Births
1917: Merle
Travis (Country Singer)
1933: John
Mayall (Blues Artist)
1940: Chuck
Mangione (Jazz Musician)
1940: Denny
Doherty (Singer / Songwriter in The Mamas and The Papas)
1942: Felix
Cavaliere (Vocals & Keyboards in The Rascals)
1947: Ronnie Montrose
(Guitarist)
1951: Barry
Goudreau (Guitar for Boston)
1958: Michael Dempsey (Bass for The
Cure)
1968: Jonathan Knight (New Kids On The Block)
1970: Ed O.G. (Edward Anderson) (Rapper)
1979: The Game
(Jayceon Terrell Taylor) (Rapper)
Events
1959: Bobby
Darin wins the 1959 Grammy Award for Record of the Year for his song "Mack
the Knife," along with the Best New Artist award.
1960: Paul McCartney and
Pete Best were deported from West Germany after being arrested on suspicion of
arson after the hotel room they were staying in mysteriously caught fire. They
were released and deported the next day.
1965: Denver,
CO, declares today "Rolling Stones Day."
1966: Elvis
hears Tom Jones' version of "Green Green Grass Of Home" on the radio
just outside Little Rock, and calls the radio station to hear it several times.
Elvis would eventually cover the song.
1968: For his
cannabis possession charge, John Lennon is fined $360 in a London court. The
judge believes John's explanation that he no longer uses marijuana and had
merely forgotten about the stash. Wife Yoko Ono is entirely cleared of charges.
Lennon is the first Beatle to be charged with such a crime.
1976: Jerry Lee Lewis shot his bass player, Norman
"Butch" Owens, twice in the chest while trying to hit a soda bottle.
Lewis was charged with shooting a firearm within the city limits.
1979: The
original four members of KISS play for the last time together before their
first "breakup” until 1996 when they reunited for a makeup tour.
1979: Keith
Richards' common-law wife, Anita Pallenburg, is cleared of murder in the
shooting death of a male companion found dead in her home in New York state.
1995: Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar married model
Kari Karte in San Francisco.
1997: Whitney Houston pulled out of a concert
sponsored by the Moonies two hours before she was due on stage after finding out
the event was a mass wedding for over 1,000 Moonie couple's. The religious
group said they had no intention of suing providing the singer returned the $1m
fee she had received.
2000: Chuck
Berry's longtime piano player, Johnnie Johnson, sues Chuck, alledging that he
wrote the music for 52 of Berry's classics. The suit was thrown out by a judge
who ruled that the statute of limitations had run out on any claims.
2000: U2's Larry Mullen came to the rescue of
motorcyclist who had been involved in an accident. Larry was driving home when
he saw the motorcyclist who had crashed and stopped to call for help on his
phone and then waited for the ambulance to arrive.
2001: George
Harrison passes away at age 58 after a long battle with lung cancer while
resting at the home of a friend home in Los Angeles. His family's official
statement read, in part: "He left this world as he lived in it, conscious
of God, fearless of death, and at peace, surrounded by family and friends. He
often said, 'Everything else can wait but the search for God cannot wait, and
love one another.'"
2007: Former Lynyrd Skynyrd
drummer Artimus Pyle, a convicted sex offender, was arrested for failing to
properly register a new permanent address. The 59-year-old had pleaded guilty
in 1993 to charges of attempted capital sexual battery by an adult on a victim
younger than 12 and being principal to lewd and lascivious behavior on a child
younger than 16. He was sentenced to eight years of probation.
2009: Susan Boyle's album became
the best-selling debut in UK chart history when it went to No.1 on the UK
chart. The 48 year-old runner-up in ITV's Britain's Got Talent, sold 410,000
copies of ‘I Dreamed a Dream’. Boyle also topped the US charts, setting a
first-week sales record for a female debut album with 701,000 copies sold in
its first week.
