Births
1944: Bobby
Colomby (Drums for Blood, Sweat and Tears)
1945: Peter
Criss (Drums for KISS)
1948: Alan
Parsons (Keyboards & Vocals for The Alan Parsons Project)
1957: Anita Ward (Disco Singer)
1957: Billy Bragg (Singer & Guitarist)
1957: Mike Watt (Bass for Firehose, The reunited Stooges
& Porno For Pyros)
1966: Chris Robinson (Singer for The Black
Crowes)
1982: David Cook (American Idol Winner)
1990: JoJo (Joanna
Noëlle Blagden Levesque) (Pop Singer)
Events
1957: Elvis
Presley picks up his draft notice.
1967: The
band Jethro Tull, named after the 18th-century inventor of the seed drill, is
formed.
1967: Folk singer Joan Baez was sentenced to 45
days in prison after being arrested during an anti-war demonstration.
1973: After
failing to take medication to protect his heart before a dental visit, Bobby
Darin developed an overwhelming systemic infection, otherwise known as sepsis.
This weakened his body and badly affected one of his heart valves. On December
11, Darin entered Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for surgery to
repair two artificial heart valves he had received in the previous heart
operation back in January 1971. On December 19, a five-man surgical team worked
for over six hours to repair Darin's damaged heart. Darin died minutes
afterward in the recovery room on December 20, 1973, at the age of 37.
1975: Former
James Gang guitarist/vocalist and solo artist Joe Walsh joins the Eagles,
replacing Bernie Leadon, who left after the band decided to pursue a more
"rock" sound.
1980: Motorhead's Drummer Phil Taylor
accidentally broke a bone in his neck when partying after a gig in Belfast.
1983: Johnny Cash checks into the Betty Ford
Center to prevent an addiction to pain-killers administered during a recent
hospital stay. He stays at the center for six weeks and is assigned to kitchen
duty for three of them. Elizabeth Taylor is also in treatment.
1994: Beach
Boys lead vocalist Mike Love publicly drops his lawsuit against the group. Love
had claimed he was due partial royalties on 35 Beach Boys classics; the suit
was settled out-of-court.
2001: Tommy Lee branded his
ex-wife Pam Anderson an unfit mother. The drummer filed papers with the Los
Angeles Superior Court alleging his son's tell him 'We hate Mommy' and his son
Brandon had been using the F-word he learned from his mommy.
2006: Eminem and his high school
sweetheart divorced for a second time, less than a year after they remarried.
The couple agreed to share custody of their 10-year-old daughter, Hailie. The
pair told a judge in Michigan they understood this time the divorce was final.
The couple remarried in January. But the rapper filed for divorce less than
three months later, saying there had been "a breakdown in the marriage
relationship".
2009: Carrie Underwood gets engaged to Ottawa hockey player
Mike Fisher at his home in Ontario.
