Births
1939: Phil
Everly (Singer in The Everly Brothers)
1943: Janis
Joplin (Singer)
1946: Dolly
Parton (Country Singer)
1947: Rod
Evans (Original Singer for Deep Purple)
1949: Robert
Palmer (Singer for The Power Station & Solo)
1952: Dewey
Bunnell (Vocals & Guitar for America)
1959: Jeff Pilson (Bass for
Dokken, Dio and Foreigner)
1963: Caron Wheeler (Vocals for Soul II Soul
& Solo)
1971: John Wozniak (Vocals & Guitar
for Marcy Playground)
1972: Drea
de Matteo (Adriana on The Sopranos)
1992: Mac Miller (Malcolm McCormick) (Rapper)
Events
1957: Pat
Boone performs at the inaugural ball for President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1957: Johnny
Cash makes his first national television appearance on CBS' Jackie Gleason Show.
1959:
Arbitron ratings reveal that ABC's American
Bandstand is now the nation's most popular daytime show.
1967: Lesley
Gore appears on an episode of ABC's Batman
series, playing Catwoman's sidekick, Pussycat. Gore also sings "California
Nights," her recent single, on the show.
1971:
Prosecutors at Charles Manson's murder trial play a recording of the Beatles'
"Helter Skelter" in deference to the rumor that Manson saw the band's
"White Album" as a blueprint for violent revolution.
1974: Two
Miami shows featuring Bob Dylan and the Band prove so popular that they cause a
nine-mile-long traffic jam. Many ticket holders only get to see half of the
show(s).
1976: Rock promoter
Bill Sargent offers thirty million dollars to the members of the Beatles to
reunite (and is shocked when they decline).
1977: Charlie
Daniels and the Marshall Tucker Band perform for President Jimmy Carter's
inauguration ceremonies.
1978: Johnny Rotten was fired from The Sex
Pistols for 'not being weird enough anymore.'
1980: Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' started a 15-week
run at #1 on the US album chart. The group’s third US #1, it went on to sell
over 23 million copies in the US alone. 'The Wall' is still the third largest
grossing album in the US, behind Michael Jackson’s 'Thriller' and Eagles’
'Greatest Hits'.
1988: Bon Jovi's and Mötley Crüe manager Doc
McGhee pleaded guilty to importing more than 40,000 lb’s of marijuana into the
US from Colombia via a shrimp boat.
1993: The US
Supreme Court rules that Tom Waits can keep all of the $2.5 million awarded him
by a lower court. Waits had sued Frito-Lay for using a soundalike of him in a
1988 snack commercial.
1993:
Fleetwood Mac reunites to perform for President William Jefferson Clinton's
inauguration ceremonies. (Clinton had used the band's 1977 hit "Don't
Stop" as his campaign theme song.)
1994: The
Ninth Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are held in New
York City. Inductees include The Animals, The Band, Duane Eddy, The Grateful
Dead, Elton John, John Lennon, Bob Marley, and Rod Stewart.
1997: Madonna won the Best
Actress award for her role in Evita at the Golden Globe Awards.
1998: American Rockabilly
singer, songwriter Carl Perkins died aged 65 from throat cancer
1999: Bizzy Bone (Bone
Thugs-N-Harmony) went on trial in Columbus, Ohio, on charges that he dragged a
student barber down a flight of stairs.
2006: Soul singer, Wilson
Pickett died in hospital near his Ashburn, Virginia home of a heart attack aged
64.
