Births
1903: Earl
"Fatha" Hines (Jazz Pianist)
1915: Pops
Staples (R&B Singer in The Staple Singers)
1921: Johnny
Otis (Pop Singer)
1922: Stan Lee (Comic Writer)
1946: Edgar
Winter (Keyboards & Vocals for Edgar Winter Group)
1948: Ziggy
Modeliste (Drummer for The Meters)
1950: Alex
Chilton (Guitar & Vocals for The Box Tops, Big Star & Solo)
1953: Richard Clayderman (Pianist)
1958: Joe Diffie (Country Artist)
1960: Marty Roe (Singer in Diamond Rio)
1971: Anita Dels (Singer for 2 Unlimited)
1978: John Legend (John Stephens) (R&B Singer
/ Songwriter & Pianist)
Events
1963: The
magazine The New Yorker publishes an interview with Beatles manager
Brian Epstein in their "Talk Of The Town" column about the band's
upcoming Ed Sullivan gig -- the first major press the group has received
in the US.
1964: African
trumpeter Hugh Masekela is a featured guest on CBS-TV's game show To Tell
The Truth.
1965: Elvis
Presley, surrounded by friends including Larry Geller, "drops" LSD
for the first time at Graceland, joined by girlfriend Priscilla Beaulieu. After
staring at each others' distorted faces, the tropical fish in his aquarium,
and, the next day, at dew drops on the breathing grass, both decide that they'd
be risking their sanity to try the drug again.
1968: The
first major rock concert on the East Coast, the Miami Pop Festival, takes
place, a three-day affair featuring Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, The Turtles, Joni
Mitchell, Procol Harum, Steppenwolf, Canned Heat, Iron Butterfly, The McCoys,
Fleetwood Mac, The Box Tops, Three Dog Night, Pacific Gas and Electric, and The
Grateful Dead.
1972: Mick
Jagger visits Managua, Nicaragua with his wife Bianca, searching for her mother
after a devastating recent earthquake that claimed thousands of lives.
Fortunately, Bianca's mother is fine.
1975: Ted
Nugent has a .44 Magnum gun pulled on him at a concert in Spokane, WA, until
the man is wrestled to the ground by security.
1983: Dennis
Wilson (Drummer for The Beach Boys) drowned at Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles,
after drinking all day and diving in the afternoon to recover items he had
thrown overboard at the marina from his yacht three years prior.
1992: Paul
Simon is the proud parent of his second son, Adrian Edward, with mother (and
singer) Edie Brickell.
1993: Canadian singer Shania Twain married record
producer Mutt Lange. The couple had separated in 2008 after 14 years of
marriage.
1993: Billy Ray Cyrus marries Leticia Finley at
home in Williamson County, Tennessee. "One cannot stand at the crossroads
forever," says Cyrus, who dresses for the ceremony in blue jeans and a
cut-up sweatshirt.
1998: Atlanta
Rhythm Section vocalist Ronnie Hammond is shot and slightly wounded in a
scuffle with police in Macon, GA, after allegedly attempting to assault an
officer with a hammer and, then, a broken guitar neck. officers had been
responding to a suicide attempt call concerning the singer (the second in the
same month).
2000: Waylon
Jennings holds a three-day-long estate sale at his home in Dixon, IL, offering
up, amongst other artifacts, a motorbike that once belonged to Buddy Holly.
2002:
Cambodia deports Gary Glitter and extradites him back to the UK to face a
conviction in London on child pornography charges.
2003: Pete
Townshend of The Who reveals to a London newspaper that he seriously considered
suicide after a 2002 arrest for child pornography charges. The guitarist had
claimed he was visiting child porn websites as research for a book dealing with
his own sexual abuse as a child.
2003: Michael
Jackson gives an emotional interview to CBS-TV's 60 Minutes, his first
since being arrested on child molestation charges, claiming, "Before I
would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists."
2010: Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman have a daughter, Faith
Margaret Kidman Urban, born through a surrogate mother at Nashville's Centennial
Medical Center.
