Births
1825: Johann
Strauss II (Composer)
1912: Minnie
Pearl (Comedian)
1941: Helen Reddy (Singer)
1944: Jon
Anderson (Lead Vocals & Keyboards for Yes)
1947: Glenn Tipton (Guitar for Judas Priest)
1951: Richard Lloyd (Guitar & Vocals for
Television)
1955: Matthias Jabs (Guitar for The Scorpions)
1957: Robbie McIntosh (Guitar for The Pretenders)
1959: Christina Amphlett (Singer for Divinyls)
1961: Chad Smith (Drummer for The Red Hot Chili
Peppers)
1968: Speech (Todd Thomas) (Rapper for Arrested
Development)
1970: Ed Robertson (Guitar for Barenaked Ladies)
1981: Austin Winkler (Singer for Hinder)
1984: Katy Perry (Singer / Songwriter)
1985: Ciara (Ciara Princess Harris) (R&B
Singer)
Events
1960: A
17-year-old art student named Keith Richards runs into his old schoolmate, an
economics student named Mick Jagger, at a train station in London. Richards
notices the R&B albums under Jagger's arm, and before long the two form
their first group -- Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys.
1962: The
Beatles give their first-ever radio interview, on Radio Clatterbridge, a
closed-circuit radio station serving Cleaver and Clatterbridge Hospitals in
Wirral, near Liverpool. Paul is quoted as saying "John is, in fact, the
leader of the group."
1964: The
Rolling Stones make their US television debut when they appear on CBS's Ed
Sullivan Show. After screaming fans practically tear the studio seats
apart, Sullivan declares to reporters: "I promise you they'll never be
back on our show. It took me 17 years to build this up, I'm not going to have
it destroyed in a matter of weeks. We won't book any more rock 'n' roll groups.
Frankly, I didn't see the group until the day before the broadcast. I was
shocked when I saw them." The group returns to the program five times.
1968: The New
Yardbirds, soon to be known as Led Zeppelin, make their live concert debut at
England's Surrey University, described on the poster as the "first big
dance of the term."
1968: The double album 'Electric Ladyland' by the
Jimi Hendrix Experience was released. It was also made available as two albums
with changed artwork after complaints about the naked women who were pictured
on the sleeve. The female models were each paid $9 for the photo shoot and
another $9 if they posed completely naked.
1970: Speaking at a US radio conference,
President Nixon asked programmers to ban all songs containing drug references.
1974: Al Green was taking a shower at his Memphis
home when his ex-girlfriend Mary Woodson burst in and poured boiling hot grit
over him. She then shot herself dead. Green suffered second degree burns.
1980: New Order played their debut gig at The
Squat in Manchester, England.
1986: Bon Jovi went to No.1 on the US album chart
with 'Slippery When Wet'. Featuring two US No.1 singles, 'You Give Love A Bad
Name' and 'Livin' On A Prayer'. The album went on to sell over 8 million copies
world wide.
1986: Dire Straits guitarist, singer Mark
Knopfler broke his collarbone after crashing in a celebrity car race before the
Australian Grand Prix.
1991: Bill Graham, concert promoter, was killed in
a helicopter crash.
1995: Cliff
Richard is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, the very first native rock star to
receive the honor.
1997: Johnny
Cash reaches over to pick up a dropped guitar pick at today's concert in Flint,
MI and falls over on stage; apologizing, he reveals to the audience that he is
in the early stages of Parkinson's Disease. The crowd, thinking Cash is joking,
laughs at the comment.
2002: An
arsonist destroys Aretha Franklin's mansion in the suburbs of Detroit, MI. The
criminal is never caught; fortunately, no one is living there at the time.
2004: UK DJ
and producer John Peel died of a heart attack at age 65. He was BBC’s longest-serving radio DJ and the
first DJ to introduce The Ramones, Roxy Music, The Smiths, The Fall, Rod
Stewart, Blur, the Sex Pistols, T. Rex and others to the masses.
2007: Three workers building the set for an Akon
outdoor show at Emory University in Atlanta were taken to hospital after a
canopy fell on top of them. The concert was later cancelled.
