Births
1960: Rick
Savage (Bass for Def Leppard)
1968: Nate Mendel (Bass for Foo Fighters)
1970: Treach (Anthony
Criss) (Rapper in Naughty By Nature)
1978: Nelly Furtado (Singer)
1978: Brian Chase (Drums for Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs)
1981: Britney Spears (Singer)
1983: Jana Kramer (Country Singer)
Events
1959: Bobby
Darin is the subject of this week's episode of NBC'S This Is Your Life.
1964: Ringo
Starr checks into the University College Hospital in London to have his tonsils
removed.
1967: Jimmie
Rodgers is found with a fractured skull in his car on the San Diego Freeway,
the result of a "mysterious assualt." He recovers fully, but his
career never does.
1969: In
Bristol, England, George Harrison joins the Delaney and Bonnie and Friends tour
as a guitarist, making this the first tour of a Beatle since 1966.
1969: Cindy
Birdsong of the Supremes is kidnapped by a maintenance worker in her Hollywood
apartment, who, while holding a knife to her throat, forces her to tie up her
two visiting friends. He then forces her into a car and drives toward Long
Beach, but the singer jumps from the car and escapes. The kidnapper was
arrested in Las Vegas four days later.
1971: Taj
Mahal performs for the men on death row at Wilmington State Penitentiary.
1973: The Who
and their companions are jailed overnight in Montreal following $6000 worth of
hotel destruction inflicted after their show at the Forum.
1979: Singers
Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge are granted a divorce.
1979: Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand's ‘You
Don't Bring Me Flowers’ was at No.1 on the US singles chart. A radio station
engineer had spliced together Neil's version with Barbra's version and got such
good response, the station added it to their play list. When Neil Diamond was
told about it, he decided to re-record the song with Streisand herself.
1983: MTV aired the full 14-minute version of
Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' video for the first time.
1986: Jerry
Lee Lewis checks into the Betty Ford Clinic for addiction to painkillers.
1988: Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, and Willie Nelson
appeared on "Geraldo" to discuss "Sex on the Road."
1991: The US
Supreme Court rules that the Shirelles, Gene Pitney and B.J. Thomas are owed
$1.2 million in unpaid royalties.
1996: Adam Duritz (Singer for
Counting Crows) severed a ligament and tore cartilage in his knee after he fell
during a concert at the Beacon Theatre in New York. Duritz underwent
orthoscopic surgery during the band's Christmas break.
2000: Thieves broke into the
London home Madonna shares with Guy Ritchie. The raiders forced their way in
through a basement door then took a set of car keys before loading up Guy
Ritchie's car with some of the couple's possessions and driving off.
2000: The Smashing Pumpkins
played their final concert when they appeared at the Metro Club in Chicago.
2002: Oasis singer Liam
Gallagher was arrested and charged with assault after he Kung-Fu kicked a
police officer. The incident happened at the Bayerischer hotel in Munich, the
singer lost his two front teeth in the brawl and an Oasis bodyguard was knocked
out cold.
