twenty years.
1989: Three members of L.L. Cool J crew were
arrested and charged with raping a 15 year-old girl. The incident took place
after a concert when the girl had won a backstage pass on a radio contest.
1992: The
vast Mall of America opens in Bloomington, MN with Ray Charles on hand to sing
his famous version of "America The Beautiful."
1996: Mel
Taylor (Drummer for The Ventures) died from cancer. Only two weeks elapsed between Taylor's
cancer diagnosis until his death. He had been a cigarette smoker, but had quit
the habit about 11 years before his death.
1999: KISS
are awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2000: Madonna gave birth to a
baby boy Rocco Ritchie at The Cedars-Sinai Hospital Beverly Hills.
2005: Steve Earle and Allison Moorer are married at the
Hermitage Hotel in downtown Nashville. It's his seventh wedding, her second.
2011: 18-year-old pop singer Miranda Cosgrove has suffered a
broken ankle after her tour bus was involved in an accident.
