Births
1882: Leopold Stokowski (Conductor)
1924: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (Blues Guitarist)
1938: Hal Galper (Jazz Pianist)
1946: Skip Spence (Guitar for Moby
Grape & Jefferson Airplane)
1958: Les Pattinson (Bass for
Echo And The Bunnymen)
1960: Mick Sweda (Vocals &
Guitar for The Bulletboys)
1961: Kelly Hansen (Vocals for
Hurricane and currently for Foreigner)
1963: Conan O'Brien (Talk show
host)
1964: Mark 'Bez' Berry (Dancer
for Happy Mondays)
1970: Greg Eklund (Drums for
Everclear)
1974: Mark Tremonti (Guitar for
Creed & Alter Bridge)
Events
1957: Buddy Knox is inducted into the Army Reserve, leading
his record label to rush him into the studio to record no less than twenty
follow ups to his hit "Party Doll." None make the charts.
1969: Lulu marries Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees at St. James'
Church, Buckinghamshire, England, a marriage that will last four years. 3,000
fans attend, as do John Lennon's wife, Cynthia, and producer Mickie Most.
1970: While on stage with Led Zeppelin in Phoenix, lead singer
Robert Plant collapses from "exhaustion."
1970: Steel Mill (featuring
Bruce Springsteen) played in the Main Gym at Ocean County College in New
Jersey. Tickets cost $2.00.
1971: The Diana Ross television musical special Diana,
featuring guest stars Jackson 5, Bill Cosby, and Danny Thomas, airs on ABC.
1975: The Alice Cooper television special ‘Welcome To My
Nightmare’ airs on ABC.
1975: An entire crowd of Bay City Rollers fans attempt to
swim across a nearby lake to meet the band at a BBC Radio-sponsored event in
Mallory Park racetrack, Leicestershire, England. 39 fans are brought to the
hospital, four of whom are admitted.
1981: Yes bassist Chris Squire and drummer Alan White begin rehearsals
with the remaining members of Led Zeppelin, leading to rumors of the death of
Yes and the beginning of a new band dubbed XYZ (Ex-Yes and Zeppelin). The
rumored band never materializes, and Yes reforms under their old name for the
hit 1983 album 90125.
1984; Michael Jackson underwent
surgery in a Los Angeles hospital to repair damage done after his hair caught
fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial.
1985: Liberace breaks his own record at Radio City Music
Hall, pulling in two million dollars for his latest engagement.
1985: Wham! Became the
first-ever Western pop act to have an album released in China.
1987: Aretha Franklin scores a #1 US hit with "I Knew
You Were Waiting For Me," a duet with George Michael of Wham! Her first
Number One in 19 years and ten months, it breaks the record for the longest
span between #1 hits.
1988: The accused murderer of reggae legend Peter Tosh,
Dennis "Leppo" Lobban, goes on trial in Jamaica.
1995: Oasis drummer Tony
McCarrol was told by phone that he was being fired from the group. McCarrol
sued the Manchester group for millions in unpaid royalties and in 1996 Oasis
agreed to pay him a one-off sum of $935,000.
1996: Nile
Rodgers was named JT Superproducer of the Year in Japan, and was invited to
perform there with Chic in April of that year. Just before the concert at the
Budokan Arena in Tokyo, Bernard Edwards fell ill, but despite Rodgers'
insistence, he refused to cancel the gig. He managed to perform but had to be
helped at times. After the concert he retired to his hotel room where he was
later found dead by Rodgers. The cause of death was ruled to be pneumonia.
2003: Etta James received a star
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2005: Reebok pulled a UK TV ad
featuring 50 Cent after a mother whose son was shot dead complained it glamorized
gun crime. Lucy Cope, from London went to the Advertising Standards Authority
about the campaign featuring the US rapper. The ASA had been investigating 54
other complaints from viewers over a reference to the rapper having been shot
nine times.
2009: The Black Eyes Peas
started a 12 week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Boom Boom Pow’. The
single was knocked off the No.1 position by the bands next single ‘I Gotta
Feeling’.
2012: Dick Clark died after suffering
a heart attack following a medical procedure at Saint John's Health Center in
Santa Monica, California. He was 82.
