Births
1920: Timothy Leary
(Psychologist)
1942: Annette
Funicello (Singer & Mickey Mouse Club Member)
1942: Bobby
Fuller (Vocals & Guitar for The Bobby Fuller Four)
1945: Eddie
Brigati (Vocals for The Young Rascals)
1945: Leslie
West (Guitar for Mountain)
1960: Darryl Jenifer (Bass for Bad Brains)
1964: TobyMac (Toby McKeehan) (Christian Singer / Songwriter)
1965: John Wesley Harding (Singer / Songwriter)
1968: Shaggy (Orville Richard Burrell) (Reggae
Artist)
1968: Shelby Lynne (Country Singer / Songwriter)
1976: Jon Foreman (Lead Singer / Songwriter of
Switchfoot)
1985: Zach Hanson (Drums for Hanson)
Events
1961: In
response to the ever-expanding "twist" craze, Chubby Checker performs
his original hit from a year ago, "The Twist," along with the
followup smash "Let's Twist Again," in a medley on CBS-TV's Ed
Sullivan Show. The resultant attention boosted both singles back into the
Hot 100, and shot "The Twist" back to #1 in early 1962, marking the
only time the same single has hit the top spot in two separate years.
1963: A
24-year-old Kenny Rogers takes his third wife, Margo Gladys Anderson.
1963: David Allan Coe begins serving a four-year
prison sentence at the Ohio State Penitentiary, for car theft, possession of
obscene materials and possession of burglary tools. He later claims he killed a
fellow inmate during his incarceration.
1964: Mod
rockers the High Numbers fail their audition with the EMI label, but within a
year will find success on Brunswick Records as The Who.
1966: The Supremes became the first female group
to have a No.1 album on the US char whith 'The Supremes a Go Go', knocking The
Beatles 'Revolver', from the top of the charts.
1969: An
understandably miffed and somewhat confused Paul McCartney issues an official
press release through Apple stating that he is not, in fact, dead, and then
retires to his farm in Scotland (where Life magazine will track him down
to further prove his not-deadness).
1976: Keith Moon performed for the last time with
The Who.
1990: Pearl Jam played their first ever concert
when they appeared at the Off Ramp in Seattle.
1993: Annette
Funicello is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6834 Hollywood Blvd.
1996: Apple
announces that The Beatles have sold an unprecedented 19 million albums this
year as a result of the Anthology juggernaut, with 41% of those sales,
according to polls, going to fans who weren't even born when the group broke
up.
2003: Singer
/ Songwriter Elliot Smith committed suicide at age 34. One time member of
Stranger Than Fiction, he had a solo 1997 album 'Either/Or'.
