Births
1930: Sonny
Rollins (Jazz Sax Player)
1936: Buddy
Holly (Charles Hardin Holley) (Guitarist & Singer / Songwriter)
1949: Gloria
Gaynor (Disco Singer)
1951: Chrissie Hynde (Vocals for The Pretenders)
1954: Benmont Tench (Keyboards for Tom Petty
& The Heartbreakers)
1956:
Michael Feinstein (Pianist & Singer)
1957: Jermaine Stewart (Singer for Shalamar &
Solo)
1961: LeRoi Moore (Saxophonist for Dave Matthews
Band)
1964: Eazy-E (Eric
Lynn Wright) (Rapper for NWA)
1966: Chris Acland (Drummer for Lush)
1970: Chad Sexton (Drummer for 311)
Events
1957: Sam Cooke's first
single "You Send Me" was released.
1958: Riding
the crest of the nation's latest youth craze, Georgia Gibbs performs "The
Hula-Hoop Song" on tonight's broadcast of CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show.
1963: The
Rolling Stones' debut UK single, a cover of Chuck Berry's "Come On,"
stalls at #21.
1966: Roy
Orbison begins filming his one and only starring role, in the unlikely Western
comedy The Fastest Guitar Alive, with a cameo by Sam "The
Sham" Samudio of "Wooly Bully" fame.
1968: Led Zeppelin
take the stage for the first time, still under the Yardbirds name, at Denmark's
Teen-Clubs Box 45. On the same night, the Doors make their UK stage debut at
London's Roundhouse Club.
1969: After a
four-year US run, ABC-TV cancels the Beatles' cartoon series. The show
had debuted on September 25, 1965.
1973: Having
threatened to clear the label's roster of illegal drug abusers, and after
hesitating when Eric Burdon of the Animals requests to have his contract
terminated for just that reason, Mike Curb leaves his post as president of MGM
Records.
1973:
Infamous adult-movie star Linda Lovelace opens Elton John's show at the
Hollywood Bowl by introducing Elton as "the biggest, largest, most
gigantic and fantastic man" and "the co-star of my next movie."
1975: The
Guess Who hold their final concert in Montreal, though leaders Burton Cummings
and Randy Bachman have reunited onstage since then.
1976: Abba were at No.1 on the UK singles chart
with 'Dancing Queen', the group's fourth UK No.1 single and their only US No.1
chart topper. The song was a No.1 hit in over a dozen countries and stayed at
the top of the Swedish charts for 14 weeks.
1978: Keith
Moon (drummer for The Who) died of a drug overdose at age 31. He took 32 tablets of Clomethiazole (Heminevrin)
prescribed to combat alcoholism, with only 6 that cause death. The other 26 were undissolved in his body.
1984: 18 year-old Janet Jackson announced that
she had married singer James Debarge. The couple split the following year.
1985: Ringo Starr
becomes the proud grandfather of Tatia Jayne by his son Zak -- the first Beatle
to be so honored.
1986:
Completing the Monkees' unlikely comeback, Michael Nesmith finally relents and
joins the group for its first full stage reunion in Los Angeles.
1991: Gloria Estefan was awarded damages of $5
million for the injuries she sustained when her tour bus was involved in an
accident.
1991: Brooks & Dunn reach #1 in Billboard for
the first time with "Brand New Man".
1991: Motley Crue signed a record deal for which
they were guaranteed $22.5 million.
1996: Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres married model
Eva Herzigova.
1996: Tupac Shakur and Marion "Suge"
Knight are shot while in Las Vegas after a Mike Tyson fight. Shakur died six
days later.
2000: Timothy Commerford (Rage Against the Machine)
was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
Commerford had climbed a scaffold during the MTV Music Awards delaying the show
20 minutes.
2001: During
his 30th Anniversary celebration at Madison Square Garden, Michael Jackson is
reunited onstage with the Jackson 5 for the first time since 1984.
2003: Warren
Zevon died of cancer.
2010: Rascal Flatts' Joe Don Rooney and wife
Tiffany Fallon have a daughter, Raquel Blue Rooney.
2010: Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ was voted the
greatest ‘lighter in the air song of all time’ by lighter company Zippo. Led
Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway To Heaven’, was voted in at No. 2 and Meat Loaf’s ‘I Would
Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)’ was at No. 3 in the survey.
