Births
1951: Bill Gibson (Drums for Huey Lewis and the
News)
1953: Andrew Ranken (Drums for The Pogues)
1956: Aldo Nova (Singer & Guitarist)
1964: Walter Kibby (Vocals & Trumpet
for Fishbone)
1967: Jimmy Kimmel (Talk Show Host)
1969: Bootie Brown (Rapper in
The Pharcyde)
1978: Nikolai Fraiture (Bass for The Strokes)
1990: Jibbs (Jovan
Campbell) (Rapper)
Events
1960: Sammy
Davis Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt, one of the first public celebrity
interracial marriages.
1967: The
Rolling Stones' Brian Jones buys Cotchford Farm, Sussex, England, the former
home of Winnie the Pooh writer A.A. Milne. Statues of Pooh
characters dot the ground.
1968: The
Beatles' Yellow Submarine film premieres in New York.
1969: John
Lennon purchases the island Dorinch off the Ireland coast and invites any
hippie who wishes to live there.
1973: Jerry
Lee Lewis' son Jerry Lee Jr. is killed in a highway accident near Hernando, MS.
The elder Lewis had already lost his only other son, Steven Allen, in a 1962
drowning.
1974: An
imposter posing as Deep Purple guitar player Ritchie Blackmore crashes a
borrowed Porsche in Iowa City, IA, having already conned food and shelter from
several Deep Purple fans.
1975: Hank Williams Jr. undergoes four hours of
plastic and oral surgery at Nashville's Baptist Hospital to repair damages from
a 500-foot fall in an August mountain accident.
1982: Men At Work started a 15-week run at No.1
on the US album chart with their debut album 'Business As Usual', which went on
to sell over five million copies in the US.
1985: New
York's Whitney Museum presents an exhibition celebrating Bob Dylan's 25 years
in the music industry.
1987: Sonny and Cher reunite for a performance on
TV show Late Night with David Letterman.
1990: Patricia Boughton filed a lawsuit against
Rod Stewart claiming that a football he kicked into the crowd during a concert
at Pine Knob Music Theatre had ruptured a tendon in her middle finger. And as a
result the injury had made sex between her and her husband difficult.
1992: 90,000
people attend Elton John's Mexico City concert, his first in the country.
2002: The three surviving member of Led Zeppelin
announced they were re-forming after 22 years for a US stadium tour.
2004: Rap artist Ol' Dirty Bastard, (real name
Russell Jones), collapsed and died at a Manhattan recording studio in New York
aged 35. A spokesman for his record company, said the rapper, had complained of
chest pains, was dead by the time paramedics reached him. ODB was a founding
member of the Wu-Tang Clan in the early 1990s.
2005:
Astronauts on the US space station in orbit around the Earth are woken up today
by Paul McCartney, singing "Good Day Sunshine" live from his concert
in Anaheim, CA.
