Births
1941: Sam
Andrew (Guitar for Big Brother and the Holding Company)
1943: Keith
Richards (Guitar for The Rolling Stones)
1953: Elliot Easton (Guitar for The Cars)
1958: Geordie (Kevin Walker) (Guitar for Killing
Joke)
1959: Daddy G (Grant Marshall) (Singer in Massive
Attack)
1968: Alejandro Sanz (Spanish Singer /
Songwriter)
1970: DMX (Earl
Simmons) (Rapper)
1972: DJ Lethal (Leor
Dimant) (DJ for Limp Bizkit)
1980: Christina
Aguilera (Singer)
Events
1892: Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker
Suite" publicly premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1964: Sam
Cooke's funeral brings 200,000 fans to the A.R. Leak Funeral Home in Chicago,
so many fans that the crush breaks the glass front doors of the parlor. James
Brown, there to pay his respects, is forced to leave in order to avoid the
grieving mob. Ray Charles, who makes it in, sings a stirring version of
"Angels Keep Watching Over Me" for his friend.
1966: Tara
Browne, heir to the Guinness fortune, collides with a bus while driving his
sports car in London's South Kensington district. Reading about the coroner's
report a few days later, John Lennon incorporates the incident into the first
and second verses of his new song, "A Day In The Life."
1968: In San
Francisco, Janis Joplin begins to rehearse with her new group, The Kozmic Blues
Band.
1969: The
New York Times reports that a full three-quarters of the billion-dollar
music industry's revenue is generated by American youth.
1971: Jerry
Lee Lewis divorces his wife Myra Gale Brown, whom he infamously married when
she was 13.
1975: Rod
Stewart officially leaves the Faces to begin a solo career on Atlantic Records.
1982: When
their latest single, "Maneater," hits #1, Hall and Oates officially
surpass the Everly Brothers as the biggest duo of all time.
1983: On his
40th birthday, and with Mick Jagger serving as best man, Keith Richards marries
his longtime girlfriend, model Patti Hansen, in Mexico's Cabo San Lucas.
1984: Madonna's "Like a Virgin was the No. 1 Billboard
Pop Hit. The song was Madonna's first No. 1 hit.
1988: Mike Peters of The Alarm was rushed to
hospital after having his eyes burnt by spotlights during a gig in Chester,
causing the remaining dates on their UK tour to be cancelled.
1991: In a
move that would have widespread implications for the rap industry, Gilbert
O'Sullivan is awarded an injunction against rapper Biz Markie for an unlicensed
sample of Gilbert's "Alone Again (Naturally)" used in Biz's own
"Alone Again."
2003: In Los
Angeles, Michael Jackson is officially charged with seven counts of lewd and
lascivious acts upon a minor for alleged incidents earlier that year at
Jackson's Neverland Ranch. He is also charged with two counts of administering
an "intoxicating agent."
2003:
President George W. Bush awards James Brown and Loretta Lynn with Kennedy
Center Honors in Washington DC.
2008: Paul
Simon is made a member of the Board of Trustees at the prestigious Berklee
College of Music.
