Births
1936: Bobby
Darin (Singer)
1943: Jack
Bruce (John Symon Asher) (Bass
for Cream)
1943: Derek
Leckenby (Lead Guitar in Herman's Hermits)
1945: Gene
Cornish (Guitar in The Rascals)
1952: David Byrne (Guitar & Vocals for The
Talking Heads)
1953: Tom Cochrane (Singer in Red Rider &
Solo)
1956: Steve Hogarth (Lead Singer for Marillion)
1962: C.C. Deville (Bruce Anthony Johannesson) (Guitar
for Poison)
1962: Ian Astbury (Singer & Guitarist for
Southern Death Cult & The Cult)
1964: Eric Peterson (Guitar for
Testament)
1966: Fabrice Morvan (Vocals for Milli Vanilli)
.. or was he??
1966: Mike Inez (Bass for Alice In Chains)
1966: Raphael Saadiq (Raphael Wiggins) (Singer in
Tony! Toni! Tone! & Solo)
1969: Danny Wood (New Kids On The Block)
1973: Shanice (R&B Singer)
1976: Hunter Burgan (Bass for AFI)
1979: Dan Auerbach (Vocals & Guitar for The
Black Keys)
1993: Miranda Cosgrove (Pop Singer)
Events
1938: Duke
Ellington recorded the song "Caravan".
1956: Buddy
Holly visits his optometrist's office to correct his horrible 20/800 vision
with primitive contact lenses, but Buddy hates them, and decides to keep his
signature glasses.
1957: Elvis Presley was rushed to a Los Angles
hospital after swallowing a porcelain cap from one of his front teeth, which
then lodged its-self in one of his lungs.
1959: Jazz
Saxophonist Sidney Bechet died from lung cancer on his sixty-second birthday.
1964: Jan and Dean began recording "Little Old
Lady From Pasadena."
1966: For the
record ninth time in three years, the Kingsmen's hit version of "Louie
Louie" enters the Billboard singles charts.
1968: Elvis
Presley meets with NBC-TV producer Bob Finkel, helming his upcoming Christmas
special and tells him he wants to use this event to reintroduce and prove
himself once again to the rock audience.
1968: On a
publicity tour to promote their new venture, Apple, John Lennon and Paul
McCartney agree to appear on NBC-TV's Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
Unfortunately, Carson is on vacation that week, and his replacement,
sportscaster Joe Garagiola, has almost no idea what to talk about with the pair
(at one point, he actually asks which one of the two is Ringo). Guest Tallulah
Bankhead, for her part, seems to look upon the duo's appearance as an affront
to her Golden Age of Hollywood stardom. The interview is a disaster, cut short
so as to give the appearance that the two lead Beatles have somewhere to go.
The only existing video copy is a three-minute excerpt a fan films by pointing
a video camera at his TV set; fan audio of the entire interview has been widely
bootlegged.
1969: During a UK tour, Fairport Conventions van
crashed on the M1 motorway on the way home from a gig in Birmingham killing the
group's 19 year-old drummer Martin Lamble and Richard Thompson's girlfriend
Jeannie Franklyn.
1970: Crosby,
Stills, Nash and Young release the single "Ohio"
1976: 33 year-old Keith Relf, former lead singer
for The Yardbirds, was electrocuted while tuning a guitar which was not properly
grounded. The accident happened in his West London home where he was found by
his eight year old son, still holding the plugged-in electric guitar.
1985: Ronald
Reagan presents Michael Jackson with a special Presidential Humanitarian Award
at the White House for his work against drunk driving.
1987: Frank
Sinatra, who had played South Africa in the past, suddenly condemns the
apartheid regime publicly, referring to president P.W. Botha as "a
bum."
1988:
Atlantic Records' 40th Anniversary celebration takes place at New York's
Madison Square Garden, featuring appearances from many famous artists on the
label's roster: The Bee Gees, Wilson Pickett, The Rascals, The Coasters,
Emerson Lake and Palmer, Crosby Stills and Nash, Foreigner, Yes, Genesis, and the
event's main attraction, a rare reunion of Led Zeppelin, featuring John
Bonham's son Jason taking over drums for his late father.
1992: The album "Revenge" was released by
KISS. The album featured a new drummer, Eric Singer.
1993:
Christie's auction house in London sells the acoustic guitar on which Elvis
Presley recorded his first Sun single, "That's All Right, Mama" b/w
"Blue Moon Of Kentucky," to an unnamed bidder for $152,000. On the
same day, the US tabloid Weekly World News claims that Elvis Presley has
only recently died.
1997: Mark Morrison was jailed for three months
after threatening a police officer with an electric stun gun, he was also
ordered to pay $600 costs.
1998: Frank
Sinatra died of a heart attack at age 82.
1998: George Michael pled no contest in the Beverly
Hills Municipal Court to committing a lewd act in a park restroom. He was fined
$810, given 80 hours of community service, and ordered to undergo counseling.
2003: Lawyers for Britney Spears and the Skechers
footwear company settled a dispute over a deal for the pop star to market a
line of roller skates and accessories. Spears had filed a $1.5 million breach
of agreement lawsuit against Skechers in December, claiming the company failed
to pay her adequately. Skechers had responded with a $10 million lawsuit,
accusing Spears of fraud and breach of the three-year licensing agreement she
signed in January 2002.
2004: Phil Spector was arrested after getting
into a scuffle with his chauffeur at his California mansion. The 64 year old
record producer was taken into custody and later released after a court date
was set.
2005: A judge in Springfield, Massachusetts,
ordered rapper 50 Cent to stay clean of drugs and take an anger management
course to avoid spending time in jail. The rapper appeared in court charged
with assaulting three women at a concert in 2004 after leaping into the crowd.
2005: Jimmy
Martin (Bluegrass Musician) died of bladder cancer.
2006: Ashton
"Family Man" Barrett, former bassist with Bob Marley's Wailers, loses
a lawsuit alleging that Island Records and Marley's estate have failed to pay
him millions in royalties.
2006: Six weeks after breaking his wrist in a
cross-country motorbike race, country singer Craig Morgan breaks his right leg
in another competition in Vanleer, Tennessee. He finishes the race, but will
have to perform from a wheelchair or crutches for at least six weeks.
2011: Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton are
married at the Don Strange Ranch near Boerne, Texas, in front of Reba McEntire,
Dierks Bentley, Martina McBride and The Bellamy Brothers.
