Births
1941: Jim Seals (Singer in Seals and Crofts)
1942: Gary Puckett (Guitar & Vocals in Gary Puckett & The Union
Gap)
1958: Alan Jackson
(Country Singer)
1967: Allen West (Guitarist for Obituary & Cause of Death)
1968: Ziggy Marley
(Singer in Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers)
1969: Wyclef Jean (Rapper
in The Fugees & Solo)
1971: Chris Kirkpatrick
(Singer in *NSYNC)
1972: Eminem (Marshall
Mathers) (Rapper)
Events
1945: Ava Gardner marries her second husband, bandleader Artie Shaw.
1957: Elvis' third film, Jailhouse Rock, has its world premiere at
the Loews State Theatre in Memphis, TN -- the same movie house where Elvis had
his first job as an usher just five years earlier.
1960: Dion and the Belmonts' breakup becomes official when it is reported
in Billboard magazine. Lead singer Dion DiMucci claims the group's not
bluesy enough; the band claims Dion just wants a taste of solo fame.
1962: The Beatles make their very first television appearance anywhere when
part of their afternoon show at the Cavern in Liverpool is broadcast live on
Granada television's People And Places. The band performs two songs:
"Some Other Guy" and "Love Me Do."
1967: Phil Spector, Tommy Boyce, and Bobby Hart all guest star on tonight's
"Jeannie, The Hip Hippie" episode of NBC-TV's I Dream of Jeannie.
1969: Paul Kantner of
Jefferson Airplane was busted for marijuana possession in Honolulu and was
fined $350.
1975: Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees marries his second wife, Yvonne
Spencely.
1977: "Street
Survivors" was released by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Three days later vocalist
Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines (Steve's sister) and
road manager Dean Kilpatrick were killed when their plane crashed in Gillsburg,
MS. The other four members of the band were seriously injured but survived the
crash. The album cover with recalled because it had flames in the background of
the band.
1981: One man is killed and another injured in an attempted burglary of
Rolling Stones ticket offices in Maryland.
1995: Sting's former
accountant Keith Moore was sentenced to six years in jail after being found
guilty of embezzling $9.4 Million from the singer's 108 bank accounts.
1996: Drummer for Lush
Chris Acland committed suicide by hanging himself in his parents' house in
Burneside, Cumbria.
1999: Having been diagnosed with a severe case of pneumonia, Johnny Cash is
admitted to Baptist Hospital in Nashville.
2000: At a charity auction organized by Mick Fleetwood in London, singer
George Michael pays $2 ½ Million for the upright piano on which John Lennon
wrote the 1971 hit "Imagine."
2001: Jay-Z was sentenced to three years probation
after he pled guilty to misdemeanor assault charges for stabbing a record
producer during a fight in a nightclub on December 1, 1999.
2005: Fats Domino returns to his Ninth Ward home for the first time since
Hurricane Katrina to find it utterly destroyed, with his piano and several of
his gold records among the ruined items.
2006: Tim McGraw receives
a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His honor is located at 6901 Hollywood
Boulevard, in front of the Virgin Records store.
2007: The section of West Grand Blvd. in Detroit, MI, that once housed the
Motown studios is officially renamed "Berry Gordy Jr. Boulevard."
2007:
California claims singer and resident Dionne Warwick owes $2.67 million in
unpaid taxes.
2008:
Madonna and Guy Ritchie announced that their seven-year marriage was over
because they had drifted apart.
