Births
1914: Ivory Joe Hunter (R&B Singer)
1917: Thelonious Monk (Jazz Pianist)
1946: John Prine (Country / Folk Singer-Songwriter)
1953: Midge Ure
(Guitarist & Singer / Songwriter)
1954: David Lee Roth
(Vocals for Van Halen & Solo)
1958: Tanya Tucker (Country Singer)
1960: Eric Martin (Vocals for Mr Big)
1979: Mya (Mya Marie
Harrison) (R&B Singer)
Events
1902: Kalamazoo, MI, mandolin maker Orville Gibson founds the Gibson
Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co, Ltd. In 1936 it would create the first commercially
successful electric guitar.
1959: Barry Gordy's first
release on the newly established Motown Records, "Bad Girls" by The
Miracles, entered the Billboard Pop chart.
1965: The Supremes made their first appearance on
the "Ed Sullivan Show."
1970: Neil Diamond went
to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Cracklin' Rosie', his first No.1 as an
artist. Diamond wrote the 1966 No.1 hit 'I'm A Believer' for The Monkees.
1970: The US' Federal Communications Commission (FCC) head, Nicholas
Johnson, responds to recent comments made by Vice President Spiro Agnew that
attacked radio stations for playing songs that contained "drug culture
propaganda in too many of the lyrics the message of the drug culture is
purveyed," saying, "If we really want to do something about drugs,
let's do something about life... The songwriters are trying to help us
understand our plight and deal with it. It's about the only leadership we're
getting. They're not really urging you to adopt a heroin distribution program,
Mr. Vice President."
1978: At tonight's Aerosmith show in Philadelphia, PA, an audience member
tosses a "cherry bomb" firecracker onto the stage, injuring singer
Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry. The band performs behind a chain-link
fence for the rest of the tour.
1979: Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley declares today "Fleetwood Mac
Day" and unveils a star for the band on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6608
Hollywood Blvd.
1979: The film The Rose, a thinly-veiled biopic of Janis Joplin
starring Bette Midler, premieres in Hollywood.
1987: Wanda Nicholls made
an official complaint that David Bowie raped her and bit her on the legs and
back. Bowie dismissed the alleged incident, claiming Nicholls was 'publicity
seeking.'
1992: Slash (Guitar for
Guns N' Roses) and Renee Suran were married.
1999: Las Vegas' Grand Hotel holds an auction of several hundred thousand
dollars' worth of Elvis memorabilia, including the King's wristwatch, cigar
box, and his 1956 Lincoln Continental.
2000: Britney Spears made
her UK live debut when she played the first of three sold out nights at
London's Wembley Arena.
2001:
Dennis DeYoung sues Styx, his former band, for touring and singing his songs
without him. He'd left the band in 1999 due to chronic fatigue syndrome.
2002:
Twelve protesters dressed as monkeys picketed outside the north Wales holiday
home of former Stone Roses singer Ian Brown. The demonstrators argued Brown was
selling the five-bedroom house, in the small village of Llithfaen on the Llyn
Peninsula for an inflated price - $300,000- which local people could not
afford. The monkey costumes worn by the anonymous protesters, referred to the
name of Brown's recent solo album 'Unfinished Monkey Business.'
