Births
1924: Max
Roach (Jazz Drummer)
1943: Jim
Croce (Singer / Songwriter)
1944: Frank
Sinatra Jr. (Son of The Man)
1945: Rod
Stewart (Singer / Songwriter)
1946: Aynsley
Dunbar (Drummer for John Mayall & Jefferson Starship)
1948: Donald
Fagen (Vocals & Keyboards for Steely Dan & Solo)
1953: Pat Benatar (Patricia Mae
Andrzejewski ) (Singer)
1955: Michael Schenker (Guitar for UFO, The Scorpions
& Solo)
1955: Luci Martin (Vocals for Chic)
1956: Shawn Colvin (Singer / Songwriter)
1956: Don Letts (DJ for Big Audio Dynamite)
1959: Curt Kirkwood (Singer & Guitarist for
The Meat Puppets)
1964: Brad Roberts (Lead Singer & Guitar for
Crash Test Dummies)
1978: Matt Roberts (Guitarist for 3 Doors Down)
1978: Brent Smith (Singer for Shinedown)
1979: Chris Smith (Rapper in Kris Kross)
Events
1949: RCA
announces its newest creation, the seven-inch vinyl record to be played at 45
rpm. The "45," as it would soon be known, would become the driving
force of the record business in the early days of rock and roll.
1956: Elvis Presley made his first recordings for
RCA Records at The Methodist television, radio & TV Studios in Nashville.
'Heartbreak Hotel' was one of the songs recorded during this session.
1965:
American promoter Sid Bernstein, having already presented the Beatles at
Carnegie Hall, calls group manager Brian Epstein about a possible Shea Stadium
concert. It would be the first stadium concert by a rock group.
1969: George
Harrison quits the Beatles for a short while, making him the second Beatle to
do so (Ringo had left the group for a brief period a year earlier).
1971: The
suit to officially dissolve the Beatles as a group gets underway in court.
1971: Bob
Dylan appears on an NBC documentary accompanying bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs
on Dylan's "East Virginia Blues" and "Nashville Skyline
Rag."
1976: Blues
legend Howlin' (Chester Burnett) Wolf died from complications of
kidney disease.
1978: The Sex Pistols make their US TV debut on
the show 'Variety'.
1979: Richard
Carpenter of the Carpenters duo enters into rehab in a Topeka, KS facility.
1979: The trial of ex-Sex Pistol, Sid Vicious for
the October 1978 murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, opened in New York
City. Vicious died of a heroin overdose, thereby not living to hear the
verdict.
1984: Cyndi Lauper became the first female
recording artist since Bobbie Gentry in 1967 to be nominated for five Grammy
Awards: Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Performance
(Female), Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
1985: Ted Nugent appeared on TV's "Miami Vice”
as a drug runner.
1997: James
Brown receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2000: Singer Melissa Etheridge announced that
David Crosby was the sperm donor of her two children with girlfriend Julie
Cypher.
2001: American guitarist and songwriter and
founder member of The Cramps Bryan Gregory died after suffering a heart attack
aged 46 at Anaheim Memorial Medical Center, Anaheim, California.
2003: British
and Dutch police recover 500 Beatles master tapes missing since a theft some
thirty or so years earlier.
2005: A woman was suing Gene
Simmons from Kiss for slander, alleging a documentary made her out to be a
"sex-addicted nymphomaniac". Georgeann Walsh Ward, 53, of New York,
said during a VH1 documentary her photo was flashed up as Simmons talked about
his past sexual encounters. Ms Walsh Ward had dated Simmons for three years
when he was a student. In the documentary, Simmons boasted of having sex with
over 4,600 women.
2006: An Australian woman
appeared in court charged with repeatedly stabbing her partner with a pair of
scissors in the back, shoulder and thigh because he played Elvis Presley's song
'Burning Love' over and over again.
2009: Black Eyed Peas singer
Fergie married actor Josh Duhamel at the Church Estates Vineyards in Malibu.
Guests included her bandmate Will.i.am and actress Kate Hudson.
