Births
1905: Bob
Wills (Country Artist)
1923: Wes
Montgomery (Jazz Guitarist)
1937: Domingo
Samudio (Singer for Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs)
1944: Mary
Wilson (Singer for The Supremes)
1946: David
Gilmour (Guitar & Vocals for Pink Floyd)
1947: Kiki
Dee (Singer)
1964: Wayne Gacy (Stephen Bier)(Keyboards for
Marilyn Manson)
1970: Chris Broderick (Lead
Guitar for Megadeth)
1974: Beanie Sigel (Dwight Grant) (Rapper)
1974: Guy Garvey (Singer for Elbow)
1977: Bubba Sparxxx (Warren Anderson Mathis ) (Rapper)
Events
1958: Sam
Cooke begins his first residency as a performer at the legendary Copacabana
club in New York, but much like Elvis' 50s attempt at Vegas, supper club
audiences prove not quite ready for Cooke's brand of proto-soul.
1962: Frank
Sinatra records "I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues," his last release
for Capitol Records before recording exclusively for his own label, Reprise.
1964: After
rumors swirl of a torrid off-screen romance with co-star Richard Burton on the
set of her latest movie, Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor is divorced by her
fourth husband, Eddie Fisher.
1970: On
trial for his role in the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders, Charles Manson
assembles a collection of home recordings to help pay for legal expenses.
Entitled LIE, the cover mocks a typical Life magazine cover.
1973: New
York City immigration director Sol Marks orders John Lennon's visa extension
canceled after just five days.
1973: UK
promoters reach out to Colonel Tom Parker in order to get Elvis Presley to make
his first appearance in the country, at London's Earl's Court, but Parker, a
Dutch immigrant secretly in the US illegally, declines on fears that his status
would be discovered.
1977: Diana
Ross' second TV special, entitled simply An Evening With Diana Ross, airs
on NBC.
1982: Dick
Clark donates his original American Bandstand podium to the Smithsonian.
1989: Smokey
Robinson published his first biography, Inside My Life, in which he
reveals for the first time that he once struggled with an addiction to crack.
1989: Steven
Tyler of Aerosmith becomes the proud parent of his third child, Chelsea Anna.
1998: Oasis singer Liam Gallagher appeared
handcuffed in a Brisbane court on charges of head butting a fan during a gig in
Australia. Gallagher was released on bail.
1999: George Jones is seriously injured in a
one-car accident while driving home in Nashville. The wreck occurs while Jones
tries to play his next single, "Choices," for his stepdaughter via
cell phone. Authorities later find an opened vodka bottle in the car.
2000: With
his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, Eric
Clapton becomes the first person inducted three times. (His first two
inductions came as members of the Yardbirds and Cream.)
2000: Foxy Brown crashed her car into a fence in
Brooklyn, NY. She was admitted for medical attention and released the next
morning. Brown was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle by
police.
2004: While
checking out of his New York hotel, David Crosby leaves behind a bag containing
marijuana and an unlicensed handgun; when he returns for the bag, he is nabbed
by police, but is soon released on $3,500 bail.
2007: Having
had his father's body exhumed and examined by doctors, Jay Richardson, son of
J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, confirms that no foul play took
place aboard the plane which crashed in 1959, killing Richardson, Ritchie
Valens, and Buddy Holly.
2010: R&B singer D'Angelo
was arrested at the wheel of his Range Rover after trying to pay $40 for sex
with an undercover police officer posing as a prostitute. The incident happened
in New York City.
