Births
1913: Muddy
Waters (Blues Artist)
1928: Maya Angelou (Poet)
1942: Clive
Davis (Music Producer)
1939: Hugh
Masekela (Jazz Trumpeter)
1939: Major
Lance (R&B Singer)
1946: Dave
Hill (Lead Guitar for Slade)
1948: Berry
Oakley (Bassist for The Allman Brothers)
1948: Pick
Withers (Drummer for Dire Straits)
1952: Gary
Moore (Guitarist for Thin Lizzy & Solo)
1951: Pete
Haycock (Guitar & Vocals for Climax Blues Band)
1958: Peter Baltes (Bass for Accept)
1959: Nigel Preston (Drums for The Cult)
1962: Craig Adams (Bass for Sisters Of Mercy
& The Cult)
1963: David Gavurin (Guitarist for The Sundays)
1966: Mike Starr (Bass for Alice In Chains)
1970: Josh Todd (Lead Singer for Buckcherry)
1972: Magnus Sveningsson (Bass for The Cardigans)
1972: Jill Scott (R&B Singer)
1974: Andre Dalyrimple (Singer in Soul For Real)
Events
1939: Glenn
Miller recorded "Moonlight Serenade".
1956: Elvis Presley played the
first of two nights in San Diego Arena in San Diego, California. The local
Police chief issued a statement saying if Elvis ever returned to the city and
performed like he did, he would be arrested for disorderly conduct.
1960: RCA
Victor decides to release all future singles -- starting with its next, Elvis
Presley's "Stuck On You" -- in both mono and stereo versions.
1960: Elvis Presley recorded "Are You
Lonesome Tonight."
1960: At
tonight's Academy Awards, Frank Sinatra's "High Hopes" (from the
comedy A Hole In The Head) wins
the Oscar for Best Original Song.
1964: The
Beatles break all American chart records when the latest Billboard chart shows
them with the Top Five records in the country simultaneously (#5: "Please Please
Me," #4: "I Want To Hold Your Hand," #3: "She Loves
You," #2: "Twist And Shout," #1: "Can't Buy Me Love").
Even more incredibly, nine other singles are scattered in various other
positions around the "Hot 100." The Beatles had similarly dominated
Canada and Australia's Top Ten earlier in the month.
1964: A court
orders the Trashmen of "Surfin' Bird" fame to pay royalties to
Beechwood Music, holder of the copyright for the Rivington's 1962 hit
"Papa Oom Mow Mow," which the Trashmen hit borrows heavily from.
1967: Paul
McCartney advises Beatles PR man Derek Taylor, currently producer of the
upcoming Monterey Pop Festival, to consider this new guitar phenomenon he's
seen named Jimi Hendrix.
1968: After
hearing about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis,
riots break out in several black communities across the nation. In Boston,
where James Brown is scheduled to perform, mayor Kevin White asks the singer to
call for calm on stage and urge Bostonians not to riot. Meanwhile, at New York
City's New Generation club, Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Al Kooper, Buddy Guy, Ted
Nugent, and Joni Mitchell respond by gathering for an all-night jam in tribute.
1970: Janis
Joplin reunites with Big Brother and the Holding Company in San Francisco for a
one-off reunion concert.
1970: Crosby Stills Nash & Young went to No.1
on the US album chart with Deja Vu. The first album which saw Neil Young
joining Crosby, Stills and Nash featured three US Top 40 singles: 'Teach Your
Children', 'Our House' and 'Woodstock.'
1973: A taped
Elvis Presley concert entitled Elvis:
Aloha From Hawaii is telecast on NBC and proves to be a huge success.
The total worldwide audience for the show, the first commercial worldwide
satellite broadcast, amounts to over a billion people.
1977: British CBS released the Clash's
self-titled first album.
1983: Danny
Rapp (Danny and the Juniors) died in 1983 of an apparent suicide by gunshot in
a hotel in Arizona.
1996:
Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia's ashes are scattered in the Ganges River in
India by Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir and Garcia's widow, Deborah.
1996: While
on parole, R&B singer Wilson Pickett is arrested for possession of two
grams of cocaine at his home in Englewood, NJ.
2000: Diana Ross announced that she would reunite
with the Supremes. The two members of the Supremes at the time had joined after
Ross had left the trio.
2002: It was announced that the 19-year-old band
Megadeth had broken up. The break up was due to an injury to Dave Mustaine's
left arm and hand that had left him unable to play guitar.
2003: The
Rolling Stones make their stage debut in India, performing at Bangalore Palace
in the middle of a monsoon!
2005: A man
who won an out-of-court settlement in 1994 against the singer for a similar
charge testifies in Michael Jackson's current molestation trial.
2007: A Swedish couple ran into trouble with
authorities after trying to name their baby Metallica. Michael and Karolina
Tomaro went to court with the country's National Tax Authority about naming
their daughter after the rock band. The six-month-old has been baptised
Metallica, but tax officials said the name was "inappropriate". Under
Swedish law, both first names and surnames need to win the approval of
authorities before they can be used.
2008: Beyonce Knowles married Jay-Z at his New
York apartment. Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and wife Gwyneth Paltrow and
Beyonces former bandmates in Destiny's Child, Kelly Rowland and Michelle
Williams all attended the private ceremony.
