Births
1915: Brownie
McGhee (Blues Singer)
1929: Dick
Clark (DJ)
1943: Rob
Grill (Lead Singer for The Grass Roots)
1945: Roger
Glover (Bass for Deep Purple)
1953: Shuggie
Otis (Singer / Songwriter)
1953: June Pointer (Singer in The Pointer Sisters
& Solo)
1955: Billy Idol (William Broad) (Singer in
Generation X & Solo)
1957: John Ashton (Guitar for The Psychedelic
Furs)
1958: Stacey Q (Stacey Lynn Swain) (Pop Singer)
1959: Cherie
Currie (Singer for The Runaways)
1968: Des’ree (Desirée Annette Weeks) (R&B Singer)
1973: John Moyer (Bass for Disturbed)
1975: Mindy McCready (Country Singer)
1978: Clay Aiken (Singer)
Events
1940: Desi
Arnaz marries Lucille Ball.
1954: Nat
"King" Cole begins a six-night run at Harlem's Apollo theater.
1959: In a Billboard
article, DJ Alan Freed claims that his career has gone "down the
drain" due to the recent "payola" scandal.
1963: The Beatles second album 'With The Beatles'
became the first million selling album by a group in the UK. The album stayed
at the top of the charts for 21 weeks, displacing Please Please Me, so that The
Beatles occupied the top spot for 51 consecutive weeks.
1969: NBC
airs Simon and Garfunkel's Songs Of America special, even after sponsor
AT&T backs out over the show's plan to show footage of the Bobby Kennedy
funeral and the Vietnam war.
1969: The Monkees made what would be their last
live appearance for 15 years when they played at The Oakland Coliseum,
California.
1977: David
Bowie appears on Bing Crosby's 42nd (and last) Christmas special on CBS. The
two sing a medley of "Little Drummer Boy" and "Peace On
Earth."
1982: Michael Jackson's
'Thriller' album was released. It spent 190 weeks on the album charts became
the biggest selling pop album of all time, with sales over 50 million copies.
1988: LL Cool J performed the
first rap concert held in Africa.
1991: Milli Vanilli singer Rob
Pilatus attempted suicide while staying at The Mondrain Hotel, Los Angeles by
taking an overdose of sleeping pills and slashing his wrists.
1994: Tupac Shakur was shot five
times during a robbery outside a New York City recording studio.
1996: While
playing at a Gala Benefit at The Woman's Club of Minneapolis, Tiny Tim
had a heart attack and died.
1997: Chumbawamba's Danbert Nobacon was arrested
by Italian police for wearing a skirt and was detained in police cells
overnight.
2003: A block of East 2nd Street in New York City
was officially renamed Joey Ramone Place. It is the block where Joey once lived
with band mate Dee Dee Ramone, and is near the music club CBGB, where the
Ramones played their first gigs.
2005: Police were investigating claims that
Michael Jackson was trafficking drugs to feed his 40 pills-a-day habit. The
singer was suspected of flying antidepressants and painkillers from the US to
his current home in Bahrain.
